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During the next three parts of this series we will investigate the second of the four humanistic institutions waging war against America: The apostate (false) church.
With few exceptions, the "typical" evangelical church in America today exists simply to provide people with employment, to make those who show up on Sunday morning feel comfortable, and to provide activities for kids so they stay out of trouble. This may sound a bit harsh, but I don't think so. I have personally experienced this to be true in my own church life and witnessed it in the lives of countless others that I have ministered with. Unfortunately, there is often not enough interest in teaching "line upon line and precept upon precept." And herein lies one of our greatest areas of surrender as a nation.
Fortunately, there is good news! Throughout history, the Lord has always preserved and raised up a small but committed remnant to fight against the evil plans & schemes of the enemy. I am honored to be a soldier in this spiritual war.
In this edition we will learn about the birth of a philosophy known as "Higher Criticism," which is the foundation for the term we now recognize as "Political Correctness." This deceiving mindset has become ingrained in our culture, largely because it was first accepted by the church...
"Faith, Family & Freedom: Our American Values Under Fire"
Julius Wellhausen
(1844-1918)
In 1878, a German theology professor and author of numerous books “discovered” that the Bible was a book of stories but not the divinely inspired Word of God. He proclaimed his new "truth" to countless German citizens and taught that the Bible could not be trusted, but human reason could. Known as Higher Criticism or German rationalization, this was the contribution to Germany’s cultural demise offered by Julius Wellhausen.
It was also his contribution to the success of Adolf Hitler, as German rationalization led the people away from their Christian moorings, they embraced an essentially humanistic religion. Germany was Hitler’s for the taking because the absolute truth of God had long since been betrayed, and thus the German people believed that “the end justifies the means.” In return for regaining their national pride and financial abundance, the people would grant Hitler his dream of hope and change and thus, the people went blindly along.
History screams that ideas have consequences, that worldview matters. Most Germans, including German Christians, willingly traveled the road to Hitler’s hell, largely because they had lost the courage of their convictions. They had sold out to paganism, pragmatism and a new gospel that promised everything and required nothing.
Wellhausen’s liberal philosophy eventually jumped the ocean and became popular on the East Coast and has spread throughout the United States. Many Americans today seem all too willing to go down a path that will surely lead to the destruction of our great nation, and many self-professing Christians are leading the way over the cliff. A domineering false church is rising, largely due to pansies in the pulpit.
Cultural Marxism is what most Americans know only as “political correctness,” but is the worldview of many of today’s professors, leading educators, members of the media, numerous self-professing Christians and almost every politician. Political correctness is a speech code the cultural elite have forced on America to deny the existence of God and His authority in all areas of life. Words have meanings, and words that reflect absolute moral truth based on the character and nature of God are considered bigoted, intolerant, and politically incorrect. The Germans turned to serving man and worshiping man’s intellect instead of the Almighty God. As a result, they accepted Adolf Hitler’s lies.
America’s courts, legislatures, executive branches, and the church at large have fallen in love with similar deceptions. We’ve rejected the law of God's Word (the Ten Commandments), the bedrock of our Constitutional Republic, in favor of moral relativism, situational ethics, and political correctness. The consequence is that most Americans have surrendered their heritage, their birthright, and their unalienable rights in exchange for the promise of free college, free health care, and whatever carrot can be devised by the governing body to seduce them into slavery.
Our founding fathers tried to warn us that the only workable option was God’s moral law. Otherwise, martial law would be required from fork-tongued politicians who promise all the rights without any of the responsibilities. In general, the Church in America, like the Church in Germany, has not stood in the way of this change but has often been a willing proponent. We failed to guard our churches and seminaries, and the radicals penetrated every institution of the middle class, every institution that made us free and great. America is dying from within because of the religious Trojan horse crafted by Julius Wellhausen.
Sources:
David Breese, Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 1992), pg 96
Brannon Howse, Grave Influence (Worldview Publishing, 2009), pg 84"Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" - Romans 12:2
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