Excellent articles from ICR's "Acts & Facts" this month:
"Balaam's Error And Today's Evangelicals" by Henry Morris III, D.Min. *
Excerpts:
How do “good” people become “enemies of the cross of Christ” (Philippians 3:18)?
The battle is fought and won or lost in our mind. Circumstances, feelings, popular acceptance, and even miraculous signs are all subject to deceptive manipulation and distortion. Our minds can be deceived (2 Corinthians 11:3).
All of that pales into insignificance when we begin to grasp the insidious inroads of compromising Bible teachers in the seminaries and in parachurch organizations across this nation. Two fundamental positions emerge from analysis of the writings, blogs, and teachings of those who knowingly embrace a hybridizing of God’s foundational truths:
- The message of Scripture must be subject to the “discoveries” of science, philosophy, psychology, history, logic, or academic analysis and scholarship.
- The Bible, therefore, cannot (indeed must not) be taken as a literal or historically accurate document. All of the biblical text must be “interpreted” in light of a theological system, scholarly historical analysis, or “proven” science.
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* Dr. Morris is Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Creation Research. Morris III, H. 2011. Balaam’s Error and Today’s Evangelicals. Acts & Facts. 40 (8): 4-6.
For the entire article go here. Dr. Morris also explains how to solve this growing dilemma.
ICR, while engaged in science and research, its fundamentally doctrinal in nature, starting with a high view of Scripture and testing everything including science, theories, books, "evangelical" teachers/pastors, and academia, by It. I really appreciate their stand to not only deal with science, but most importantly deal with doctrinal issues especially the authority of Scripture above everything and using it in our daily lives. They also have a daily devotional called "Days of Praise".
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