One plague of our age is the widespread dislike to what men are pleased to call dogmatic theology. In the place of it, the idol of the day is a kind of jellyfish Christianity – a Christianity without bone, or muscle, or sinew, – without any distinct teaching about the atonement or the work of the Spirit, or justification, or the way of peace with God – a vague, foggy, misty Christianity, of which the only watchwords seem to be, “You must be…liberal and kind. You must condemn no man’s doctrinal views. You must consider everybody is right and nobody is wrong.”
The Upper Room, “One Blood”, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1970], 99.
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The statement, “You must consider everybody is right and nobody is wrong,” trips over itself when different views and theologies contradict each other explicitly on key doctrinal cornerstones.
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So glad I found your site.
Thanks Jules! Glad you found your way here.
This was true in J.C. Ryle’s time and its just as true today. All of this talk about “tolerance” drives me up the wall.