Many 'so-called' Christians claim specific virtues found in their religious worldview ... while selectively rejecting the very truths that make those values possible.
This indiscriminate type of faith is subject to man's ever-evolving set of moral standards. Jesus described it this way ... These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. In vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. (Matthew 15:8-9)
'Pseudo Christianity' is distinguished by an ever-eroding reliance on the Bible as God's manual for life.
We are witnessing a prophesied religious system that justifies the very things that Scripture condemns ... For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their desires, they will gather around them many teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. (2 Timothy 4:3)
Today's church is spiraling out of control. Its egocentric theology moved from 'observing' Judeo-Christian values to 'ignoring' them ... then to 'resenting' them ... then to 'repressing' them.
The 'cost of discipleship' for true believers may play out for us as it did for Paul. Find encouragement in these words as the day approaches ... We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed. (2 Corinthians 4:8-10)
Those who are steeped in Pseudo Christianity have an 'easy-believism' because they are in fellowship with the unsaved world.
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