Many 'Christian' denominations have ushered into their midst all manner of vile Marxist thinking under the cover of a vociferously trumpeted assumption of unqualified 'love' and an equally unqualified 'love the neighbor' which permits any number of evil behaviors to be introduced into the body of believers. The crux is that a 'love trumps all' theological heresy has been allowed to be infiltrated into the church and this guts the moral force of Scripture, Old and New Testaments alike.
My first introduction to the subversion of orthodox Christian doctrine came from reading Christianity and Liberalism (1923) by J. Gresham Machen. It quite blew my mind as the date of publication puts the opus well before mid-twentieth century and as a personal note, just three years after my father's birth in 1920. This is how early the canker has been eating away Christian substance (and even before).
Dave, what exactly do you mean by “false pretense of tortured love”?
Many 'Christian' denominations have ushered into their midst all manner of vile Marxist thinking under the cover of a vociferously trumpeted assumption of unqualified 'love' and an equally unqualified 'love the neighbor' which permits any number of evil behaviors to be introduced into the body of believers. The crux is that a 'love trumps all' theological heresy has been allowed to be infiltrated into the church and this guts the moral force of Scripture, Old and New Testaments alike.
My first introduction to the subversion of orthodox Christian doctrine came from reading Christianity and Liberalism (1923) by J. Gresham Machen. It quite blew my mind as the date of publication puts the opus well before mid-twentieth century and as a personal note, just three years after my father's birth in 1920. This is how early the canker has been eating away Christian substance (and even before).
I would submit it has been happening since the fall.