18 min
Jesus of Nazareth: The Unequaled, Incomparable Christ - Part 2 Defending and Commending the Faith With Dr. Joe L. Mott, inviting the atheist, agnostic and skeptic to examine for themselves
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- Christianity
References:
(1)”Evidence and Truth” by Robert J. Morgan.
(2) There are 2 books entitled “The Incomparable Christ”: one by J. Oswald Sanders, the general director of Overseas Missionary Fellowship in the 1950s, and one by John Stott, the pastor of All Souls Church in London, England.
(3) Rather than attempt to summarize these books, I chose to report salient comments from an article by John Stott published by the C.S. Lewis Institute.
(4) Stott refers to Liberation Theology prominent in Roman Catholicism, originally centered in Latin America.
(5)When you hear the word OPPRESSED, recognize that word is a CATCHALL PHRASE from MARXISM, and the change they suggest is a change brought about by REVOLUTION, a COMPLETE UPHEAVAL of the society.
(6) The 1937 book “The Peril of Modernizing Jesus” by H.J. Cadbury.
(7) Stott writes, “So this is our DILEMMA. How can we be LOYAL to the AUTHENTIC Jesus and SIMULTANEOUSLY present him RELEVANTLY to our contemporaries? It is good to present Jesus in the BEST POSSIBLE LIGHT, so as to commend Him to the world. BUT it is NOT GOOD, in order to do so, to ELIMINATE from the PORTRAIT everything which might OFFEND, including the OFFENSE of the cross. There is always a PRICE TO PAY for this kind of FEEBLE-MINDED ACCOMMODATION. Jesus is WRENCHED OUT of His original context. He becomes MANIPULATED and DOMESTICATED and what is then presented to the world is an ANACHRONISM, even a CARICATURE.”
(8) It is not that people have rejected Christ, but that they have rejected a PSEUDO-CHRIST.
(9) Dr. Peter Kuzmic, President of the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek, Yugoslavia, comments: “In going out to evangelize in Yugoslavia, I frequently tell our seminary students that our main task may be simply to ‘wash the FACE of Jesus’, for it has been DIRTIED and DISTORTED by both the compromises of institutional Christianity through the centuries and the antagonistic propaganda of ATHEISTIC COMMUNISM in recent decades.”
This is episode 170.
References:
(1)”Evidence and Truth” by Robert J. Morgan.
(2) There are 2 books entitled “The Incomparable Christ”: one by J. Oswald Sanders, the general director of Overseas Missionary Fellowship in the 1950s, and one by John Stott, the pastor of All Souls Church in London, England.
(3) Rather than attempt to summarize these books, I chose to report salient comments from an article by John Stott published by the C.S. Lewis Institute.
(4) Stott refers to Liberation Theology prominent in Roman Catholicism, originally centered in Latin America.
(5)When you hear the word OPPRESSED, recognize that word is a CATCHALL PHRASE from MARXISM, and the change they suggest is a change brought about by REVOLUTION, a COMPLETE UPHEAVAL of the society.
(6) The 1937 book “The Peril of Modernizing Jesus” by H.J. Cadbury.
(7) Stott writes, “So this is our DILEMMA. How can we be LOYAL to the AUTHENTIC Jesus and SIMULTANEOUSLY present him RELEVANTLY to our contemporaries? It is good to present Jesus in the BEST POSSIBLE LIGHT, so as to commend Him to the world. BUT it is NOT GOOD, in order to do so, to ELIMINATE from the PORTRAIT everything which might OFFEND, including the OFFENSE of the cross. There is always a PRICE TO PAY for this kind of FEEBLE-MINDED ACCOMMODATION. Jesus is WRENCHED OUT of His original context. He becomes MANIPULATED and DOMESTICATED and what is then presented to the world is an ANACHRONISM, even a CARICATURE.”
(8) It is not that people have rejected Christ, but that they have rejected a PSEUDO-CHRIST.
(9) Dr. Peter Kuzmic, President of the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek, Yugoslavia, comments: “In going out to evangelize in Yugoslavia, I frequently tell our seminary students that our main task may be simply to ‘wash the FACE of Jesus’, for it has been DIRTIED and DISTORTED by both the compromises of institutional Christianity through the centuries and the antagonistic propaganda of ATHEISTIC COMMUNISM in recent decades.”
This is episode 170.
18 min