荷蘭教會淪陷 - 一個毀滅基督教的實驗室

這個靠販賣罪惡而存在的光明會小國，又要在毀滅基督教的路上踏前一大步了！

24:9   那 時 、 人 要 把 你 們 陷 在 患 難 裡 、 也 要 殺 害 你 們 ． 你 們 又 要 為 我 的 名 、 被 萬 民 恨 惡 。
24:10 那 時 、 必 有 許 多 人 跌 倒 、 也 要 彼 此 陷 害 、 彼 此 恨 惡 。
24:11 且 有 好 些 假 先 知 起 來 、 迷 惑 多 人 。
24:12 只 因 不 法 的 事 增 多 、 許 多 人 的 愛 心 、 纔 漸 漸 冷 淡 了 。
24:13 惟 有 忍 耐 到 底 的 、 必 然 得 救 。
馬 太 福 音

一個毀滅基督教的實驗室
A Laboratory for Christianity’s Destruction
A church that lacks the doctrinal conviction and courage necessary to prosecute an atheist pastor for heresy is a church that lost its Christian identity — a long time ago.
一間教會缺乏教義的信念和需要告發一個無神論牧師為異端的勇氣，是一間教會失去了它的基督教身份 - 很久以前。

Friday, August 26, 2011
Translation by Autumnson Blog

As the BBC reports, some church leaders in the Netherlands want to transform their small nation into a laboratory for rethinking Christianity — “experimenting with radical new ways of understanding the faith.”
正茹英國廣播公司報導，荷蘭一些教會領袖想要改變他們的小國成為一個重新思考基督教的實驗室 - “以理解信心的激進新方法作試驗。
Religious Affairs Correspondent Robert Pigott tells of Rev. Klaas Hendrikse, a minister of the PKN, the mainstream Protestant denomination in the Netherlands. Pastor Hendrikse doesn’t believe in life after death, nor even in God as a supernatural being. He told the BBC that he has “no talent” for believing historic and orthodox doctrines. “God is not a being at all,” he says, but just an experience.
宗教事務記者羅伯特Pigott告訴卡拉斯Hendrikse牧師，一位在荷蘭主流新教教派PKN的牧師。Hendrikse牧師不相信死後的生命，甚至亦不以上帝為超能類。他告訴BBC說，他“沒有天份”去相信歷史性和正統的教義。 “上帝完全是不存在的，”他說，但祇是一種體驗。
Furthermore, as Pigott reports, “Mr. Hendrikse describes the Bible’s account of Jesus’s life as a mythological story about a man who may never have existed, even if it is a valuable source of wisdom about how to lead a good life.”
此外，如Pigott報導，“Hendrikse先生描述聖經對耶穌生平的敘述為一個神話故事，講及一個可能從未存在過的男人，即使它是一個如何過好生活的珍貴智慧來源。“
By any normative definition of Christian belief, Klass Hendrikse is an unbeliever, but in the largest Dutch denomination, he is considered a minister in good standing. As a matter of fact, he is not even unusual. A study undertaken by the Free University of Amsterdam determined that about one of every six Protestant ministers is either agnostic or atheist.
以任何基督教信仰的基準定義，克拉斯Hendrikse是一位非信徒，但在荷蘭最大的教派，他被認為是有良好信譽的牧師。作為一件事實，他甚至沒有不尋常，一項由阿姆斯特丹自由大學的研究工作定奪，約莫六份一的新教牧師是不可知論者或無神論者。
Hendrikse is very open about his views. In fact, he published a book in recent years entitled, Believing in a Non-Existent God. Conservative church leaders demanded a heresy trial for the pastor, but the denomination decided that Hendrikse’s views are too commonly held to be considered out of bounds.
Hendrikse對自己的看法很公開，事實上，他近年出版了一本書題為相信一位不存在的神。保守教會領袖要求對該牧師作異端審判，但教派決定 Hendrikse的看法是過於普遍難以考慮為出界。
In other words, the church has embraced a straightforward form of atheism within its own ranks — and among its own ministers.
換句話說，教會已擁抱一種簡單直接形式的無神論在自己的隊伍中 - 以及在自己的牧師中。
The BBC report also introduces Rev. Kirsten Slettenaar, another minister of the church, who openly rejects the divinity of Christ. She refers to “Son of God” as a mere title. “I don’t think he was a god or a half god,” she says. “I think he was a man, but he was a special man because he was very good in living from out of love, from out of the spirit of God he found within himself.”
BBC的報導還介紹了另一位教會牧師基爾斯滕 Slettenaar牧師，她公然拒絕基督的神性。她指“上帝的兒子”純是一個名銜。 “我不認為他是神或半神，”她說。 “我認為他是一個人，但他是一個特別的男人，因為他在生活上是很好的，從愛出發、從他在自己內心發現的上帝的靈出發。”
The Dutch ministers featured in this report dismiss the doctrines of biblical Christianity as “outside of people” and “rigid things you can’t touch any more.” Like the liberal theologians of the last two centuries, they insist that the “real meaning” of Christianity can survive, even if its central truth claims are denied.
在這報導客串的荷蘭牧師駁斥基督教聖經的教義為“人外之物”和“你不再碰的死板東西。”像上兩個世紀時的自由神學家，他們堅持基督教的“真正意義”才能生存，即使它的中心真理宣稱被否認了。
One layperson cited in the report celebrated the liberation of Christianity from truth claims, allowing her to recreate the faith “to my own way of thinking, my own way of doing.”
一位在報導引用的外行人，慶祝基督教從真理宣稱中解放，容許她重新建立信心在“自己的思維方式、自己的做事方式。”(註：既要信又要歪曲自己所信的，信來作甚，果真是被油脂矇了眼？！)
Professor Hijme Stoffels of the Free University of Amsterdam called the new approach to Christianity in the Netherlands “somethingism.” The majority of Dutch citizens, he explains, desire some form of spirituality, but not the God of the Bible. “There must be something between heaven and earth, but to call it ‘God’ and even ‘a personal God’, for the majority of Dutch is a bridge too far.”

Professor Stoffels went on to argue that Christian churches in the Netherlands are “in a market situation.” As he explained, “They can offer their ideas to a majority of the population which is interested in spirituality or some other kind of religion.”

Another pastor argued for using the words of traditional Christianity, but meaning “something totally different.”

All this is familiar, at least in general terms, to anyone who has been observing mainline Protestantism — in either the United States or Europe — for the last half-century or more. The central doctrines of Christianity are first sidelined and hardly mentioned, then revised, and finally rejected.

Behind that process is the argument that the world has changed, and that Christianity must change with it. Harry Emerson Fosdick, one of the most influential leaders in American Protestant liberalism, argued that the modern world has simply rendered traditional Christian doctrines unintelligible to the modern man and woman. John Shelby Spong, the retired Episcopal bishop of Newark, New Jersey, put the issue bluntly: “Christianity must change or die.”

Well, as even some conservatives left in the Dutch church recognize, if the church changes in the way the Dutch liberals are changing it, it is spiritually and theologically dead already. There is a new religion of “somethingism” in the Netherlands, and it is not a new form of Christianity. It is a new religion meeting in historic Christian church structures.

All this in a country that was once pervasively Christian. Theologian and conservative church leader Abraham Kuyper was the nation’s Prime Minister from 1901 to 1905. The Dutch once claimed to model a Christian culture. All that is now in ruins.

The radical experimentation of the Dutch churches may well be a response to market pressure, as Professor Stoffels explains, but it is the substitution of a new religion in place of Christianity. Christianity stands or falls on its central truth claims. Without the knowledge of the full deity and humanity of Christ, there is no Gospel and no salvation of sinners.

Of course, if you no longer believe in a personal God, or any existent deity of any sort, then you will not be worried about salvation from sin.

A church that lacks the doctrinal conviction and courage necessary to prosecute an atheist pastor for heresy is a church that lost its Christian identity — a long time ago. The doctrinal experimentation embraced by these Dutch churches is hardly limited to the Netherlands. Nevertheless, the Dutch situation makes one point transparently clear — this is a laboratory for the destruction of Christianity.

http://www.albertmohler.com/2011/08/26/a-laboratory-for-christianitys-destruction/

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