In the front of human pride, you can only be saved by faith in Christ who was crucified. Unrighteous guilty sinners are only righteous by race. By his death and resurrection, he's smashing the serpent. The line is drawn in the sand, Christ is gone and he's man upon the rock of the Word of God,. We will stand, we bring the antithesis, the lamb's dripping wrists, is still the only answer for man's wickedness.
What’s in a name?
In the past, when Christians talked about Jesus, it was safe to assume we were talking about the son of God become man who conquered death to save the lost. You know, the person the Bible’s about.
But with the rise of liberal theology in the 19th and 20th centuries, that meaning began to change. At least for some people. Christ, liberal theologians said, might be better understood as an idea, a metaphor, or a good example, rather than the sinless supernatural savior who accomplished our redemption in the first century.
This was J. Gresham Machen’s line in the sand in 1923. If we don’t worship the same Christ, Machen said, we don’t have the same religion.
Politics. Technology. Identity. Power. Science. Everything seems to be changing. So why not faith?
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