Whom do we listen to? Have we been captured by a siren’s song, whether that siren is from the NAR or the inclusivists?
A Christian is perhaps more susceptible to the NAR. It promises the ability to perform almost endless signs and wonders, coupled with total victory over their adversaries, those who hate Christ. Instead, consider the many verses in the New Testament that speak of Christians facing persecution and suffering, pressures that will increase prior to Christ’s return.
A non-Christian is perhaps more likely to be captivated by the “Christian” inclusivists/progressives. They do away with the need for salvation. One can reject all the passages of Scripture that cause discomfort and point to the reality of sin. After all, everyone is included in Christ, all are saved, regardless.
Neither side is biblical, neither side is helpful. On the one hand, with the NAR, one finds a militant warfare “gospel,” a “gospel” that often removes God’s love, presenting a “god” of militant judgment, with followers who at times seem to have more in common with the Qur’an’s teachings of warfare and subduing the infidels, than Scripture. Love, pray for, and do good to your enemies? Almost nowhere to be found. Those who referred to the NAR as a type of “Christian Taliban,” sadly, have some justification for doing so.
If, as Scripture states, the world will know we are disciples of Jesus by our love for one another—in that verse’s context believer’s love for other believers—one doesn’t find it here. Rather, as we’ve seen, every Christian must conform to all NAR tenets or risk God’s judgment, death and destruction, or being devoured. The NAR has all too many marks of a classic cult group. Their apostles have total authority, and one must align one’s life with them on all levels. “Align” is a much more neutral sounding term than the classic understanding of “submit” within a cult-group context.
The progressive/inclusivist side does the exact opposite from the NAR side. Here one finds a “god” of love, a love based on human terms, not a biblical love that is also holy. Due to that overarching love, all will be saved. Accountability? Having to face eternal judgment because of one’s own sin? Nowhere to be found. Everyone is included, some just haven’t realized it yet. As just mentioned, God’s holiness is absent. Christ needing to die on the cross for our sins? Not really.
As we will see in the next post, both sides diminish Jesus.
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