Church of Cowards by Matt Walsh

Author:Matt Walsh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Gateway
Published: 2020-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

The first principle denies the moral authority of scripture. And if the Bible contains moral error—and such egregious error—then we have no reason to believe anything else it tells us. If we cannot believe what scripture tells us, then we have no reason to believe that our faith is true.

The second principle exchanges objective morality for moral relativism. And moral relativism is incompatible with Christianity because, in the Christian understanding, morality is grounded in, and flows from, an eternal, perfect, all-knowing, and changeless God. If morality is relative, then God is either imperfect and changeable—or nonexistent.

The third is no better than the other two. Leaving aside the striking arrogance of such a view, it also supposes that the Bible is so confusing and incomprehensible that even its clearest commands and edicts cannot be known. In other words, the Bible may mean the opposite of what it says, and it may take a couple of millennia to realize it. So what opposite meanings will humanity discover in the year 4000? Perhaps it will turn out that the Bible’s references to Jesus as “the Son of God” actually meant “not the Son of God.” Anything is possible. And if anything is possible, then Christianity ceases to be intelligible or meaningful.

One of these claims, at least, is implicitly made every time a Christian preaches the holiness of homosexual acts. That is why we “conservative Christians” are so insistent in our rebuttals. It is not that we have some obsession with homosexuality, or that we hate gay people. We are simply defending the truth of our faith, which these “tolerant” Christians are directly attacking.

That is why I encourage Christians like Jen Hatmaker to drop the act and admit that they are not believing Christians. They do not believe that the Bible is a reliable source for moral truth. They do not believe in the Christian moral teachings that were unanimous across every church for almost two thousand years. They do not believe what the Gospels say about Christ’s own words, or else they do not believe that Christ is an absolute moral authority. In other words, they have the same view of scripture, Christian teaching, and Jesus Christ that all non-Christians do. And they are free to hold that view. Billions of people across the world hold it. I think they are wrong for holding it, but I would never be angry at a non-Christian for being a non-Christian. I do, however, feel anger towards apostates and heretics who lack the integrity to admit to themselves and the world that they are apostates and heretics.

Christianity would be greatly benefited if those who have already implicitly disavowed the faith would now make their disavowal explicit and public. The world would be benefited, too, because then it would have a clearer understanding of what Christianity is and what it isn’t. And the apostates and heretics themselves would benefit because then they would be forced to finally confront their position—and it is only in such a confrontation that repentance can occur.

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