What is wrong with this position?
Happy New Year ! I think there is no better way than to begin the year than with a post on the spiritual formation movement. So Dallas Willard is a great place to start. Much of what Willard and the gang are propogating is reducing the effectiveness of the Gospel and not acting accordingly as pastors because they are telling souls to trust in their own sins. This post and the next few are directed at an older article on Christianity Today from 2006. The title is A Divine Conspirator Dallas Willard is on a quiet quest to subvert nominal Christianity. Early on the article is when things start to get disturbing and make us think that it is no wonder Christianity is teetering. The Christian Church will always be threatened and will not fall but damage being done by this false teacher and others is troubling.
The article speaks of how Willard as a young man was concerned that he was abysmally ignorant of God and the soul. He then decides to study philosophy because he believed that the philosophers were trying to answer the same questions. So what problems do we have here?
Well a reliance on philosophers to answer supernatural questions is a gross error. 1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them. Because they are spiritually discerned. KJV
When we want to learn more from God we go to his Word. We do not consult Kierkegaard,Hegel, and certainly not Neitzche.I am not sure if I spelled it right I will look it up later.
Second his reliance on philosophers for the answering of this question can do nothing more than destroy faith because of dependence on such philosophies. The apostle again tells us in Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. KJV
This way of looking at the Christian faith humanizes and diminishes what the Christian faith is all about. I will continue in the next post.
