The Christian faith is not established by internal feelings, winds of emotion, or secret whispers passed down from sage to sage. There is no secret knowledge in the Christian faith, we’re not a secret body, or a secret society.
Our faith is established in history, our gospel an actual event and our doctrine a body of truth once delivered to the church and succeeded by faithful ministers of the Word.
Our doctrine is no secret, in fact the church has always made her doctrine public. During the time of the catholic church (small c) we had public creeds that excluded formulations contrary to the body of doctrine once delivered, similarly during the Reformation the churches expressed themselves in confessions. So, if you want to know what we believe, go to our confessions and creeds. Even non-confessoinal churches can loosely affirm confessional documents or use them as faithful guides.
Today, as evangelicalism drowns in the mire of post modernity, forgets its confessions it succumbs to the doctrine of the individual. Like miniature Popes, supposed Protestants will quickly affirm things contrary to their faith. Sola fide is denied, sola scriptura confused, and the reformation doctrines forgotten. And all of these things done in the name of Christianity, or a so called ‘evangelical’ no matter what you believe, as long as you agree, you’re an evangelical.
But as I said, even though our doctrines are public they are still maligned or outright denied.
With all of these diverse teachings, faithless garbage and demonic doctrines it follows that evangelicalism is not Christian doctrine affirmed, its Christian doctrine denied.
