Changes in original intent....

I was thinking about this idea of how over time we seem to progress from religious conservatism to liberalism.

This came up in our Westminster Confession of Faith Study....how in the early 20th Century Neo-Orthodoxy which was too save the church ended up laying the solid intellectual ground work that has led us to deny, reinterpret and change the Bible to help us be accepted by the World. It's amazing how many paths we have leading off the way, rooted not only in this thinking but if you follow it all the way back to the orignal question and denial/reinterpretation of the Word of God in Genesis 3:1. In thinking about staying on the narrow path, one could not do much better than to reread Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress or even to attempt THE Strait Gate OR, Great Difficulty of Going to Heaven
The latest rising of this concept came up in Albert Mohler's post.

Scientific Extremism on Display — And the Prize Goes To . . .

You can see this also in how far Universities like Dartmouth and Harvard have moved from their original charters.

In my study for Sunday, I found John mentioned the world 58 times. These alone are from Chapter 17.

John 17:5
John 17:6
John 17:9

"I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours."

John 17:11
John 17:13
John 17:14
John 17:15
John 17:16
John 17:18
John 17:21
John 17:23
John 17:24
John 17:25

"O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me."