If Spong were honest…
Recently, I’ve listened to the Issues, Etc. interview & follow-up analysis of John Shelby Spong (Check out the Issues, Etc. archives for May — specifically the 5th & 10th). Spong, a retired Episcopal bishop is well & truly a piece of work. It’s not often that I’m willing to unreservedly declare someone a heretic, but Spong is a heretic. That he calls himself a Christian is truly a testament to the depths that Satan will go to try and deceive us, not to mention the lengths to which we will go to try and rationalize/justify ourselves.
I mention Spong because I thought of him when I read a recent blog rerun by Dr. Al Mohler, entitled It Takes One To Know One. Dr. Mohler describes the path taken by former German Lutheran & liberal theologian Gerd Ludemann. Ludemann’s trajectory through liberal theology, and its denunciation of orthodox, historic Christianity, reads eerily similar to that of Spong’s, with one significant difference.
Ludemann has had the integrity to fess up to the fact that liberal theology is actually not Christian at its heart. Would that Spong had the same amount of integrity to abandon his ludicrous fantasy!
-ghp
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