Contrary To Faith Movements

 

Due to the nature of some movements which use the name Christian, but for all practical purposes do not exercise Biblical standards PWBC/PWDOM find it necessary to allow the general public to know not only what we stand for, but what we must stand against.  We believe that these movements are out of harmony with the Word of God and the official doctrine and position of IFCA International and are inimical to the work of God.
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​1. Ecumenism
Ecumenism is that movement which seeks the organizational unity of all Christianity and ultimately of all religions. Its principal advocates are the World Council of Churches and the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
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​2. Ecumenical Evangelism
Ecumenical Evangelism is that effort to promote the gospel by bringing fundamentalists into an unequal yoke with theological liberals and/or Roman Catholics and other divergent groups.
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​3. Neo­Orthodoxy
Neo­Orthodoxy is that theological movement which affirms: the transcendence of God, the finiteness and sinfulness of man, and the necessity of supernatural divine revelation of truth; but, while using evangelical terminology, seriously departs from orthodoxy: in accepting the views of destructive higher criticism, in denying the inerrancy of the Bible as historic revelation, in accepting religious experience as the criterion of truth, and in abandoning important fundamentals of the Christian faith.
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​4. New Evangelicalism (Neo­Evangelicalism, New Conservatism)
These terms refer to that movement within evangelicalism characterized by a toleration of and a dialogue with theological liberalism. Its essence is seen in an emphasis upon the social application of the gospel and weak or unclear doctrines of: the inspiration of Scripture, biblical creationism, eschatology, dispensationalism, and separation. It is further characterized by an attempt to accommodate biblical Christianity and make it acceptable to the modern mind.
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​5.  British/Anglo Israelism
British/Anglo Israelism is not the name of an organization, but the name of a historical movement that has organizational manifestation in the U.S. and Europe today.  The key idea of British Israelism, also referred to as Anglo Israelism, is that Great Britain is the geographical home of the lost tribes of Israel.  The immediate implication of this belief is that it identifies the present-day Anglo-Saxon people as God’s Chosen People.  (Israel)
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​6. Replacement Theology
This view teaches that the church is the replacement for Israel and that the many promises made to Israel in the Bible are fulfilled in the Christian church, not in biblical, literal, Israel.  So, the prophecies in Scripture concerning the blessing and restoration of Israel to the Land of Promise are “spiritualized” into promises of God’s blessing for the church.  The prophecies of condemnation and judgment, however, still remain for national Israel and the Jewish people.  This view has been called Replacement Theology because of the doctrinal position that the Church replaces Israel in the program of God.  
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PO Box 2055
Holland, MI 49422-2055​

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