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Emergent Deconstruction, Train Tracks to Auschwitz

July 2, 2013 By ELLIOTT NESCH

Postmodern liberalism, which has slithered into the Church with the Emergent movement, shares intellectual roots with fascism. One of the most popular postmodernist tendencies within aesthetics is deconstruction. Deconstruction is a postmodern and Emergent tactic of textual analysis, typically literary critique, that questions presuppositions, ideological underpinnings, hierarchical values and power structures within any given text. Deconstructive approaches apply techniques of close reading of the text without reference to information outside of the text or an authority over the text such as the author. One famous deconstructionist famously wrote, “There is nothing outside of the text.”1

Deconstruction ultimately questions all objective meaning and authority. Although deconstructions can be developed using various methods, the process typically involves demonstrating multiple possible readings of a text (the Bible in this case). For instance, Eric English of Emergent Village rails against the Bible as a postmodern deconstructionist saying, “The bible is not the WORD OF GOD.” Notice the lower case letter “b” in “bible.” English’s quote below epitomizes postmodern deconstruction speaking of the Church’s use of the Bible in terms of power structures and oppression:

The bible is not the WORD OF GOD. However, our elevation of the bible to almost divine status has seemingly resulted in the Church believing it is to be the moral authority over the world – as though they speak for God. We have equated the language of the bible with the Words of God. This has seemingly resulted in the bible being used as a weapon of power to oppress others. Incredibly, the Church’s oppression has not been limited to the secular world, but has even been used as a weapon to oppress its own people.2

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Filed Under: Apostasy, Brian McLaren, Emergent Church, Fascism, Hitler, Postmodernity, Rob Bell, Satan

HATH GOD SAID? - EMERGENT CHURCH THEOLOGY

May 21, 2013 By ELLIOTT NESCH

The labels Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Emergence Christianity, and New Christianity all imply innovative and progressive understandings of Orthodox Christianity. Like nailing jello to a wall, many have attempted to understand and define the Emergent movement only to be frustrated and confused.

At the heart of the Emerging movement is the worldview of postmodernism which teaches that truth is relative and subjective. This book by Elliott Nesch demonstrates how postmodernism is incompatible with a biblical worldview of absolute truth and the authority of the Scriptures on various topics including feminism, homosexuality, hell, mysticism, eschatology, Jesus Christ and the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and more.

In Hath God Said? - Emergent Church Theology, the teachings of the Emergent movement are exposed in light of Scripture. Also by comparing early Church writings with Emergent writings, it becomes evident that the Emerging Church is not preaching the faith once delivered to the saints. This book is currently available as a free PDF, or available for purchase as paperback or e-book.

Filed Under: Apostasy, Brian McLaren, Church Government, Contemplative Prayer, Deception, Doctrine, Early Church, Emergent Church, Eschatology, Fascism, Feminism, Gay Agenda, Gnosticism, Gospel, HBP Books, Hell, Homosexuality, Islam, Jesus, Judgment, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Love, Mark Driscoll, Message Bible, Mysticism, New Age, Obedience, Postmodernity, Prayer, Prophecy, Repentance, Rob Bell, Roman Catholicism, Satan, Sin, Universalism

The Spiritual Battle for God’s Word

April 9, 2013 By ELLIOTT NESCH

Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). Satan, on the other hand, came “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10). Satan “is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44). Today, Satan is repeating the lie told from day one in the Garden of Eden: “Yea, hath God said?” (Genesis 3:1). Before this, there were no questions or dilemmas. “Ye shall not surely die” (Genesis 3:4), the serpent told the woman, “then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). The attack and lie of the Serpent comes against God’s Word. The Serpent suggests that people can disobey the Word of God without consequence, that people’s eyes can be opened with some higher mystical experience and that people can be as gods. In other words, the Serpent would have us do what is right in our own eyes though it be contrary to God’s commandments. Satan seeks to give the creature the right to sit in judgment against the Creator and His word.

“He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44). The weapon of choice in Satan’s murdering and stealing and destroying is a lie. It is not a dagger, not a sword, neither guns nor bombs but a lie that Satan has designed for inflicting spiritual and eternal damage in the lives of people. “The devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). Today, many people are being devoured, swallowed up, murdered spiritually, and destroyed for eternity by the lies of Satan, little do they know that they are being told and preached by professing Christian leaders. They speak lies.

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