John Templeton

In January 2012 it was announced that Biola University, which claims to be an “evangelical” institution, accepted a $3 million grant from the Templeton Foundation to establish a “Center for Christian Thought.” The objective is to bring “world-renowned scholars together to collaborate and engage others outside academia on important questions facing Christianity in the 21st century” (“Biola University,” Christian Post, Jan. 4, 2012). The inaugural semester will feature “visiting scholars” and “philosophers Alvin Plantinga from Calvin College, and Yale University’s Nicholas Wolterstorff.” The grant will also fund the publication of material produced by the great thinkers. Biola president Barry Corey envisions the Center for Christian Thought as “a leading source of scholarship on some of the most important issues facing the Church.”

I have a suggestion for these great thinkers, and that is to issue a warning about all of the heresy that is represented by John Templeton and his foundation. As we have seen, Templeton is one of the greatest promoters of the New Age thought and interfaith unity.

Next, Biola’s great thinkers can take on all the heresy that has permeated Biola University itself, such as Roman Catholic contemplative mysticism. But we won’t hold our breath for anything biblically sound to come out of these “evangelical” thinkers horribly compromised thinking. Like the church at Laodicea, who was rich and had need of nothing, in reality they are “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked” (Rev. 3:17).

New Evangelicalism begin with the “small” error of rejecting “separatism” and “negativity” for a more positive, respectable face on its Christianity, and look how far it has fallen in one mere lifetime.

Independent Fundamental Baptists are trooping down this same path by the multitudes and the result will be the same. (See Biblical Separatism and Its Collapse among Fundamental Baptists, which is a free eBook at the Way of Life web site - wayoflife.org.)

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