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course not. His published critiques of popular evangelical leaders contain
many valid points. It is true that we live in an age of people with itching
ears (2 Timothy 4:3-4). Much of the popular preaching in so-called "evangelical"
culture today is either woefully shallow, bankrupt of solid biblical content,
or out-and-out heresy. The modern "evangelical movement" is by no
means synonymous with Christ's true church. My
own annotated Web links point out hundreds of fallacies that have gained
popularity in contemporary evangelical culture. Some of these, according to
the Bible, are damnable (2 Peter 2:1). In particular, we who love Christ are
to have nothing to do with those who preach a different gospel (by altering
the message of justification by faith or denying the centrality of God's grace—Romans
4:4-5; Galatians 1:8-9), or those who set forth a different Christ (by fatally
corrupting the doctrine of the incarnation, diminishing Christ's deity, or
otherwise redefining the Godhead—2 John 7-11; John 8:24; 1 John 2:22).
But Darwin himself fails both standards, because his teaching nullifies the
grace of God and fatally corrupts what the Bible teaches about the Godhead.
Darwin is simply a wolf who takes advantage of those who are unwise, poorly
taught, and biblically ignorant, in order to abuse and devour them. He is
not a shepherd who is in any way qualified to lead and feed Christ's sheep.
Whatever "truth" might be included in his message is so tainted
with error, inaccuracy, illogic, vainglory, human speculations, and fleshly
distortions that it is a seriously deadly poison. The proof is in the fruit
it produces (Matthew 7:16-18): division, hatred, strife, seditions, heresies,
contentions, outbursts of wrath, and the like. These are works of the flesh
(Galatians 5:19-21). Meanwhile, the fruit of the Spirit ("love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, [and]
self-control"—vv. 22-23) is virtually absent from the visible lives
of Darwin's disciples.