Liberal Theology In The Churches – Address Number 3 Series

LIBERAL THEOLOGY IN THE CHURCHES – ADDRESS NUMBER 3

Liberal theology is a mixture of intellectualism, unbelief, and demonic attack. {{1Timothy 4:1-2 “the spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron.”}}

It is Satan’s force against the bible and any of the teachings of the bible. It has overtaken churches and denominations. This series of article arose from presentations in Australia and England. This is not a comprehensive analysis, just a brief overall view of this pernicious movement for concerned Christians.

SECTION 4 – ARE ADAM AND EVE MYTH OR FACT, AND DOES IT REALLY MATTER?

There is such a weight of evidence to support Adam from the Scriptures and we have only glanced at that, and it ought to be enough to persuade all but the most stubborn heart, yet there remain two more points that are absolutely essential for they go to the heart of credibility. We don’t want people to forget these because they are our defence against church people who dismiss the first three chapters of Genesis entirely or in part. I don’t think the arguments are very useful when discussing this matter with the unsaved as they don’t accept the credibility of the scriptures to start with. What I will do here, is use those notes of mine from the first message I gave in the seminar in Boston, and adjust them if necessary to cover these two remaining points.

FROM A PREVIOUS MESSAGE OF MINE - "GOD’S REVELATION IS YOUR BLESSING"

[A]. CHRIST AND ADAM –

Now before we go any further I want to raise a matter before we look at Adam. What is the central plank of our faith? Putting it another way, what is the pivotal point on which your faith, your salvation, rests?

Surely it is the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul said to the Corinthians that if Christ had not been raised, then we of all people are the most miserable, and you know why? We’d be believing in a myth, a legend, a lie! Who would want to waste his entire life living a lie.

If then our faith depends on the sacrificial work of Christ, and if we hold that the Lord was sinless, spotless, and God manifest in the flesh as the 2nd person of the blessed Trinity, then we must never, in any shape or form, attribute falsehood to the Lord Jesus Christ. He is trustworthy and not a liar. The matters of authenticity and credibility are seriously at stake.

Are the scriptures inspired of God, breathed by the Holy Spirit? Yes they are, and Jesus Christ my Saviour was the Author. No wonder it was beyond human comprehension that afternoon – look, if you could pick yourself up and put yourself down anywhere in the Bible, where would you do it? - on the Emmaus Road when the resurrected Lord shared with Cleopas and his companion all the things in scripture about Himself.

Where did he begin? He began with Moses. Under inspiration, Moses wrote Genesis. I just said to you that authenticity and credibility are at stake. There is a passage we must understand –

{{Matthew 19:3-6 Some Pharisees came to Him testing Him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause at all?” Matt 19:4 HE ANSWERED AND SAID, “HAVE YOU NOT READ, THAT HE WHO CREATED THEM FROM THE BEGINNING MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, Matt 19:5 and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh?’ Matt 19:6 Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”}}

God joined Adam and Eve in the garden in a union, in marriage. The passage is Genesis 2:21-25. What is certain is that the Lord accepted this Genesis account as authentic, credible and factual. That is essential, because if the creation of Adam and Eve was a fairy tale or some simplistic story to explain why sin is in the world, then you are saying that Jesus Christ was misled by believing a myth and was not omniscient, and therefore, not the divine One. Authenticity and credibility are at stake in the account of Adam and Eve. Liberals who deny the creation of the first man Adam, can NOT accept the second Man Adam because the two are so closely connected as we will now look at. To say you reject the first Adam and accept the Second, is to be a hypocrite. If you reject the original Adam you have to dismiss the Second Adam as ignorant.