Should The Church Change Because Of Social Changes?

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by: Timothy
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 Time: 8:54 PM
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Well, that depends on the congregation actually. If the church is a Bible Believing congregation, the answer is no. If they are a worldly church, they have no choice because of their own convictions or lack thereof.

I personally am a Bible believing Christian. A Baptist by name and a member and pastor of a band of born again, baptized believers on Christ Jesus. The latter is how we have been known over the past nineteen hundred or so years. And since the first century we have followed the scriptures as our only rule of worship and life, rejecting man's traditions over God's precepts and guides. What I'm saying about our history is true and provable.

In the first century we had the Apostles and the new testament letters in the Greek and the Hebrew old testament. In the second century we had the the old Latin (Itala) Bible translated into the Latin from the original letters at Antioch. In the seventeenth century we received the King James translated into English from the original letters, then checked and verified by the Old Itala. So we are sure of the content of the scriptures.

But today, are we as sure as we were? Well actually, I still am. But there are many who have started believing that counterfeits presented in the modern versions are actually the Word of God. My dear friend, part of the reason that churches are changing with the social winds is because of these new bibles. They don't have a firm foundation. Did you know that the manuscripts used to translate these newer versions are actually translations themselves? And they were translated by those who had a very shaky belief in even the most basic of teachings.

A man by the name of Origen around the year 240 AD was an Alexandrian scholar who believe that "God really didn't mean what He said." (Origens Allegorical Exegesis) Origen took copies of the Original Antiocian text and translated it into a more classic Greek using his own ideas on what he believed the Bible was actually saying.
Two men by the name of Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort then took Oregins manuscripts and created their own flavor of manuscript which eventually was used to create versions like the NIV, NKJV, HCSB, and the NASB. And to top it off Westcott and Hort had their own beliefs that clearly was manifested in their manuscripts. I'll cover these beliefs in another article but in short, they were more a mixture of Roman Catholicism and mysticism than bible believers.

Another danger is the large degree of Pentecostalism being mixed into our churches. These doctrines deny the very power of God to keep who He saves. It all boils down to this. Do you have a know so salvation or a hope so religion?

The scriptures themselves teach us to "Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:" (Proverbs 23:10) That ancient landmark which our fathers have set is the very same Rock Jesus said He would build His church on. And the fields of the fatherless are the sanctuaries of those that would just worship and conduct themselves any way that pleases the flesh. Well, I say that if any way will do, no way will do just as well.

So what am I trying to say here? It's as simple as this: If the scriptures don't plainly and simply point it out as the right thing to do, why do it?

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