New Evangelicalism
Satan tries to redefine
the term “radical”
The following excerpt is from Chapter 15 of Dr. Hyles' excellent book, Jack Hyles Speaks On Biblical Separation.
Satan
has always wanted to dilute the message of God through the unequal yoke. He
asked his liberal prophets to extend a hand to the fundamental prophet so that
they might work under the same yoke. The fundamentalists in general refused his
offers, but the Devil was not through. If he could not get the fundamentalists
to join hands with the liberals, he called in another to join hands with the
liberal and to offer his hand to the fundamentalist. This other was the
neo-orthodox which means, "new orthodoxy." This is the one who believes wrong
but talks right. He talks about an inspired Bible, but he does not mean a
verbally inspired Bible. He talks about a Heaven but not the one of the Bible.
He talks about a hell that has no fire. He is liberal in his heart but is
deceitful with his mouth. He joins hands with the liberal and then extends his
hand to the fundamentalist. All the time Satan is trying to get the
fundamentalist in the same camp with the liberal.
For the most part, however, this failed. The fundamentalist refused to join hands with the neo-orthodox, but Satan was not through. He then brought someone else into view. We call him the neo-evangelical. He is the one who believes right but talks wrong. He is probably saved, believes the verbal inspiration and other fundamentals of the faith, but he is not willing to bear the reproach of Christ and the stigma of separation, so he joins hands with the neo-orthodox who has already joined hands with the liberal. He then offers his hand to the fundamentalist. Satan knows that if the fundamentalist can join hands with the neo-evangelical who has joined hands with the neo-orthodox who had joined hands with the liberal, then he will have the fundamentalist and the liberal in the same camp. How shrewd he is!
However, in most instances, he failed again. The fundamentalist refused the enticement of the neo-evangelical, but Satan is not finished yet. He must find a link that will join the fundamentalist with the liberal. Sad to say, he found that link. He placed a politician between those who joined hands with the neo-evangelical. He then offered his hand to the fundamentalist and gullibly the fundamentalist accepted! Now the fundamentalist joins hands with the politician who joins hands with the neo-evangelical who has joined hands with the neo-orthodox who has joined hands with the liberal, and we find fundamentalists, liberals, new-evangelicals and neo-orthodox joining together in the same yoke in order to get better men in office. Now we have Baptist preachers, Catholic preachers, liberal preachers and even cultists joining together in a common cause.
“But,” cries someone, “this is not a religious endeavor. This is a secular endeavor.” The truth is, however, that everything is sacred to the man of God. It is also true that the more we are around evil and evildoers, the less sinful sin becomes. These false teachers are usually likable people, and once we learn to like them, their doctrine will not be quite so bad.
...One never catches good health. If someone has hepatitis, he is not asked to get near someone who doesn't have hepatitis in order that the healthy person may cure the diseased. You don't cure mononucleosis by having someone with good health breathe on him. One hepatitis plus one non-hepatitis equals two hepatitis. One mononucleosis plus one non-mononucleosis equals two mononucleosis. You don't fall upward. No one falls and stumbles on the ceiling. The law of gravity is a downward pull. God's people cannot associate with the unbelieving, Christ-rejecting world without being adversely influenced and finally contaminated. This is why people who are in denominations which have gone liberal should withdraw and become fundamentalists. It is not believing right within the movement that makes one a fundamentalist; it is the withdrawal FROM the movement and returning to the original dogma, practices and convictions of the apostate group that gives one the title of fundamentalist. The basic difference is the degree of importance that one places on the doctrine of separation.
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