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Progressivism is a stench within the Church that denigrates biblical promises by filtering them through the world’s values. And while it hates almost all faithful biblical doctrine, it seems to have particular ire for the doctrine of repentance unto life, that saving grace “by which a sinner, being truly aware of his sinfulness understands the mercy of God in Christ, grieves for and hates his sins, and turns from them to God, fully intending and striving for a new obedience” (Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 87).
So why does progressivism hate repentance? Let me give you three reasons.
1. Progressivism is parasitic
Progressive “Christianity” lives like a ravenous flea on the back of your most faithful family dog. It twists the biblical meaning of love and perverts biblical doctrine to serve political ends.
Take, for example, the gay rights slogan “love is love.” It is meant to level the playing field and say that love is the same in all situations, regardless of subject or object. If this is true — if love is love — then condemning homosexuality is hateful. But if God is love (1 John 4:16), then loving what God hates is violence against your soul (Isaiah 5:20) as well as your neighbor (Romans 1:32).
We saw this parasitic faith clearly during the COVID era. Remember how, in 2021, getting the jab became moralized as loving your neighbor? If healthcare falls under the sovereign sphere of the family — which is its biblical categorization — then adhering to governmental overreach never exemplifies obedience to God’s moral law, the Ten Commandments. Get the jab or don’t get the jab, but pastors who posted manipulative pictures of themselves with a bandaid covering their upper arm declaring to the world that getting the jab is loving your neighbor confuses Law and Gospel.
2. Progressivism replaces the biblical Triune God with ‘Jesus, my imaginary friend’ and advances a diabolical separation between faith and redemption
Continued below.
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So why does progressivism hate repentance? Let me give you three reasons.
1. Progressivism is parasitic
Progressive “Christianity” lives like a ravenous flea on the back of your most faithful family dog. It twists the biblical meaning of love and perverts biblical doctrine to serve political ends.
Take, for example, the gay rights slogan “love is love.” It is meant to level the playing field and say that love is the same in all situations, regardless of subject or object. If this is true — if love is love — then condemning homosexuality is hateful. But if God is love (1 John 4:16), then loving what God hates is violence against your soul (Isaiah 5:20) as well as your neighbor (Romans 1:32).
We saw this parasitic faith clearly during the COVID era. Remember how, in 2021, getting the jab became moralized as loving your neighbor? If healthcare falls under the sovereign sphere of the family — which is its biblical categorization — then adhering to governmental overreach never exemplifies obedience to God’s moral law, the Ten Commandments. Get the jab or don’t get the jab, but pastors who posted manipulative pictures of themselves with a bandaid covering their upper arm declaring to the world that getting the jab is loving your neighbor confuses Law and Gospel.
2. Progressivism replaces the biblical Triune God with ‘Jesus, my imaginary friend’ and advances a diabolical separation between faith and redemption
Continued below.
Why Progressivism Hates Repentance
What drives the progressive movement to reject one of Christianity’s most transformative doctrines, and how does this distort love and faith, and erode the gospel’s power to transform?
