Earnestly Contending wades into the emergent or neo-liberal debate

Earnestly Contending has two great quotes which I will reproduce and some helpful commentary of his own:

H. Richard Niebuhr once described the modern gospel as consisting of

‘A God without wrath

bringing people without sin

into a kingdom without judgment

through a Christ without a cross.'”

.C. Ryle said this as part of a dissertaion on the essentials of a biblical faith:

“The first leading feature of Evangelical Religion is the absolute supremacy it

assigns to Holy Scripture, as the only rule of faith and practice…Show us

anything plainly written in that Book, and, however trying to flesh and blood,

we will receive it, believe it, and submit to it. Show us anything, as religion,

which is contrary to that Book, and, however specious, plausible, beautiful, and

apparently desirable, we will not have it at any price…Here is rock: all else

is sand”.