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Chapter on Salvation Part 1

Relief without Repentance

1. Pain (v. 14)
2. Proposal (vv. 15-16)
3. Provision (vv. 17-23)

1. Folly’s Folly (vv. 1-3)
2. Industry’s Folly (vv. 4-11)
3. Wisdom & Folly Reprised (vv. 12-17)
4. Industry Reprised (vv. 18-23)
5. Failure Resolved* (vv. 24-26)

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The first in a series focusing on vv. 24-25.

Number 5 in the C&L Series

1. Introduction 
1. Popular Work
2. Basic Christianity 
2. Christianity and Liberalism
1. Apology for the Book 
1. Purpose
1. The most important word in the title
2. “Condition of Low Visibility”
2. Objections
1. Clear contrasts sounds mean, impious
2. Impact on church statistics 
3. Light is important to health
3. Worthy Pursuit
2. Liberalism is not a Subset of Christianity
1. Thesis: the great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology. This modern non-redemptive religion is called "modernism" or “liberalism."
1. Christianity and Modernism
2. (Actual) Liberalism is a good thing
2. Origin of Liberalism (Modernism) 
1. Naturalism
2. Changing Society
3. Can Christianity endure Modern Snobbery?
3. Goal of Liberalism (Modernism)
1. Save Christianity 
1. What is the relationship between science, modern culture and Christianity?
2. Science as the sole arbiter of truth
1. Science vs. Scientism
2. Lingering impact of Scientism in 2020s
3. Separate reason, science from faith?
2. Compromise with Modernism is Futile
1. Christianity  cannot be separated from Science!
2. Compromise cannot be confined; capitulation is inevitable 
3. Rebuke of Modernism
1. Christianity is historically defensible
2. Liberal religion is is not Christianity 
3. Defending Christianity is hard
1. The Reproach of the Cross; glory or cross?
2. What is worth doing? “the things that are sometimes thought to be hardest to defend are also the things that are most worth defending. In maintaining that liberalism in the modern Church represents a return to an unchristian and sub-Christian form of the religious life, we are particularly anxious not to be misunderstood”
4. True Freedom vs. Modernism
1. Modernism is the Enemy of (true Liberalism)
1. The cost of “progress” and “advancement”
2. Individual Flourishing?
3. Are the Old Paths inferior or just harder?
2. Tyranny of Majority 
3. Warning Re: Government Schools
4. Soul-Crushing Modernism 
3. Conclusion: let the Church be the Church and fulfill her spiritual mission

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