TEXTUALISM;
FUNDAMENTALISM; WORLDLINESS

Then came the revolt. The human mind can endure textualism just so long before it seeks a way of escape. So, quietly and quite unaware that any revolt was taking place, the masses of Fundamentalism reacted, not from the teaching of the Bible but from the mental tyranny of the scribes. With the recklessness of drowning men they fought their way up for air and struck out blindly for greater freedom of thought and for the emotional satisfaction their natures demanded and their teachers denied them.

The result over the last 20 years has been a religious debauch hardly equaled since Israel worshiped the golden calf. Of us Bible Christians it may truthfully be said that we “sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.” The separating line between the church and the world has been all but obliterated.

Exodus 32:1–6; John 8:44–47; 1 Corinthians 10:6–11; Galatians 5:13

Keys to the Deeper Life, 21, 22.