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The idea for the following article is from one authored by Steve Gibson several years ago. At the time he wrote it, Steve was sound in his teaching and behavior. Lamentably, he has since apostatized, and likely no longer holds the same convictions. However, the principle behind his material (from which I adapted and enlarged the following) is still as true as it was when he wrote it.
- Theistic evolution is wrong because evolution is wrong.
- Social drinking is wrong because drinking is wrong.
- Chaperoned dancing is wrong because dancing is wrong.
- State sponsored gambling is wrong because gambling is wrong.
- Legalized adultery is wrong because adultery is wrong.
- Legalized pornography is wrong because pornography is wrong.
- Legalized abortion is wrong because abortion is wrong.
- Legalized prostitution is wrong because prostitution is wrong.
- Legalized tobacco use is wrong because tobacco use is wrong.
- Legalized homosexual behavior is wrong because homosexual behavior is wrong.
- Legalized same-sex “marriage” is wrong because same-sex “marriage” is wrong.
- Postmodernism is wrong because modernism is wrong.
- Neo-Pentecostalism is wrong because Pentecostalism is wrong.
- Neo-Calvinism is wrong because Calvinism is wrong.
- Doctrinal “Unity in diversity” is wrong because doctrinal diversity is wrong.
- “Little ‘f’ fellowship” with error is wrong because fellowship with error is wrong.
- Fellowship with the “pious unimmersed” persons is wrong because fellowship with unimmersed persons is wrong.
- The Independent Christian Church is wrong because the Christian Church is wrong.
It is impossible to change sinful institutions, practices, or doctrines into those which are innocent by prefixing harmless “given names” to “sinful surnames.”
[Note: I wrote this article for and it was published in The Lighthouse, weekly bulletin of Northpoint Church of Christ, Denton, TX, February 3, 2008, of which I was editor.]
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