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s the BBC reports, some of bounds.
church leaders in the In other words, this Denomina-
ANetherlands want to tion has embraced a straight-
rethink Christianity: “experi- forward form of atheism within
menting with radical new ways its own ranks - and among its
of understanding the faith.” own ministers!
Klaas Hendrikse, a minister of All this is familiar to anyone who
the mainstream Protestant has been observing mainline
Denomination in the Nether- Protestantism - in either the
lands doesn’t believe in life after United States or Europe - for the
death, or even in God as a last half-century or more. The
supernatural being. He told the central doctrines of Christianity
BBC that he has “no talent” for are first sidelined and hardly
believing historic and orthodox mentioned, then revised, and
doctrines. “God is not a being at finally rejected.
all,” he says, “but just an If the Church changes in the way
experience.” the Dutch liberals are changing once pervasively Christian. humanity of Christ, there is no
Hendrikse published a book it, it is spiritually and theolo- Theologian and conservative Gospel and no salvation.
titled Believing in a Non-Existent gically dead. There is a new church leader Abraham Kuyper www.prophecynewswatch.com
God. Conservative church religion of “something-ism” in was the nation’s prime minister
leaders demanded a heresy trial the Netherlands, and it is not a from 1901 to 1905. “Beware of false teachers who
for the minister, but the new form of Christianity - it is a The Dutch once claimed to come disguised as harmless
Denomination decided that new religion meeting in historic model a Christian culture. All that sheep, but are wolves and will
Hendrikse’s views are too com- Christian church buildings. now lies in ruins. Without the tear you apart” (Matthew 7:15,
monly held to be considered out All this in a country that was knowledge of the full Deity and Life Application Bible).