Let’s face it: the idea that the entire human race is fallen and condemned is simply too harsh for most people’s tastes. They would rather believe that most people are fundamentally good. Virtually every popular arbiter of our culture’s highest, noblest values – from Oprah Winfrey to the Hallmark Channel – tells us so consistently. All we need to do, they say, is cultivate our underlying goodness, and we can fix everything wrong with the human society. That’s not terribly different from what the Pharisees believed about themselves.
- John MacArthur, The Jesus You Can’t Ignore, pg.47
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
The real issue here is not if pride exists in your heart; it’s where pride exists and how pride is being expressed in your life. Scripture shows us that pride is strongly and dangerously rooted in our lives, far more than most of us care to admit or even think about.
When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, … still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed… resting place for the heart and mind but in the Throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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