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By Ken Silva

The Emergent Cult of New Liberal Theology
As I have previously pointed out in Brian McLaren: The Emergent Cult Leader right in line with other religious cult leaders McLaren shows in his book The Secret Message of Jesus that he doesn't think the Church has correctly understood the message of Jesus down through the centuries when he writes: "if this reading of the Gospels is accurate, why didn't scholars see it a hundred or five hundred or eighteen hundred years ago?" [1]

This book provides even further indication that McLaren has rejected the proper Biblical theology recovered at the Reformation. As to why I have labeled this Emergent Church the new cult of liberalism months ago, despite waffling leaders in the evangelical community who apparently haven't the guts to do so, you also need to know that on page 12 of The Rise of the Cults Dr. Walter Martin (1928-1989), a renowned authority on religious cults having their origin in the United States, clearly explains that:

A cult, then, is a group of people polarized around someone's interpretation of the Bible and is characterized by major deviations from orthodox Christianity relative to the cardinal doctrines of the Christian faith,

It is as obvious as modern theology (aka liberal theology) trying to contextualize the gospel for its cultureand woefully failingthat Guru Brian McLaren alone fits the above definition. And while Emergents will mildly protest when one criticizes Brian, just try and express that same criticism about their golden Buddha Rob Bell or Erwin McManus and see what happens. You seriously need to wake up if you don't think they don't teach the same spiritualistic and human potential mumbo jumbo that McLaren and Tony Jones teach. The fact is that in order to follow these Emergent vipers the evangelical community itself is now turning its back of the Reformation while embracing the contemplative spirituality of apostate Roman Catholicism.

God condemned it before and through myriad deceptions arriving into your churches faster than we can even expose them for you the Lord is condemning it now. Listen to me; modernism/liberalism was about making the Christian faith more compatible with the so-called modern world of its time. And postmodernism/neo-liberalism is now attempting to take you onto the exact same broad and doomed road to spiritual bankruptcy. You erudite "scholars" who've been duped by this Emergent cult and its supposed "missional" and "transformational" approach to the "gospel" had better listen to a man who had four earned degrees, a professor who taught Christian apologetics at Simon Greenleaf School of Law and whose doctorate was in the study of the Church Fathers of the first five hundred years of the Christian Church. Translation: Dr. Walter Martin had just a bit more education into the history of what he would so often call "the historic orthodox Christian faith" than Brian, Erwin and Rob combined.

I close with an excerpt from his powerful and spiritually dead on lecture circa 1980's on what Dr. Martin personally had the guts to label "The Cult of Liberal Theology." Hear the words of a man who will tell you exactly how the spiritual fathers of Emergent operated. O, and as you read this also consider that Tony Jones is right now studying for his doctorate at the once thoroughly orthodox Princeton Theological Seminary mentioned below. This apostate poser Tony Jones wouldn't have lasted ten seconds under the great theologian Dr. Charles Hodge.

But also hear this Dr. Frank Page and other leaders within the apostatizing SBC, a denomination that had to battle these very same liberals in the 1980's and yet now are embracing their evil progeny: If you won't even listen to fellow SBC minister Dr. Walter Martin, permit me to tell you what the Lord Himself says to you right now "Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers." [2]

There is a progression that takes place in liberal theology: It begins with a corrupt bibliology, a corrupt view of the nature and the inspiration of Scripture. They have a corrupt theology because once you are picking and choosing from the Bible what you want, your theology has to suffer from it, because your human reason is corrupt... Then from this corrupt bibliology, theology, Christology and pneumatology liberal theology ends up in a complete lack of proper morality, and actually leads people away from what the Gospel says into unchristian and immoral positions.

An inside source tipped a friend of Dr. Martin's that Princeton Theological Seminary was about to reject the inerrancy of Scripture. This friend then commissioned Martin to make a study of every major theological seminary in the United States and to document for him what had happened. Dr. Martin continues:

it was amazing what emerged. Point number one; every major theological seminary that has turned from orthodox Christianity began with disbelief of Biblical doctrine. There wasn't a single exception. This corrupt Bibliology then lead them to the next step. Their Theology began to be touched by it, their view of the Cross, the Virgin Birth were both immediately questioned; then came the miracles of Christ.

[T]hey had emptied the Gospel of all its content; they were simply using the outward shell so that they go on collecting money from the people and the churches; because they knew that if the people in the pew knew that they were apostate, they'd throw them out. So the strategy was hang on to the trust funds; hang on to the money we've got; hang on the properties we control, and we will gradually educate the laymen into this new approach to theology.

And then finally we will take control of everything. The gradual process of feeding you theological poison until you become immunized enough so that you don't know what's happening to you. And when you wake up to what's happening to you, it's too late they've got everything...the Cult of Liberal Theology in the United States has deliberately and consistently followed this methodology to entrap, control and dominate the denominations and the churches of the United States and our educational institutions. [3]