Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Antichrist: Making the Devil's World a Better Place for Me and You

American Christians have always seemed to get caught up in culture wars. The binding of fundamentalists and evangelicals to political parties like the Republicans in the past, or the Younger Evangelicals to the Democrats later on, and now these Christians getting caught up in pc culture and social justice makes me wonder if Americanity, like a Chameleon, can't divorce itself from turning the color of its culture simply because it cannot distinguish the kingdom from the culture. If everyone is my neighbor, everyone an image of God, a child of God, in the brotherhood of man, then the culture is the kingdom to be straightened out by the Law that normally would function in its third use to straighten out Christians in the church and for the church. Preaching the gospel to the culture should be the goal of the church, not making culture look like the church without the gospel, i.e., without Christ. But, again, if the lines are made so fuzzy because Christ is not the only way to the Father (one has some positive relationship with God through those other means), then there simply can be no escape. "Christianity" will be continually syncretized with whatever cultural flavor of the month the societies in which it resides are devouring.

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