Message #42427

[Psalm 51:17]

Only 1 in 3 Young Born-Again Evangelicals Believe Jesus Is Only Way to Heaven, Apologist Says

Cable, who recently published Cultural Captives: The Beliefs and Behavior of American Young Adults, focused the session on what he called "emerging adults," or young believers between 18-29 years old. He disputed arguments that evangelicals are well-positioned and that their numbers in America haven't changed much in the last 35 years, and brought up the work by sociologist Christian Smith, who is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society and the Center for Social Research at the University of Notre Dame.

And look at that "emerging" buzzword again - from what I've read about it, it pretty much is another form of communism, socialism, wealth distribution(not just earthly materials), etc. For example - look at the "emerging" markets since 2010 - a lot of the countries being invited in are 3rd world countries that TPTB are politically correctly calling "developing". All they're doing is cutting into the pie, where the other pieces belong to these Western first world countries, hence eating into their shares.

Now you're seeing this in the modern-day church system - they're bringing in all of these d@mnable New Age heresies(ie-Rick Warren's and Bill Hybels' Emergent Church system) into the sheepfold, that they're either forcing born-again believers to compromise, and hence forcing them out.

According to Cable, in books such as Souls in Transition and Lost in Transition, Smith identified five disturbing patterns found in emerging adults. The sociologist argued that most emerging adults are morally adrift – their morals are personal and subjective; they are captive to consumerism; they have little civic and political engagement; they believe that sex is not a moral issue, and they engage in intoxication, or fake feeling of happiness.

And remember the NIV hitting the market in 1978 - a false perverted version that made moral issues like fornication personal and subjective, endorsed consumerism aka the prosperity gospel, among other things. Marvel ye not that in our present day, we're witnessing these very things now.

Also - at my church service a couple of weeks ago - the youth pastor preached a sermon he got out of some youth devotional. From it he said how God created us to worship him. Now if THIS isn't heresy, than I don't know what is - b/c in the first place, we have to be BORN AGAIN, of water, and of the Spirit. Yeah, no wonder why the professing Christian youth of today doesn't know what true salvation is.