Purpose Driven or Scripture Driven? - Way of Life Literature

eferred to as God in the Scriptures (F.E.A. News & Views,Fundamental Evangelistic Association, Nov-Dec. 1976).In an article in the December 1979 issue of the AmericanBaptist Magazine, Dr. L. Howard McBain, president of theAmerican Baptist Seminary of the West. McBain, stated thatthe Bible does not teach that Jesus was God.In 1980, American Baptist Dr. Ralph Wendell Burhoereceived the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion for his“revolutionary hypothesis that finds religion central to theevolutionary emergence of civilized humanity” (EP NewsService, May 31, 1980).The American Baptist Biennial Convention in 1981featured Rosemary Radford Reuther, a Roman Catholicfeminist whose “language often sounds more like it belongsin the gutter than in the church” (Foundation magazine,Fundamental Evangelistic Association, January-February1981, p. 18).American Baptist professor Harvey Cox of HarvardUniversity is a notorious modernist. In his book The SecularCity, he claimed that “the world, not the church, is the properfocus of Christian life” and “the world of politics is aprimary sphere of God’s liberating work today” (quoted fromRichard Quebedeaux, The Worldly Evangelicals, 1978, p.19). In his book The Feast of Fools, Cox referred to JesusChrist as a harlequin and a clown. Cox does not believe thatfollowers of pagan religions are on their way to Hell. He wasa speaker at the World Congress for the Synthesis of Scienceand Religion in India in 1986. The conference was arrangedby a Hindu organization.The June 1991 issue of WATCHword, a women’s ministrypaper of the ABC, stated: “What I have come to love aboutScripture is the fact that it is not inerrant. That it is not76