Church Problem   Eph.2:20~22 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone]; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.   The Biblical Church is that saint are built together as a place where God lives, through the Holy Spirit, using Jesus as a corner stone. But the Christian Church is in serious trouble. They ignore the fundamental beliefs based on the Bible and are tinged with authoritarianism, materialism, charismatic movement, liberalism, formalism, growthism, successism, legalism, humanism, secularism.   Ezek.44:23 And they shall teach my people [the difference] between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. The meaning of "holy" is that it is distinct from the world, and the church is trying to get in the world or participate in the world. Human-centered liberal theology is spreading, shaking the basic doctrine of Christianity, interpreting the Bible rationally. Liberalism denies that the Bible can never be error, denies various miracles that Jesus has done, and denies the resurrection of the body. Almost religious society have already turned liberal, not believing in the Bible, emphasizing the traditions established by humans, and most seminaries teach liberal theology. Liberals are not only apostasy, but also under the name of the Ecumenical Movement, they are pushing for integration with Catholicism and other religions, shaking the belief that we are saved only by believing in Jesus. In addition, the charismatics do not live centered on truth, but mumble paganly or struggle close to frenzy to experience the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit of Truth is the one who wakes us when we read the Bible, responds to prayers, guides the right life, not to experience the sensual Holy Spirit or to do miracles. Then we will look at 'fundamentalism' to protect the fundamental doctrine and faith of Christianity, 'liberalism' to believe rationally and humanly, 'ecumenical movement' to integrate all religions centered on Catholicism, and 'charismatic movement' to pursue Holy Spirit experience or miracle.   1. Fundamentalism   a) History   Fundamentalism came from the United States in the late 19th century to counter liberal theology. In 1910, the General Assembly of the Northern Presbyterian Church of the United States declared that the Bible has no error, Jesus' virgin birth, Jesus' substitution, the physical resurrection of Jesus, the fact of the miracles of Jesus. This declaration was against liberal theology, which began to have unbelieving influences on the seminaries and churches in the late 19th century. Liberal theology denied these five doctrines. However, since the 1920s, embracementism has emerged within the Presbyterian Church, shaking fundamental beliefs and recognizing liberalism. In the 1930s, the great religious society of the United States began to embrace liberalism, and the fundamentalist churches opposed it and declared separation. The North Presbyterian Church has pursued a compromise missionary policy with other religions. The "Orthodox Presbyterian Church" rebelled against this, was founded in 1939. In the 1940s, the "Evangelicalism" movement, which seeks to harmonize and compromise with liberalism, occurred among fundamentalists In 1942, the "American Evangelical Association" was organized: In 1948, fundamentalists who argued for separation from apostasy adopted the following doctrinal declarations:   (1) full inspiration of Bible, no errors, final authority, (2) the Trinity of God, (3) the true and eternal divinity of Jesus Christ, his true but innocent humanity, (4) the virgin birth of Jesus (5) the substitutional and explatory death of Jesus, (6) the physical resurrection of Jesus, (7) The glorious second coming of Jesus, (8) the corruption of man, (9) Rebirth by the Holy Spirit, salvation of God’s grace of faith, (10) the eternal blessing of the saved, the eternal punishment of the lost,   b) The principle of separation   Separation is to break up fellowship without harmonizing with unbeliever, heretic, criminal. The reason for separation is to maintain the purity of the church, not to be contaminated by evil, and to the honor of God. The method of separation points out the opponent's fault and breaks off the church personal fellowship. If the religious society joins the 'World Council of Churches'(WCC), participates in a coalition, or is taken over by liberals, you must struggle or leave.   c) Attacks against fundamentalism   Liberals accuse fundamentalism of being a disruptor of the coalition movement, a cultural underdog, an anti-scientific anti-intellectualist, and a social recluse. In addition, the tendency of fundamentalism such as excessive dependence on doctrine, aversion to science, antipathy to knowledge, and avoidance of secularity will be excluded from the mainstream of the theological movement. In American movies, fundamentalists are also portrayed as conservative, self-righteous, and intransigence radicals. In the United States, there are fundamentalist parents who teach home schooling without sending their children to school because they teach evolution and liberal and humanistic things in school.   The fundamentalists may seem self-righteous, exclusive, and authoritarian, but they are pure Christians who want to live according to the words and beliefs of God. However, many fundamentalist churches are participating in liberal and ecumenical movements without enduring the pressure of believers who want to be inclusive and revivable.   2. Liberalism   a) The origin of liberal theology   People who began to open their eyes to human freedom and reason as the Middle Ages collapsed began to do critical research on the Bible. Liberal theology was initiated by Schlieel Maher, Ritzl and Harnac in the 19th century, and since then refers to rational scientific and philosophical theological ideas that have been diverse to this day. Liberalism is a tendency to believe as you want to believe according to your own thoughts, not as it is written in the Bible.   Liberalism downplays biblical doctrine, and religion relies on emotion or experience. They deny the various miracles Jesus has done and modernize Christianity with scientific philosophical thinking. With the development of science and technology, the collapse of traditional values and the secularization of the church, liberalism is gaining greater strength. But liberalism is a heretical doctrine that denies fundamental doctrine of the Bible and eventually moves people away from salvation.   b) Biblical rebuttal to liberal theology;   1. Denying the credibility of the Bible   2Tim.3:16~17 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. 2Pet.1:20~21 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost.   Matt.5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.   2. They see Creation and Fall as myths, not facts Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Rom.1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:   Rom.5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.   3. They deny Jesus' incaration and virgin birtth. John1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. Is.7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Matt.1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.   4. They deny Jesus' miracle   John2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast [day], many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. John6:14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. Acts2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:   5. They deny Jesus' substitution   Matt.26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Eph.1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Col.1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:   6. They deny the resurrection of the body of Jesus Christ. Acts2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. Rom.10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 1Cor.15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1Cor.15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:   7. They deny Jesus is only savior. John14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Acts4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. 1Tim.2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;   8. They deny second coming of Jesus. Matt.16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Heb.9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Rev.22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed [is] he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.   9. They deny painul Hell.   Matt.13:42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Mark9:48~49 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt Luke16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.     3. Ecumenical Movement a) Concept The Ecumenical Movement started as the Christian Union Movement. The World Council of Churches (WCC), which leads the ecumenical movement, embraces a variety of theology. The Ecumenical Movement encourages the exchange and cooperation of different religious society.   b) The essence of Catholicism   1. The Papal system; Catholicism is said to be the papal, inheriting Peter's apostolic office, the deputy of Christ, the head of the whole church, and an errorless being. So They think the Pope's teaching is higher than the Bible. But this doctrine of the pope is not based on the Bible and challenges the authority of God, Jesus, and the Bible. The pope is a sinful, fragile man, and has historically done many immoral things(murder, blasphemy, adultery, incest, and bribe). In the Middle Ages, he owned wealth and power that surpassed the king, which is far from the servicing leader presented by Jesus.    2. Service to Maria;   The Catholic Church says that Maria conceived without original sin, and when she died, her body and soul ascended to heaven. Maria is the mother and queen of all people, the gate of heaven, and is forgiven through her. So pray to Mary and go to Jesus and God through Mary. This is a doctrine that has no basis for the Bible, which puts Mary, who is only a human, in Jesus' place. Mary is just a woman who borrowed for a while to come to the earth as a body. Only by Jesus Christ can be saved, and the worship of Mary is derived from the worship of the goddess of the pagan religion.   3. Repeal Catholicism denies being righteous by faith. Atonement is said to be done by good deeds, prayers and confessions. The right to forgive is only to Jesus, catholic is forgiven by confessing to a sinful human priest. Catholicism is now gesturing reconciliation for the union with Christianity, but if it holds power, it will again carry out ruthless tyranny.    c) leading to the integration of world religions The ecumenical movement integrated with Catholicism will lead to world religious integration. The basic spirit of ecumenical is anti-Christianism and inclusiveness. 'The World Council of Churches'(WCC) admits that God can also active other religions and should stop missioning to pagans.   They think that the Christian God, the Muslim God, and the Hindu God are exist because they understand one God in a different way. At present, Catholicism can be seen to join together in Buddhist events. Religious leaders gather their strengths to raise their voices to address the problems facing humanity (to fight poverty, social cleanup, and prevent environmental pollution). Christians will go to church and admit that Buddhism has salvation. And there is something that will tie them together. When religious unity is achieved, a "worldly religious leader"(a false prophet) will appear, and if he is force to serve 'a world government leader'(anti-Christ) showing a great miracle, they will serve him as a second-coming Lord in Christianity, serve him as a Messiah in Judaism, serve him him as a Maitreya in Buddhism, and serve him as an imam in Islam.      4. Charismatic Movement   a) The origin of charismatic movement In April 1906, a dialect movement was launched in earnest by William Seamoor, a black preacher in Los Angeles, Western California, through so-called Ajousa streets, where a Pentecostalism was created In the mid-20th century, the movement spread beyond the Pentecostal church into other chuurch and by the end of 1960 it had entered the Catholic Church. This is called the Neo-Pentecostalism or The Charismatic Movement. * The charismatic movement has some characteristic claims: First, the charismatic movement argues that believers should be baptized by the Holy Spirit, emphasizing the experience of receiving the Holy Spirit. Second, charismatic movement claims that the first evidence of baptism by the Holy Spirit is dialect. The charismatic movement originated in the dialect movement, especially emphasizing the gift of the dialect. Third, the charismatic movement claims that the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit evidenced in the Bible are still continuing or recovering. Fourth, the charismatic movement has a very emotional tendency to place the emphasis on the faith life in the experience of gifts rather than obedience to God's will. The experience of Holy Spirit they claim is strange physical expressions, such as people lying on the floor of the assembly site for hours(completely unconscious), shaking their head, convulsing their bodies, drunkenness, faint head, dancing in the Holy Spirit, barking like a dog, continuing to laugh, and rotating their body.   The Pentecostal Church is the world's fastest growing church, with around 190 million charismatics, of which 85 million are Pentecostals, 16 million are Protestant charismatic, 50 million are Catholic charismatic, and 42 million are Chinese charismatic. The charismatic has many forms, including the 'Alpha Course' and 'Promise Keepers'. Today, many evangelicals and college students' missionaries (CCC) accept the charismatic. According to Charismatic magazine, in 1993, about 51 percent of the members of the Evangelical Association of America were Pentecostal.    b) The meaning of Holy Spirit   The experience of the Holy Spirit at the Pentecostal is the first event in which the Holy Spirit of Truth come down. From this time the disciples are full of the Holy Spirit, preaching and performing their abilities. The Holy Spirit is what we receive as the grace of God when we believe in the Lord Jesus and pray. The Holy Spirit of Truth saves my dead spirit, awakens what I do not know, and boldly proclaim the Word of God.   However, shaking, shouting, and blowing the Holy Spirit with your hands is not based on the Bible, and it is similar to the experience of god of the shaman. Spiritual experiences without focusing on truth are likely to suffer from evil spirits. The way to experience spirituality in New Age is to repeat the same words or shake yourself crazy and call the devils. The charismatic say that the dialect is evidence of the Holy Spirit experience, but the dialect is one of many gifts and can not be evidence of the Holy Spirit. Jesus told me not to pray repeatedly, as the pagos does, but to pray straight. Dialects are spoken in other religions besides Christianity, and mystical religions mostly memorize the same spell. So you don't have to get the dialect.   c) A critique of charismatic Three central representatives of the Braunsville Church of God in Pensacola, Florida, the mainstay of the largest branch church revival in American history, bought a lot of land and built luxury houses. Church pastor John Kilpatrick traveled in a $310,000 luxury car and built a $340,000 luxury house. Evangelist Stephen Hill bought $847,931 worth of land in Alabama. Michael Brown, the school's director of ministry in Brownsville, is reportedly building a $727,360-dollar house. The charismatic value the Holy Spirit experience more than the Word. But the Holy Spirit experience without the foundation of truth can not lead us to salvation. We must know that demons always lead us in the wrong way and prevent us from believing in God right.     4. My Opinion   a) About Fundementalism I actively support the fundamentalism of protecting the fundamental beliefs and doctrines of Christianity. I believe in the no error of the Bible, the Trinity, salvation through Jesus, the virgin birth of Jesus, the resurrection of the body, all the miracles Jesus has done, the judgment and the second coming of Jesus. However, the Bible written by God is perfect, but the doctrines made by man(Calvin) have some errors.   1. Total depravity; The total depravity is that man has fallen completely so that he can not receive Jesus Christ with his own power. In other words, man is a 100% evil person who is not mixed with 1% of good before being saved. But God gave everyone a conscience that is in mind.   Rom.2:14~15 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)   Conscience makes us feel guilty when we sin, and we feel joy when we do good work. Jesus said that through the metaphor of the seeding, the good and righteous can accept the word of God and that there is blessing. If there is a 100% evil being, he can be called a demon, not a person.   John1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!   Rom.3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.   In fact, Jesus told all the people of all classes, but the evil and arrogant Pharisees did not follow Jesus, but only the pure lower classes believed and followed Jesus. God sees that there is no righteous person in this world, which means that no one is good enough to meet God's standards, not that human beings are 100% evil.   2. Irregistable Grace   The "irregistable grace" is that God forces the chosen sinner to believe in Jesus Christ. In other words, the person who has been chosen by God is like a person who is possessed by something, and he is saved by believing in Jesus regardless of his will. But in the Bible, we can find many examples of human resistance to God's grace.   Acts7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.   Adam and Eve broke God's commandment, and in the Exodus the Israelites were insubordination to God's Word through Moses, and Saul selected from God was disobeyed by God's Word. Throughout the Old Testament, the Israelites were judged countless times to serve idol gods, eventually rejecting, persecuted, and even killed prophets and Messiah. The fact that Jews rejected God's grace also appears in the vineyard analogy, the wedding feast analogy, and Stephen's sermon.   Ezra7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and [of] his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.   1Sam.15:11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.   The reason why humans can refuse God's grace is because of the 'free will' of man who can do it at my own discretion. God can not control man because he did not make human beings remotely controlled robots. You can accept or reject God's grace with your own free will. God regretted that he made Saul a king when Saul disobeyed God.   b) on liberalism Until the dead spirit is revived, human beings have no choice but to think rationally, logically, philosophically and scientifically. It is natural that you can not believe when you look at the Bible with human rational thoughts. I was once liberal, so I solved the incredible things of the Bible as metaphors and symbols. But I realized that it was a misunderstanding because I did not look closely at the Bible, and that I did not understand the spiritual world and the ability of God.    2Tim.4:3~4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.   It says that people can not withstand 'sound doctrine' at the end of the world, and that they have a lot of teachers who will enjoy their itchy ears according to their lust. In other words, people forced the belief of the unbelievable doctrine of the Bible, and liberals appeared and claim that the Bible was a myth, the miracle was a lie, and the incredible fact was a symbolic meaning. So they turn their ears from the truth to the fiction stories. But miracles in the Bible are possible because we do not understand them because we are low level Galileo said the earth was round, people said he was crazy, and when Einstein argued for relativity, they laughed at. The computer, smart phone, or the Internet we are using now is unimaginable a hundred years ago. Currently, liberal theology is doing things that are far from salvation, such as judging humanly rather than keeping biblical doctrine, paying attention to social participation rather than keeping faith, using secular methods rather than relying on the Holy Spirit, and leading the ecumenical movement. Before the last time comes, you must repent to God with humility and return to the right path.   c) About the ecumenical movement   Rev.17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:   The Ecumenical Movement emphasizes peace and harmony and condemns those who want to keep their fundamental beliefs as exclusiveists. But the Christian coalition movement is contaminated by liberalism, and the union with Catholicism is betraying Jesus. Catholic is the whore in the Revelations. The pope was dressed in purple and scarlet clothes, and performed spiritual indecent acts in the worship of Mary.   Rev.17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. The Pope, who was absolutely no error, took hands with the Catholic Hitler and massacred Jews and Russians. The woman was drunken with the blood of the saint because they slaughtered 40 million Christians in the Middle Ages. The Vatican has built an absolute power higher than the kingship since the Middle Ages, cruelly tortured and killed those who did not follow the Pope.   "Hitler is the messanger sent by God." - Bishop Stefanic The combination of politics and Catholic religion Catholic is collaborating with Freemasons(demon worship groups) who are trying to plot to form a world government. Catholic will make religions around the world one under the papacy and worship the Antichrist. If you do not know the truth, you will have to fall into the tricks of those who pretend to be peace.    d) about charismatic   Matt.7:21~23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.   The above passage sounds like Jesus's words to the present charismatic 2,000 years ago. Even though the charismatics have done many things, such as acting as prophets in the name of Jesus, kicking out evil spirits in the name of Jesus, and blowing the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus, but the Lord scolds and expels them during the last judgment. It is because the charismatics did not based on the truth, but did their own way. The faith that does not accompany Jesus and pursues his own interest has nothing to do with Jesus.   Matt.24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.   Matt.16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. The sign or miracle that false Christ and false prophets do has nothing to do with salvation. The Jews seeked the sigh to Jesus, but Jesus said that evil and obscene generations demand the sign. The real sign is that the corrupt sinner becomes a righteous person, as the impolite Jonah repents and obeys God. The evil person likes false abilities, miracles and tricks, but it gets caught in the snare of Satan and eventually leads to judgment.   2Thess.2:9~12 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2Cor.4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal. The righteous seeks the invisible truth and tries to live good and right according to God's will. So God is told not to serve the visible idol(matters), but to believe in the invisible God(words). Church leaders are obliged to lead the saints to full salvation.   * word: church problem   Copyright(c) light and darkness history All rights reserved aspire7@hanmir.com