A New Understanding of Christianity!

For some reason, I always find it a bit troubling when pastors or religious teachers come up with new 'concepts' of who God is. When they try and convince people of their recent 'enlightenment' by making statements similar to the one shown below:

I've finally figured it out! I finally understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ...and boy have we all had it wrong until now.

Does that honesty make sense to anyone? Do you actually believe that it has taken this long for us to figure out the message that Jesus came to earth to teach over 2,000 years ago? Are you honestly convinced that a teacher or a preacher today would be able to understand the true Gospel more than some of the very people who walked the earth with Jesus Christ himself, and whom God used to write some of the inerrant books in the Bible?

I'm always weary of anything "new" when it comes to God or His Word. It's my firm belief that if it isn’t orthodox, then it isn’t God.

Now before you get bent out of shape or cast me completely aside as an absolute lunatic, let me attempt to explain what I mean. I don't think that it would, should, or could take us this long to understand what Jesus Christ was really trying to say in the scripture. It brings me great sorrow to hear pastors and teachers today trying to change the scriptures to meet their new (and improved) understanding of who God is.

God is the same yesterday, today and forever (Heb. 13:8). He is absolute from the beginning to the end. God is loving and God is just...Therefore the orthodox understandings of heaven and hell make absolute and perfect sense. We don't have to justify or change anything about these concepts, and it is dangerous when we try to "change" theology to fit in with today's new-aged post-modern all-encompassing universalist society that has a concept Jesus Christ that takes away from his very purpose and existence.

Watch the video below and then leave your comments...Maybe I'm the one who's way out of line? Maybe it’s me who needs to get with the program…