The Power of a Sinless Christ Atonement

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Berean: A lot of people are quick to assume that what someone says on a podcast is true, but they're not like the Berean who goes back and checks what the scripture actually say. We don't do that as me and my Bible, and I'm going to figure out what the text really means even though 2000 years have passed of thinking about these things. It's an attitude of approaching the text as the thing about which I ponder and conform my thinking in dialogue with the historic church or creeds and confessions. This then is the pattern for critical thinking about how this applies to me and to my church.

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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Music: “Line in the Sand (C&L)” by Timothy Brindle Produced by Nobody Special Wrath and Grace Records Music Licensing Codes: G80CW5LAONGBUAXB BYDTC3Y8K96ACYJ2