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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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The hard truth,
By Patrick Hines (Cincinnati, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: On the Edge of Apostasy : the Evangelical Romance With Rome (Mass Market Paperback)
I've waiting long for someone to come out and say what needs to be said about today's ecumenicalists and their cavalier manner of handling the blessed Gospel of Jesus Christ. Though at times I do not much care for Zins' rhetorical style, he nevertheless has hit the nails on their heads. I, like Zins, have read Gielser, Colson, and even the likes of J.I. Packer in shocked amazement and even almost trembling asking God, "what is happening?" The obstinate refusal of these men to accept the Biblical correction offered to them by the likes of Sproul, MacArthur, Kennedy, Horton, etc is indeed frightening. Zins reviews several recent works in which Roman Catholicism is passed off by noted Evangelical scholars and theologians as, as he puts it, a "bone fide Christian communion." He points out how Geilser and MacKensie in their recent work "Evangelicals and Catholics: Agreements and Differences" completely decimate Catholic doctrines on the apocrypha, purgatory, the mass, justification, etc and leave them in powder on the floor and then non-challantly dismiss these as mere "differences" that do not really effect our "common core of beliefs" that we share with Rome. Zins demonstrates that the theologians' (like Geisler and MacKensie) refusal to denounce Rome as an apostate non-Christian religion (which is what it is) has trickled down to un-theologically trained laymen like Colson who have taken it to its logical conclusion. Colson, of course, has gone much farther than Geisler and MacKensie. Colson, amazingly enough, has gone on record and has refused in the face of many of the greatest living Reformed Protestant theologians who have tried to correct him to retract that "Roman Catholics and Evangelicals are brothers and sisters in Christ." It truly angers me that anyone whose heart burns with love for the Lord Jesus Christ and his blessed Gospel of Justification by grace alone, through faith alone, on account of Christ alone via his imputed righteousness alone could ever criticize the substance of Zins' appraisal of the situation facing Christianity today. May anyone who disagrees with Zins in his assessment that these gentlemen, scholars, and theologians are indeed on the edge of apostasy if not already over the edge confess that they are no friend of the Gospel. All Christians need to read this and find out where they stand.
7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Ecumenism at the cost of the Protestant Reformation,
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This review is from: On the Edge of Apostasy : the Evangelical Romance With Rome (Mass Market Paperback)
The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century saw the rediscovery and reclamation of the Gospel by men who valued truth over ecclesiastical unity. Today, however, the author sees Evangelical Protestantism threatening to undo the Reformation, all in the name of ecumenism. He is very critical of the book, "Roman Catholics and Evangelicals: Agreements and Differences" by Norman Geisler and Ralph Mackenzie, and devotes the first half of the book to giving a piercing critique of their book. He argues that although Geisler and Mackenzie offer an at times brilliant argument of what is wrong with Roman Catholic theology, their initial presupposition appears to be that Rome is in fact a Christian church and consequently any differences merely obscure, and are not fatal to, the gospel. Zins interacts specifically with the portion of their book which deals with areas of agreement between evangelicals and Roman Catholics, and argues persuasively that even in these areas, such agreement is really not to be found at all. He does not spend any time at all on the portion of their book that deals with differences between the two because in his words, it "could be cut away from this book and be relabeled: Why the Roman Catholic Church in Not Christian, and re-marketed as a good resource book for those who wish to better understand the reasons why Rome is apostate" (p.102). And the kicker is that Geisler and Mackenzie refuse to draw this conclusion themselves after all their damning evidence. They, like Chuck Colson and J.I. Packer, who are discussed later in Zin's book, seem to think that it is necessary to embrace Rome in order to join forces and fight the real enemy, that being the hordes of secularism who are threatening the gates of Christian Western civilization. In so doing, these ecumenists are willing to reduce the contents of the gospel down to its lowest common denominator. In redefining Christianity as merely "having faith in God rather than having faith in anything about God" (p.114), virtually no-one is excluded from the definition of Christianity, and soon we will be linking arms with the Mormons as brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. This book, a passionate plea for a return to solid Biblical truth and theological precision, is among the best I have read on the subject. It is not available new here on Amazon but you should be able to purchase it new at the following site:http://www.cwrc-rz.org/products/bk1.htm I can also recomment R.C. Sproul's "Getting the Gospel Right" as a companion to this book; it deals in detail with this same spirit of ecumenism as found in the documents "Evangelicals and Catholics Together" and the follow-up "The Gift of Salvation". Robert Zins' book is important because in these days of theological confusion he refocuses our attention on the number one question that matters: How can we sinful creatures ever hope to stand in the presence of a Holy God? Will we accept the covering that God Himself has provided and stand before Him clothed in the righteousness of Christ? Or will we refuse that, and instead hope to stand before Him, clothed in our own righteousness that Rome says we will have earned by our own good works, done in a state of grace? These are two different gospels, and I am thankful that Robert Zins does such a masterful job of making that clear.
14 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
On The Edge goes Over The Edge of Brotherly Kindness!,
By Douglas Gwinn (San Dimas, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: On the Edge of Apostasy : the Evangelical Romance With Rome (Mass Market Paperback)
Throughout this book, the author defies standards of theological and polemic etiquette by calling people names and judging the salvation of many beloved Evangelical leaders. He declares that Billy Graham has "lost the Gospel" (p.242) by virtue of his association with Catholics and personal friendship with the Pope, etc.The author is hyper-critical of most or all of Evanglicalism. He states that Charles Colson is an "apostate" (p.139), that Norman Geisler is (essentially) a fool (p.64) and has "betrayed the Gospel of Christ" (p.104) and that a host of Evangelical organizations such as Focus on the Family and InterVarsity "parade boldly down Main Street USA flying the colors of Romanism" (i.e., a false gospel). The book is mis-titled, as the author does not mean these folks are "on the edge of apostasy," but that they are in the enemy camp already, on the road of Roman Catholicism. They are already over the edge. As a Christian (and Evangelical) I am embarrassed that this book exists. It is a poor witness to Catholics. It sets aside the love of God for an argument, which it also loses on account of vituperation. In real life, Evangelicals do not cast aspersions on eachother, on Catholics, or even on author Robert Zins because Christ calls us to a life of love. But, if you want to see a case of Reformed (anti-Catholic) Theology gone amuck, On the Edge of Apostasy is a "must-read."
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