Spirit Jesus

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths – 2Timothy 4:3-4

What does this passage tell us? At the consummation of time, certain things are going to happen — “They will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” Oh, that’s beautiful. That’s exactly what we’ve got today: Everyone hearing what they want to hear. Soft lights, soft music, and even softer sermons characterize our age. “They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”

One of the reigning schools of Protestant theology is Rudolph Bultman’s “School of Demytholization.” What did Dr. Bultman do? He took all the myths out of the Old Testament and all the myths out of the New Testament. When he finished, he didn’t have much of either left. So he remythologized the whole thing, and it was worse when he finished than it was before he started. We now have a world with a remythologized New Testament.

The Scripture says, “Lookout!” for one of the doctrines of the demons is to equate the truth with mythology. And that’s what we have, the equaton of the truth with mythology on every side. Where does it originate? From the freethinkers? From the athiests? From the agnostics? From the skeptics?

Oh, no, we’re getting it from the theologians — from the seminaries! All the places that should be telling us the truth, are giving us the lie that the Bible is mythology, filled with fables and legends that must be reconstructed to meet the needs of our age. The truth is equated with mythology.

Paul intended not on y that the Church be edified by this Scripture (2Tim 4:3-4) but that the Church communicate it, pass it on, and prayerfully mediate on it.

Do all of the above – then review th first four steps in the doctrine of the demons:

1. Jesus is a way, not the way
2. Get people absorbed with the future
3. Get people to play with what they have no power over
4. Equate the truth with mythology

Encamped along the hills of light,
Ye Christian soldiers, rise,
And press the battle ere the night
Shall veil the glowing skies.
Against the foe in vales below
Let all our strength be hurled;
Faith is the victory, we know
That overcomes the world.

Faith is the victrory!
Faith is the victory!
O glorious victory
That over comes the world.

- “Faith is the Victory”

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