On the Edge of Apostasy: The Evangelical Romance With Rome

by Robert M. Zins

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963714163
• ISBN13: 9780963714169
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: White Horse
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

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The hard truth

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.