MARCUS BORG: "NON-EXCLUSIVE" AND "PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN"

Marcus Borg tells us in Jesus And Buddha: The Parallel Sayings of which he is editor:

I write as a Jesus scholar and a devoted non-exclusivist Christian. Buddhists might see matters differently and I know that some Christians would. But the cumulative product of my thinking and experience is the conclusion that Jesus and the Buddha are the two most remarkable religious figures whom have ever lived. Moreover, there are striking similarities between them. I have sometimes said if the Buddha and Jesus were to meet, neither would try to convert the other–not because they would regard such an effort as hopeless, but because they would recognize one another. (Editor’s Preface, v., emphasis added)

Below you can see for yourself what “Progressive” Christians like Marcus Borg, a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar—who denies both the Deity of Jesus Christ and His literal Bodily Resurrection from the dead—believe. Under “About Us” at the website for The Center For Progressive Christianity we see The 8 Points. Here are a couple of them:

By calling ourselves progressive we mean we are Christians who…

2. Recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the way to God’s realm, and acknowledge that their ways are true for them, as our ways are true for us.

6. Find more grace in the search in the search for understanding than we do in dogmatic certainty — more value in questioning than in absolutes. (Online source, emphasis mine)

This is the same source of the spiritual cyanide spewed by Rob Bell to your young in your church youth groups, minus the different “ways”—well, at least for now. And what do you suppose that “dogmatic certainty” is that these progressive purveyors of doctrines of demons in their quiet arrogance eschew? Your answer is found in the statement “other names for the way.”

We throw out the very exclusivity of the genuine exclusive Gospel of Jesus Christ itself. Can you even be a Christian and not believe what Christians believe?

See also:

MARCUS BORG VS. JESUS

MARCUS BORG: BUDDHA WAS BORN AGAIN

ROB BELL AND MARCUS BORG

MARCUS BORG: JESUS AND BUDDHA WERE EQUALS AND CHRISTIANITY IS A WAY