http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6bH0jkoNYQ&feature=related
I was sent this video of Bart Campolo on the subject of substitutional atonement. The debate around this has raged for a few years now and the temptation is that in the name of Unity we say this doesn't really matter.
I've just got back from a glorious week in France and while I was ther I read three books. AW Pinks "The Attributes of God" Arnold Dallimores biography of Charles Spurgeon and Spurgeon on the "Downgrade contorversy"
It would appear that Spurgeons "Stand" was around liberalisation of key doctirnes.
1. The inspiration and innerrancy of scripture
2, The substitutional atoning death of Christ. Especially around the concept of propritiation.
3. The nature and existance of Hell fire
So heated did it get he eventually left the Bapist Union.
Today there is a resurrgence of a bloodless and posssibly irrelevant cross for some who claim to be Evangelical. Scripture is seen as only to be able to be inerpretted in the context of the community of Christ and must be subject to reason, tradition and experience. Hell is a decent into nothingness with an eventual anhialation or a temporary state of punishment that leads to universal redemption in the end.
How did we get there from the true and glorious Gospel of Christ Jesus crucified for me.
The Theological Musings of a Inner City Missionary... The term Christian Hedonist comes from Dr John Pipers book Desiring God where he describes the Christians Quest for Joy that is found in the Glory of God and the Enjoyment of Him. Following the Missionary God in His Mission results in delight for me and Glory for Him, may the Nations be Glad!
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