War With Truth

I've found so many insights from Shindler and Spurgeon in "The Downgrade Contraversy" that I've decided I'd like to start posting quotes from there.

It amazes me at how timely the words are even today. Spurgeon fought Modernism. We fight Post-Modernism.

Any age you pick, liberalism is still liberalism. Error still recoils at Truth. Rebels still declare war on the Truth.

We are in the Second Downgrade Contraversy. Ken Silva at Apprising Ministries calls it the New Downgrade Contraversy. Either way, its the fight agaist truth.

It is the War On the Word.

It is headed up by pastors, elders, seminary professors, authors, and conference speakers. Spurgeon called them in his day, " the captains in this unholy war with truth." They were clergymen and pastors who espoused Arianism. Others would embrace Socianism. The weapon of such monstrosity were within the church (and seminary) walls. This downgrade from truth to error started at the top, as it always does. As it does today. When people study a broad spectrum of views, they open their minds to error and become desensitized to the horror of falsity, ending up either seeing error as optional or embracing it whole-heartedly,

As the shepherd goes, so goes the sheep, Spurgeon reminds us.

And so it goes today. Schuller, Warren, Driscoll. Liberal Reformed Theology. The Pagan-Friendly Movement. The Emergent Church Movement. One thing they have in common: a low view of Scripture and therefore of God, and a high view of man. This is perversion and God will have none of it.

So from time to time, as we deal with the Driscolls, Warrens, Pipers, as well as the movements mentioned above, I would like to offer prudent quotes from The Downgrade Contraversy.

To close I leave with this from The Down Grade, First Article, March 1887, Sword and Trowel:

"These facts furnish a lesson for the present times, when, as in some cases, it is all too plainly apparent men are willing to forego the old for the sake of the new. But commonly it is found in theology that that which is true is not new, and that which is new is not true.

In another paper we propose to trace "the down grade" course among other Protestants in this country—a sad piece of business, but one which must needs be done. Oh that it might act as a warning to the unsettled and unsettling spirits of our own day!"