Proof The Bible Is True

I read an interesting article from CNN awhile back in which author Kenda Creasy Dean, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, warned that American teenagers are embracing what she called a moralistic, therapeutic deism. As she interviewed teenagers about their faith, she discovered that “many teenagers thought that God simply wanted them to feel good and do good.” In other words, they were fake Christians.

Now, let me explain. A fake Christian is not a struggling Christian, because every Christian struggles. Every Christian has times of falling short and sinning and slipping up. But that is not a fake Christian. A fake Christian is a poser, a pretender, an actor and an imitator. A fake Christian is one person sitting in the church pew but is another person altogether in day-to-day living.

Jesus said, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven” (Matthew 7:21 NKJV). Jesus wasn’t speaking of your garden-variety nonbeliever here. This is a deeply religious person with more than a passing confession of faith. The word Lord used here comes from the Greek word kurios, which implies divinity. It is a proper title for Christ. So this isn’t someone who is going through the motions. However, just because someone says, “Lord, Lord” doesn’t make him or her a believer in and of itself.

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