They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand.
(Isaiah 44:18)

Seeking Spiritual Loopholes To An Inclusive Religion Of The Love Of Self

Dr. Samir Selmanovic who serves on the Coordinating Group for Emergent Village contributes a chapter called “The Sweet Problem of Inclusiveness: Finding Our God in the Other” in An Emergent Manifesto of Hope a recent book edited by Emergent anti-theologian Tony Jones and his pastor Doug Pagitt. Selmanovic gives further indication where we are headed with this inclusivism of the Emergent Church when he denies the Gospel of Jesus Christ and shares with us his emerging church doctrines of demons:

We have experienced great joy in God’s embrace of humanity through Jesus Christ...but Christianity’s idea that other religions cannot be God’s carriers of grace and truth casts a large shadow over our Christian experience. Does grace, the central teaching of Christianity, permeate all of reality, or is it something that is alive only for those who possess the New Testament and the Christian tradition? Is the revelation that we have received through Jesus Christ an expression of what is everywhere at all times, or has the Christ Event emptied most of the world and time of saving grace and deposited it in one religion, namely ours...

Can it be that the teachings of the gospel are embedded and can be found in reality itself rather than being exclusively isolated in sacred texts and our interpretations of those texts? If the answer is yes, can it be that they are embedded in other stories, other peoples’ histories, and even other religions?...

God’s table is welcoming all who seek, and if any religion is to win, may it be the one that produces people who are the most loving, the most humble, the most Christlike. Whatever the meaning of “salvation” and “judgment,” we Christians are going to be saved by grace, like everyone else, and judged by our works, like everyone else…

For most critics of such open Christianity, the problem with inclusiveness is that it allows for truth to be found in other religions. To emerging Christians, that problem is sweet… Moreover, if non-Christians can know our God, then we want to benefit from their contribution to our faith. (191, 192, 195, 196, emphasis mine)

The logical theological conclusion to the emerging church and the interfaith goal seeking to bring all religions together is Dave Parker’s utopian “dream” of universalism in an Emergent Church of the Global Family. Apprising Ministries first showed to you the video clip below in Emergent Church: Dreaming Of Another god. A dream which I will add Parker also calls “God’s dream,” while this mystic muses:

In this community, young and old, Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal, upper class and lower class, middle class, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual–everyone–found commonality and community at the foot of the cross. And God was adding to their number daily those who were being saved. And by saved, I mean that a kingdom of God mindset was being sculpted, and refined and fleshed out in lives.

This is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ; but to those with eyes that see, not surprisingly centered as the Emergent Church is on self, ol’ dreaming Dave then dreams on, “And I thought to myself that’s the kind of community I want to be involved in”:

In this community, young and old, Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal, upper class and lower class, middle class, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual–everyone–found commonality and community at the foot of the cross. And God was adding to their number daily those who were being saved. And by saved, I mean that a kingdom of God mindset was being sculpted, and refined and fleshed out in lives.

Note that “salvation” is not being regenerated by God the Holy Spirit, but rather a neo-Gnostic “mindset.” Men and women, look deeply into the eyes of Dave Parker here and you will be looking into the very face of one deep within spiritual deception. As I said before, so I say again: The $evangelical$ community has embraced these emerging vipers of the Emergent Church, which is clearly a cult of postliberal theology, at their own peril...and...the peril of your youth...