The Social Gospel, Emergent Church,
Feminism and Gay Marriage
- What do these all have in common?

I wanted to write a little on these various topics, as I am guessing a few of you assume, I must be liberal, if I think certain forms of pornography are permissible (see article).

The fact is, I am the exact opposite. My concern is what does God teach within scripture. I could care less about the "isms", such as liberalism, conservativism, etc. For instance, liberalism within the church tends to promote gay marriage, accept feminism, preach the social gospel and the declarification of Christian doctrine (Emergent Church). I am the exact opposite. I am against gay marriage, I hate feminism, I preach the "real" gospel and want scripture truly clarified to get rid of the "isms". So, these all listed above tend to represent liberalism, yet this does not negate error found on the conservative side as well.

1. The Social Gospel - Is an attempt to replace preaching of the true gospel with good works and feel good programs. Often forsaking true gospel preaching and instead promoting social programs to help people physically, financially, etc.. There is nothing wrong with social programs or helping people. The problem is when you forsake true gospel preaching to only promote such social programs. Often, the logic behind this social gospel mindset is that the real gospel is not relevant as God will save "everyone", which is obviously incorrect.
2. The Emergent Church - The newest of church movements, which is just a repackaging of the liberal church of the 80's and 90's. About the only difference between the Emergent Church and the Liberal Church is they claim to be focusing on my generation (30's age group) and that my generation somehow needs a couch, a laptop and a latte. Frankly, I goto church to learn about God, not to sit on a couch. I use computers ALL the time, I have plenty of couch space at my house. I don't need them at church. I don't need you to coddle me and make me "feel good". I am not interested in my selfish desires being fulfilled. You can not save people with silly things like this.. The Emergent Church is interested in declarifying scriptures and making their viewpoint an enigma.. Its God loves you and lets leave it at that. When asked, do they believe in the final judgement, they will dodge the question. However, if you study the doctrine of the Emergent Church, what you discover is that they do not believe there is a final judgement, because God will save everyone (according to them). Only an evil God would sentence someone to Hell. So, they do not believe you are required to have saving faith in Christ. They do not believe in a final judgement. With such a viewpoint, it means they do not honor God's holiness and are not believing in the God of the Bible. See these passages: 1 John 4:1-4 , Titus 1:9 , 2 Corinthians 11:4 , 1 Timothy 1:3 , Matthew 24:38 , 2 Timothy 4:3 , 2 Timothy 3:1-9
3. Feminism - This one has crept into both liberal and conservative churches. Frankly, I can't recall the last preacher who discussed the "wives submit to your husbands" scripture without dancing around the topic to avoid offending any women. Even today, I am listening to, I believe it was, Chuck Swindoll. He had no problem saying women are to be submissive to their husbands, however, even he was dancing around the topic lightly. He said, he took a vacation after preaching that sermon, so he could avoid any flack from the women in the congregation. FIRST, why is it he assumes women will automatically have a problem with what he preached on? If they are women of God, and they have a problem with scripture, they have some serious spiritual issues. A commandment is a commandment. If you do not like God's commandments, you have a problem with God, not the preacher's opinion. On the topic of men loving their wives as Christ loved the church and also being head. It is simple. You follow the commandments. Love your wife, as Christ loved the church. It does not mean, she can do whatever she wants. Obviously, those who do not love Jesus, he does not save. So, the church is committed to Christ. So, the wife is to be committed to her husband.. And the man, is to love her as Christ loves his church. Further, Christ made man the head.. For the man, if you can not be the head, you are just ignoring scripture, which means you are violating a commandment. For the women, if you are a woman who likes to have control, you need to make sure your husband agrees with your direction and decisions.. Meaning, if you are so in control of your household and so in control of your life, then you should have no problem submitting to your husband as the "final" answer to running things in the household. If you do have a problem, as a wife, submitting to your husband and can not allow your husband to be the "final say", then you are "unruly" as the scripture states and that means you are rebelling against God's order.. Meaning, I don't think God has a problem with you "being in charge of things" so long as you are letting your husband have the FINAL word.. And if your husband has no balls, he needs to grow some, because he is suppose to have the final word.. And if you can not submit to your husband, how is it you think you can submit to God? Isn't that a good question? If you can not follow a simple commandment, to submit to your husband, perhaps it shows your spiritual condition. That you do not submit to God either. And men, if you can not grow enough balls to have final word on important issues, perhaps, you should start wearing a dress? If you can not control anything in your house, you are telling God, he is wrong, which is sin and you are no better than an unruly wife.. It is selfish for you not to do what is necessary. Gee, I think I just angered probably about 90% of the church, because I can not recall the last preacher, radio show, etc that was Christian who actually had the guts to say what I said above, without worrying about offending.. Frankly, I don't care if I offend you. Maybe it will help you to realize the truth, seeing no one else has the balls to say it.
4. Gay Marriage - As I have discussed in many articles, the gay lifestyle is a sinful lifestyle. - Leviticus 18:22 , Romans 1 . So, a man being in a relationship or marrying to another man is a sin. Likewise, a woman marrying another woman is a sin as well. Why? Because they are rebelling against God's design, as discussed in Genesis and Romans. God's design is for a man to marry a woman. Or for a man to marry multiple woman (secondary lifestyle). However, I have to say, the conservative viewpoint has errors as well. The conservatives would assume, polygamy is a sin. Yet, I prove this viewpoint wrong in this article here. Also, conservatives assume that a man can not sleep with two women at the same time, yet people in the Old Testament did such things. Further, conservatives assume a woman could never have sex with another woman, yet, it is never once mentioned in scripture as a sin. They assume, Romans 1 is saying this, yet, it never directly says this. Further, the Old Testament never says it either. So, the idea behind lesbianism being a sin is that it is rebelling against God's order. God's order is one man with one woman in marriage or one man with more than one woman (due to more women in the world than men and certain cultures make it difficult for women to live on their own means). So Ellen Degeneres marrying another woman or Lindsay Lohan marrying another woman is sin and rebelling against God's design. When it comes to men, it DOES say, men can not have sex with men. Very directly, it says men can not have sex with men, so obviously, this is a sin. Why is woman lying with woman never mentioned? I believe it is because then polygamy could be condemned (more than one woman with one man). I discuss all of this in detail, citing scripture, here. God's ideal is for a man to be with one woman, yet that does not mean there are not other things which are permissible. So, neither the liberal or the conservative are correct. Yet the conservative viewpoint is closer to the truth, and is definitely correct on the gay marriage topic.