tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post1197520516503997755..comments2024-02-27T03:28:22.684-06:00Comments on In Defense of the Gospel: Dr. Rick Flanders, The Wrong ChangeLou Martuneachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683967904677815711noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-57665000226470783062013-04-19T23:40:48.195-05:002013-04-19T23:40:48.195-05:00Bro. Flanders has well articulated the truth in th...Bro. Flanders has well articulated the truth in this article. Sadly, those who have tasted at the fount of the world disguised as "Christian" and have had their senses enlivened are too inebriated to differentiate between the spiritual and the sensual.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924581374605153929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-57987933090041756212013-04-19T16:18:40.006-05:002013-04-19T16:18:40.006-05:00That was very well said Patrick and I needed to se...That was very well said Patrick and I needed to see it put so simply. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-12931386121351782372013-04-19T14:12:04.183-05:002013-04-19T14:12:04.183-05:00I grew up with Rock Music. I like it.Love it even....I grew up with Rock Music. I like it.Love it even. Unfortunately, just because I like something,doesn't make it right. You can rebrand the golden calf "the Lord" but it doesn't change it from being a false god. You can rebrand Rock music CCM, doesn't change it from what it is. Ungodly music designed to stir up the passions of the flesh. Patrick Heeneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-14114991762589539742013-04-19T12:35:35.998-05:002013-04-19T12:35:35.998-05:00Lou,
I would like to focus some attention on this...Lou,<br /><br />I would like to focus some attention on this quote from Dr. Flanders, "They say that critics of the change are against it really because they don’t like the music, and the discussion is ultimately about what kind of church music one prefers."<br /><br />So then if someone who once advocated for only "traditional" sacred music publicly makes a rather sudden change to CCM, how can it be that they developed so quickly a taste for CCM having previously rejected it?<br /><br />Likewise, if someone were to "discover" that wine is now acceptable for the believer, what would we make of the fact that seemingly overnight he had a favorites list of wines, consumed it on a regular basis, and was inviting others to take a sip?<br /><br />I believe that these public changes are actually only an aligning of the lips with where the heart has always been.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-37160208135742922662013-04-19T12:33:46.818-05:002013-04-19T12:33:46.818-05:00Lou, Found this on http://www.itib.org/believe.htm...Lou, Found this on http://www.itib.org/believe.html. <br /><br />The Committee on the Definition of Fundamentalism<br /><br />Bob Jones III<br />Jack P. Manly<br />Ian R.K. Paisley<br />David D. Yearick<br /><br />A FUNDAMENTALIST IS A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHO:<br /><br />1. Maintains an immovable allegiance to the inerrant, infallible, and verbally inspired Bible;<br /><br />2. Believes that whatever the Bible says is so;<br /><br />3. Judges all things by the Bible and is judged only by the Bible;<br /><br />4. Affirms the foundational truths of the historic Christian Faith:<br /><br />a. The doctrine of the Trinity,<br /><br />b. The incarnation, virgin birth, substitutionary atonement, bodily resurrection and glorious ascension, and Second Coming of the Lord<br /> Jesus Christ,<br /><br />c. The new birth through regeneration by the Holy Spirit,<br /><br />d. The resurrection of the saints to life eternal,<br /><br />e. The resurrection of the ungodly to final judgment and eternal death,<br /><br />f. The fellowship of the saints, who are the body of Christ;<br /><br />5. Practices fidelity to that Faith and endeavors to preach it to every creature;<br /><br />6. Exposes and separates from all ecclesiastical denial of that Faith, compromise with error, and apostasy from the Truth; and<br /><br />7. Earnestly contends for the Faith once delivered.<br /><br />Len Peelernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-79003381618735802013-04-19T10:55:44.004-05:002013-04-19T10:55:44.004-05:00The wisdom and clarity contained in this essay is ...The wisdom and clarity contained in this essay is stunningly disregarded by the new delinquent and narcissistic Christian culture which embodies juvenile thinking and juvenile theology that seems to have arrived in tsunami form, though in fact it is a hold in the dam which is breaching at exponential speed.<br /><br />As pointed out, Judge Bork got it and he wasn't a an independent baptist fundamentalists (of which I am not as well) nor even a fundamentalists. He demonstrates that even away from theology, the prima facie nature of the issue provides self-evident and easily discoverable principles.<br /><br />But for those of us professing salvation, hence the wisdom of the Scriptures, to argue as more ignorant than even basic principles of human observation, testifies to the wholly depraved nature of such a theology.<br /><br />It is a child who protests that unless obviously and plainly stated in Scripture, he or she is not bound by it as if there is no such thing beyond our understanding of God's formula for our lives in his Word outside of elementary and direct statements therefore everything else is debatable. What childishness is this?<br /><br />The spiritually and theologically mature believer understands principles contained and observable in texts and examples that are not necessarily directly stated but communicated nevertheless.<br /><br />Rick Flanders summed it up with a single identifier which best describes the underlying impetus of all of the introduction of contemporarism, namely "entertainment". <br /><br />Change is right when theologically driven but this is not, it is anthropologically driven and will only result in a spiritual lessening and deadening, not a spiritual enlivenment though in ignorance many will imagine their senses, now being entertained, is spiritual enlivenment.Alex A. Guggenheimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04534710796711749227noreply@blogger.com