WARNING: Many Christian Bloggers Are Not Saved

After blogging a little less than a year now, I have come to despise much of what goes on here. Here's what I hate: It's all so casual. So nonchalant. For instance, this weekend I went on a blog by a well known "Christian" blogger and was disappointed to find he recommended partaking in a sin. It's a rather fashionable sin. Only the most cosmopolitan among us appreciate its nuance. It's for the sophisticated, newfangled types. And those folks engaging in it are convinced that we who don't are obscurantists, hicks, throwbacks, fundies.

It's a sin that any student of Scripture will be aware of within the first six months of his/her new life in Christ. Myself and several others took issue with the practice, but the blogger and most of the commenters just poo-pooed us, kind of like we were just being picky, backwards, or wound a little too tightly. Maybe even rural.

Here was the issue: Can we purposely alter the Scripture? And if not, can we support those who do?

Is there even one Christian blogger out there who is unaware of all the biblical commands not to change the Bible? Well, just in case, I gave Scripture references.

It did no good. They didn't care. In spite of the clear teaching of Scripture, they continued in their sin. Not one even pretended to deal with the Scriptures I mentioned. Scripture didn't matter. They were too educated to be corrected simply by Scripture.

Today, I listened to a Paul Washer sermon in which he simply perused through the entire book of I John and listed all the times we are told that if we continue to break God's commandments, we are not saved at all--just religious. Needless to say it was a long sermon--73 minutes.

Most "Christian" bloggers are casual. Quite intellectual. Quite articulate. Quite well read. Quite casual about the religion they discuss.

Listen to what the Spirit of God says: "By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, 'I have come to know Him,' and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."

The bloggers mentioned above didn't even care what God had commanded on the subject. And they continued on doing what God has prohibited. According to God, they are liars and without the truth.

Do you find yourself casual about the things you discuss online? When you're met with a command by God that you have not been obedient to, do you look for a Christian t-shirt slogan to help you get around it? Do you look for someone to quote to support your position? Do you search for another verse to use against the Author of that verse?

If you do, God says you're a liar and the truth is not in you.

In Christ,
Phil Perkins.