Appeasement Theology (Part 2)

Appeasement Theology sounds good. It's popping up everywhere. It appeals to the masses. It says, "hey you're not wrong. We're all right." It says that any thinking that excludes another way of thinking is bad. If someone claims to present the "truth" then they are evil, because they have claimed a monopoly on "truth." While they claim to know the truth, they claim that everything else is a lie.

It's funny to me, how exclusive this inclusive thinking is. The new tolerance is defined as: "tolerate everything except intolerance." But isn't the except part intolerant?

Appeasement Theology castrates the power of the gospel. Because while Jesus makes an exclusive claim of being the only way, the only truth and the only life, his call to repentance is supposed to go out to all - inclusively. The message itself is not exclusive. The apprehending of eternal life is exclusive to those who will accept His great call. However, the offer is not exclusive.

The power of the Gospel is that it is unique to the one true God. Jesus claims that He alone is the way, the truth, and the life. That no one comes to the Father, except through Him.

Call that exclusive if you want, but I'll call it specific. God is a God of love. His desire is that none should perish, but that all would come to repentance. He's provided a way for all to have life, but it is through His Son.

13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. (John 7:13-14)