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ROBERT SCHULLER MENTOR TO RICK WARREN ON THE LOVE OF MAN: CHRIST DIED FOR NEGATIVE SELF-IMAGE

For men shall be lovers of their own selves. (2 Timothy 3:2)

I'm afraid that if you don't recognize the following semi-pelagian doctrine of demons in the love of the self which is at the very corrupt heart of the $new evangelicalism$ preached by men like Rick Warren and Brian McLaren and Rob Bell and Erwin Raphael McManus and Joel Osteen you are a dreamer:

If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us--possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.
Original sin is not a mean streak; it is a nontrusting inclination. The core of original sin, then is LOT--Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a "negative self-image," but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. If this were so, then truly, the human being is totally depraved. But positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability. I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with nonjudgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by him is to be born again.
(Robert Schuller, Self-Esteem: The New Reformation, 66,67, emphasis mine)

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath (Ephesians 2:3).


See also:

RICK WARREN: THE NEW CHARLES FINNEY

“WHAT IS THE REAL CHRIST-CALL TO SELF-DENIAL?,” ASKS MENTOR TO RICK WARREN AND FATHER OF THE NEW REFORMATION ROBERT SCHULLER

Posted by Ken Silva, pastor-teacher at June 7, 2007 10:41 AM
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