Machin's Great Wisdom

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Call it Christian if it essentially is godless Christianity is based on events God accomplished Christ was sent to bring redemption, he promised. You can only be saved by faith in Christ, who is crucified Our greatest needs to be redeemed by the Son It's quite clear Christ was changing Machin partly Any bigotry left, it's not there any longer Perfected now in the presence of his father. We will stand, we bring the antithicence, the lamb's dripping rest This is still the only answer for man's wickedness. Will YOU please heal the world? You arekid spots She Ap Suit Krisper

Losing is never fun. And it’s even less fun when the New York Times is paying attention. But by 1929 that’s what had happened. J. Gresham Machen had lost the fight against liberalism at Princeton seminary. Even after reading Machen’s warning in Christianity and Liberalism, the Presbyterian church voted to reorganize Princeton to allow liberal theology on faculty.

That would’ve been the perfect time to pack it in. But for Machen the fight had never been about Princeton. True Christian doctrine could never belong to a single organization, no matter how influential. So Machen did what any God fearing independently wealthy bachelor would do. He quit, poached Princeton’s best faculty, and started his own seminary.

Politics. Technology. Identity. Power. Science. Everything seems to be changing. So why not faith?

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