is no particular system connected with it. A modernist is not known for what he believes so much as for what he does not believe. For instance, first o f all, he does not believe in the verbal, plenary ( fu l l) , inspiration o f the Bible. And because he does not believe in the inspiration or supernatural revelation given by God to men, he de nies all supernatural accounts in the Bible: (1 ) the virgin birth o f Christ, (2 ) the miracles o f the Bible, both Old and New Testament, (3 ) the atoning death o f the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary’s cross, (4 ) the bodily resurrection o f Jesus Christ, (5 ) the second coming o f our Lord and His glorious millennial reign upon the earth, (6 ) the new birth o f the believer which is a supernatural work accom plished as a result o f His death upon the cross, (7 ) the personality o f the Holy Spirit. Some even go so far as to deny the personality o f Satan and the reality o f hell. Still others hold that certain books o f the Old Testament or N ew Testament canons are not inspired. Actually, there are as many shades o f modernism as there are shades o f gray. But even as any shade o f gray has a certain amount o f black mixed with pure white, so the shades o f modernism have varying amounts o f the blackness o f unbelief mixed with the pure white o f God’s truth and God’s revelation to mankind. Strangely enough, the major damage in the Christian church today is not being accomplished by modernists. Instead, the devil is using for his pur poses the rather disgustingly soft attitude on the part o f real Bible- believing Christians, both clergy and laity, toward these doctrinal defectors. They do this by fellowshipping with them and harboring them within the fold, allowing them to be heard and to have a part in evangelical circles. Years ago, the modernists labeled those who were endeavoring to hold the line in connection with evangelical doctrines, beliefs and practices "heresy hunters” . This term has come to have a very odious meaning. The tragedy is that in order to avoid being thus denom inated, all too many individuals refuse to acknowledge heresy even when it is staring them right in the face. But our Lord Jesus Christ Himself has given us the rather effective example o f heresy hunting. He hunted out and exposed the heretics o f His day, namely the Phar isees and those who consorted with them. W e read His "woes” against the Pharisees as recorded in the twenty-second chapter o f Matthew’s Gospel account. Indeed, the Apostle Paul, too, was a rather effective heresy hunter. As one reads Paul’s epistles, he observes that nearly every one corrects some heresy and denounces some heretics who were found in the early church. Under the inspiration o f the Holy Spirit, Paul exposed them and warned the people o f the church against them and their heretical views. And from Paul’s day to the present, the degree to which the fact that there were those willing and courageous enough to be called "heresy hunters” . They held to the truth o f God’s W ord even above personal friendships or the relatively easy manner o f life which "lives and lets live” . . . the line o f least resistance. Today our prayer should be that the Lord will raise up a generation o f staunch believers who are willing and ready and able to expose heresy wherever it appears and that God will also awaken the laity to the devilish dangers o f modernism and unbelief in whatever form it may appear and stand, once again, for the eternal truth as it has been revealed in the entire inspired Word o f God.
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