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    Dear Media: Stop Trying To Teach Christians Theology

    -Every journalist in America has been secretly attending seminary, and now understands Christianity better than most Christians do. This is the only conclusion I can draw after months of theology lectures from reporters whose most recent encounter with religious terminology was Hozier's "Take Me to Church."

    To those of us for whom church isn't a metaphor for sex, it's been a frustrating few months. First, the chattering class endlessly assured Christian bakers, restaurant-owners, photographers, and florists that Jesus would be totally down with making same-sex nuptials fabulous (and presumably, with paying the $135,000 fine for those who felt differently).

    Then, in the wake of June's gay "marriage" decision at the Supreme Court, we got an earful about how mean and un-Christian it would be not to attend same-sex "weddings." (Wouldn't you know it, we've been reading the Bible wrong all these centuries!) Then the Kim-pocalypse struck, and we were treated to smug editorials on how the Kentucky clerk's faith represents the dark side of Christianity, while those who ignore tertiary topics like—say—God's design for human sexuality in favor of social justice issues, are the good Christians. (I once was blind, but now I see!) But this month, the media got an opportunity to bestow their theological insights on us like never before. Did they ever.

    Shock: Christian College Upholds Christianity

    When Wheaton political science professor Larycia Hawkins was suspended after wearing a hijab during Advent, writers at outlets like The Huffington Post thought this headline was too good to resist: "A Christian College Placed a Professor on Leave for Wearing A Hijab."

    Except, they didn't. Wheaton has made it clear that it has no policy regarding Islamic religious garb, or as Hawkins calls it, "embodied solidarity" with Muslims. Instead, the administration suspended Hawkins for her bizarre explanation of the stunt:
    "I stand in human solidarity with my Muslim neighbor because we are formed of the same primordial clay, descendants of the same cradle of humankind—a cave in Sterkfontein, South Africa that I had the privilege to descend into to plumb the depths of our common humanity in 2014. I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God."

    Putting aside for a moment the question of how many Muslims would agree that mankind crawled from a cave in South Africa, Wheaton points out that its faculty and staff "make a commitment to accept and model our institution's faith foundations with integrity, compassion, and theological clarity." As part of the faculty's jobs, the college asks them to "faithfully represent the College's evangelical statement of faith." In other words, what Wheaton professors say in front of students has to be recognizably evangelical. Obviously, the administration felt Hawkins failed this test by equating the God of Christianity with the god of Islam.

    Ruth Graham at The Atlantic published a much-needed clarification that seemed like it might quell the cries of "bigotry" and "Islamophobia." Alas, shifting attention from Hawkins' headscarf to her statements only gave the media the chance to don again their theology professor bowties.

    I Don't Like Your Religion, So Change It

    "Instead of debating the wisdom of bringing guns to campus to kill potential terrorists," sneered David R. Wheeler at CNN, referring to Jerry Falwell Jr.'s recent remarks, "what about listening to the actual words of Jesus, such as 'love your enemy'? What about 1 John 4:18: 'There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear...

    http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/31/...ians-theology/

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    God is allowing all false teaching to come forth which will prove who is on His side... and who is on the world's side.

    Jesus did say at the end of the world the goats and sheep will be separated, and this is one way it is being done.

    So, this is nothing new and it is to be expected as many in this world further fall away from the things of God.

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