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  • Ezekiel Bathfire
    Pastor for Diversity and Tolerance
    Christ's Rottweiler
     
    • Jan 2008
    • 22878

    #1

    Internet the Greatest Threat to Christians

    We at Landover have long held this to be the truth! The Internets are of Satan. They are under the direct control of the Forces of Evil who would take our young people and violate their immortal souls with hateful messages (see Lazytown with its overtones of pedophilia or the Teletubbies that reek of transvestism all the way to that uppity nigress Oprah Winfrey and her own views on liberal life!)

    We Christians must defeat the Devil with his own tools - Landover stands firm with the silent majority against the onslaught of the rampant demands of errant thought, blatant lies, and strange and unbelievable explanations. The youth of today has been subjected to science, medicine, alien philosophies, New Age garbage, harlots (often with only minimal clothing), sodomites, foreign gods, etc., in an vile tsunami of Biblical proportions. Is it any wonder that the youth of today are leaving Jesus?

    The Christian Post reports the following:

    Atheists and skeptics now have equal access to our children as we have, which is why the number of Christian youth who believe in the fundamentals of Christianity is decreasing and sexual immorality is growing, apologist Josh McDowell said. [edit EB - why are they 'apologists'? What has God to apologize for?]

    “What has changed everything?” asked the apologist from Campus Crusade for Christ International as he spoke on “Unshakable Truth, Relevant Faith” at the Billy Graham Center in Asheville, N.C., Friday evening. His answer was, the Internet.


    “The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not,” said McDowell, who is author of two books on Christian apologetics, More than a Carpenter and New Evidence that Demands Verdict.

    The belief or worldview, McDowell said, forms values, which in turn drive one’s behavior. The worldview “is where we are falling down the most anywhere in the world.” So what is the prevalent worldview in America today? “There is no truth apart from myself,” that’s what even many young “evangelical, fundamental, born-again Christians” believe, he said. [Edit EB: How difficult is it to believe that God made man from mud, that the ark was filled with every species and that Jesus came back from the dead????]

    While 51 percent of evangelical Christians did not believe in absolute truth in an earlier survey, the percentage escalated to 62 in 1994. In 1999, it jumped to 78 percent. “You know what it is now?” asked McDowell. “One of the most staggering statistics in history of the church… 91 percent said there is no absolute truth apart from myself.” [Edit EB: Disgusting!]

    Another study, added McDowell, showed that only six percent of all teenagers in America, including Christians, said there isn’t any truth apart from myself. There was a difference of only five percent between believers and non-believers, he noted. Moreover, less than four percent of evangelical born-again Christians believed the Bible was infallible in every situation, and 63 percent of them believed He is “a” Son of God and not “the” Son of God, he added.

    Atheists and skeptics now have equal access to our children as we have, which is why the number of Christian youth who believe in the fundamentals of Christianity is decreasing and sexual immorality is growing, apologist Josh McDowell said.

    “What has changed everything?” asked the apologist from Campus Crusade for Christ International as he spoke on “Unshakable Truth, Relevant Faith” at the Billy Graham Center in Asheville, N.C., Friday evening. His answer was, the Internet.

    “The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not,” said McDowell, who is author of two books on Christian apologetics, More than a Carpenter and New Evidence that Demands Verdict.

    The belief or worldview, McDowell said, forms values, which in turn drive one’s behavior. The worldview “is where we are falling down the most anywhere in the world.” So what is the prevalent worldview in America today? “There is no truth apart from myself,” that’s what even many young “evangelical, fundamental, born-again Christians” believe, he said.

    While 51 percent of evangelical Christians did not believe in absolute truth in an earlier survey, the percentage escalated to 62 in 1994. In 1999, it jumped to 78 percent. “You know what it is now?” asked McDowell. “One of the most staggering statistics in history of the church… 91 percent said there is no absolute truth apart from myself.”

    Another study, added McDowell, showed that only six percent of all teenagers in America, including Christians, said there isn’t any truth apart from myself. There was a difference of only five percent between believers and non-believers, he noted. Moreover, less than four percent of evangelical born-again Christians believed the Bible was infallible in every situation, and 63 percent of them believed He is “a” Son of God and not “the” Son of God, he added.

    “Now here is the problem,” said McDowell, “going all the way back, when Al Gore invented the Internet, I made the statement off and on for 10-11 years that the abundance of knowledge, the abundance of information, will not lead to certainty; it will lead to pervasive skepticism. And, folks, that’s exactly what has happened. It’s like this. How do you really know, there is so much out there… This abundance [of information] has led to skepticism. And then the Internet has leveled the playing field [giving equal access to skeptics].”
    There is more HERE

    I urge you to never look at the Internets!
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    “We must reassert that the essence of Christianity is the love of obedience to God’s Laws and that how that complete obedience is used or implemented does not concern us.”

    Author of such illuminating essays as,
    Map of the Known World; Periodic Table of Elements; The History of Linguistics; The Errors of Wicca; Dolphins and Evolution; The History of Landover (The Apology); Landover and the Civil War; 2000 Racial Slurs.
  • Johny Joe Hold
    Mayor of Freehold
     
    • Feb 2010
    • 12585

    #2
    Re: Internet the Greatest Threat to Christians

    What I hate most about the internet is the way Satan has made information available to anyone.

    Information can be dangerous when not considered first by a pastor. Internet searches should be done only in churches and under supervision of our clergy.
    Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

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    • MitzaLizalor
      Completely CRAZY for the Lord
      True Christian™
      • Sep 2010
      • 14270

      #3
      Re: Internet the Greatest Threat to Christians

      Thank you for sharing with us what a True Man of God can offer dissolute youth in today's awful world of sin.

      Your comments were particularly appreciated Mr Bathfire: I sometimes feel inclined to intrude comment or opinion in my posts, but know that it would be inappropriate and so never do.

      Do you know if Mr McDowell has any (secular) professional qualifications, for example in mathematics?

      ML

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