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Liberal Christianity

 

Liberal Christianity is a bit of an oxymoron I think. It is about believing what you want to believe regardless of what scripture says, it is about rationalizing scripture to meet your own beliefs and actions, it is about doing whatever seems good to you and fits your own selfish desires. Therefore, it cannot be called Christianity.

Do we really believe homosexuality and transgender ideology is scriptural? Do we really believe that God has no problem with abortion or euthanasia? Do we really believe that gay marriage is fine? If you believe this, then you are reading a different Bible than I am – and it is not the true Word of God.

If all these things are fine, then why did Jesus bother going through the agony of dying on the cross? What is sin? Sin is very clearly defined in Scripture if it is read with integrity, humility and honesty. We all sin – every day. But when we refuse to admit we are sinning because it doesn’t fit the actions we take or the way we want to live our lives (regardless of what Scripture says), then we are pursuing and deliberately ignoring sin in our lives.

What will be next I wonder? Is murder scriptural – after all, David arranged for Uriah’s murder, and God said he was a man after His own heart. Let’s just conveniently forget how God punished David for this sin. We could twist scripture to make rape acceptable. Paedophilia isn’t specified as a sin so that must be allowed.

It bothers me to find sites that say we can ignore all the sexual sins in Leviticus because it was all to do with the culture of the time and after all, Jesus came to abolish the necessity to conform to Old Testament rules. Well, read the New Testament where sexual sin is addressed.

We are a sinful and broken people. Without God, we have no hope. We repent and ask forgiveness for our sin and God is ‘faithful and just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness’ (1 John 1:9). Repent is an important word here. It means recognising and asking forgiveness for our sins, and it also means turning from our sin.

Asking forgiveness for our sin, is not about twisting scripture to make our selfish, prideful, sinful actions seem acceptable.

May you find truth, in your reading of the Scriptures.

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