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Post by Charity on Oct 5, 2006 12:29:10 GMT -5
Watered down churches watered down politics watered down world  And we wonder why there are so many problems is the world. |
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Post by Charity on Oct 5, 2006 12:32:15 GMT -5
Maybe we should just let the liberals have it .
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Post by Charity on Oct 5, 2006 20:26:15 GMT -5
"But in these days, the self-styled 'men of progress', who commenced with preaching the gospel, degenerate as they advance, and their divinity, like the snail, melts as it proceeds. I hope it will never be so with any of us. I have likened the career of certain divines to the journey of a Roman wine-cask from the vineyard to the city. It starts from the winepress as the pure juice of the grape; but, at the first halting-place, the drivers of the cart must needs quench their thirst; and when they come to a fountain, they substitute water for the wine which which they have drunk. In the next village, there are numbers of lovers of wine who beg or buy a little, and the discreet carrier dilutes it again. The watering is again and again repeated, till, on its entrance into Rome, the fluid is remarkably different from that which originally started from the vineyard. There is a way of 'doctoring' the gospel in much the same manner. A little truth is given up, and then a little more, and men fill the vacuum with opinions, inferences, speculations, and dreams, till their wine is mixed with water, and the water none of the best. Many preachers - an I speak it with sorrow - have built a tower of theological speculations, upon which they sit, like Nero, fiddling the tune of their own philosophy while the world is burning with sin and misery. They are playing with the toys of speculation while men's souls are being lost." (An All-round Ministry C. H. Spurgeon)
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