“Christianity is decaying and going down the gutter, because the god of modern Christianity, is not the God of the bible”— A.W. Tozer (Pastor)… Is Tozer correct?
Christian rebuttal,
Premise: A “decaying” Christianity is theologically and spiritually impossible.
Pastor Tozer, if the quote is accurate, obviously does NOT understand the immutability of true Christianity. Christianity is a personal, intimate, relationship with the Father by faith in the Son and daily sanctification performed by the Holy Spirit in the life of the redeemed in Jesus.
Christianity is NOT a mass “religion;” therefore, its efficacy, its viability, its future, are not reliant upon an organization, council, group think, denominational affiliation or Church but Christianity, as a personal relationship with Elohim by faith, will be relevant throughout Eternity as intimate relationship through faith will, forever, be the KEY to the Father’s heart. If one serves a god other than the Father, Son, Spirit, as clearly introduced within the Canon of Scripture, they are not a Christian but a cult, a religion; therefore, Tozer’s warning is baseless, logically irrelevant.
Religions and sects and cults have a form of godliness but deny the Truth of the Living God, Elohim; therefore, such religions have ZERO relevance in Time and Eternity as they are reliant upon self-righteousness to earn one’s audience with a god or deity; this, an insult, an affront, to the Living God, Elohim; therefore, the theological premise upon which Christianity exists, grace through faith, is eternal Truth that is immutable and NOT subject to decay or the gutter (John 3; Galatians 2:16).
There is one Christianity; that is, intimate, eternal, relationship with Elohim by grace through faith in Messiah Jesus…there is no “modern Christianity” only a facade purporting itself as legitimate Christianity and accepted by the spiritually dead, the naïve, the spiritually ignorant, the demonically deceived, and often cited by those with a religious motive to denigrate true Christianity, the culprits are overwhelming religionists in Judaism, Islam, Atheism, Secular Humanism.
If you are redeemed by faith in Jesus as your Messiah and the Holy Spirit, who is Elohim, indwells you, you ARE “Christianity” and your faith, your intimate relationship with the Father by faith in the Son is “Guaranteed” by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, it is better to take refuge in Jesus than put your confidence in sinful, fallible, men and their illogical ramblings about the faltering of the Christian faith (Psalm 118:8).
Judaism-Islam-Catholicism are prominent examples of “religions of decay” in the World today as their constituency adhering to their tenets, their doctrines of demons, works and self-righteousness, will not find life in the Kingdom (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10; James 2:10; Galatians 2:16).
