The Evangelical Movement - Part 2

Arguing Over Dead Details

Another symptom of evangelicals is their reliance upon "systematic" doctrinal teachings in the form of "commentaries" written by men who have passed on (polite term for dead). These are very detailed writings about the lives of individuals recorded in the bible and/or about individual books of the bible, written in past centuries. These may have been Godly men who had the "word of the Lord" for their generation, but that was then and this is now.

Evangelicals use these writings/authors as foundations for arguments/debates between themselves and by doing so continue to show forth their babyhood/immaturity. All this is ABOUT CHRIST-it is shadow and not substance and goes into the head and puffs up intellect, not affecting one's life or increase one's faith. It is the fulfillment of 1Tim 6:3-5

"....if anyone does otherwise teach and does not adhere to healthful discourses (life changing), those of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the teaching that is according to Godliness, he is be clouded (walking in fog-blind), knowing nothing rightly, but is diseased (poisoned-infected) about questionings and word battles - out of which spring envy, strife, defamation (calling of names), wicked surmisings (questioning thoughts and motives of others), incessant quarelling of men wholly corrupt in their mind and bereft of the truth-supposing Godliness to be a means of gain (a method of one upmanship-getting the upper hand in arguments and debates)!" - (Rotherham) -

All this began just after the apostles passed on, among the group called "church fathers", who engaged each other with pen and ink, hurling around the word "heretic" at each other: arguing about Christ's divinity; whose letters were and were not "inspired", etc. It continues down to today.

Who is Going to Smoke in a Graveyard?

Another symptom of evangelicalism is the exaltation, pedestal placing, idolatrous worship and deference to/of the "christian celebrities" of the past. They look down their noses at romanism and it's exaltation and so called "canonization" of those it calls "saints", while simultaneously doing the same thing with their "heroes of the faith". This is nothing more than ancestor worship. They exalt the people, but not the God who was in those people. The evangelical is "seeking the living among the dead" and there is no life changing truth there, only information. Even Paul said he and the other apostles were not special; merely instruments and vessels whom God used at that founding age. Jesus said the disciples were not to "lord it over " one another, but were equal brothers.