Anyone following politics nowadays knows that the title Liberal has been replaced with the name Progressive. The name itself is not a problem providing that everyone realizes just what it means. In politics, Progressives want to move society toward a utopian existence through the imposition of "social justice," which is just a code word for the redistribution of the wealth. This can only be accomplished by a totalitarian government that is able to suppress the rights of the individuals for the betterment of the collective whole. It, therefore, must stand in opposition to everything Christian and its very existence depends on the suppression of the Christian faith.
Nations and kings have unsuccesfully attempted for over 2000 years to crush the Christian faith. It cannot be done! However, the church can be infiltrated and the tenets of the faith twisted in such a way as to deceive many people. But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
(2 Peter 2:1-2) This is done so gradually as to be unnoticed by most. Last night, for instance, I heard a young Christian man who wants to become a pastor telling a group that he thought a person who died for God's cause before he was born again would go to heaven. I corrected him, of course, by pointing out that you cannot earn your way into God's grace.
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