Trueman has his attempt at identifying the issues (while avoiding the personalities) that arise from the last couple of weeks of controversy over Genesis 1-3.
Even if you’re all controversied out, it’s an entertaining and thought provoking read. (C’mon he even mentions Sarah Palin.)
The value of Trueman’s essay is that it recognises that anyone who is going to make a universal truth claim based on something written in the Bible which cannot be emprically demonstrated before the very eyes of comtemporary society still has to contend with marginalisation:
To be blunt, those Christians who (rightly) point out that we live in a post-Christian, post-Christendom era, cannot have their cake and eat it. Being regarded as a cult was the flip side of the apostolic church coin. Standing against the dominant culture by believing that Jesus is Lord and that God has raised him from the dead made the church a cult; and these claims will always be regarded as indicative of a cult mentality by the wider secular world. Do not, therefore, gleefully proclaim the death of Christendom and at the same time lament the fact that we are in danger of being perceived as a cult. History, biblical and otherwise, indicates that such a posture is incoherent.
Read: ‘Life At The Cultic Fringe’ at Reformation 21.
mgpcpastor's blog 