THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, July 4, 1994 TAG: 9406300010
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A8 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 30 lines
Jack Hebenstreit (letter, June 21) says that Jesus Christ was a liberal.
He was God in human form, free from sin and blemish. He was considered a radical because, much like today, the people of that time had spiritual blinders on and were blind to the real truth. He died for all of us because of that blindness! ``Narrow is the path to heaven'' sounds pretty conservative to me.
Martin Luther a liberal? He simply did not advocate the teachings of a church that had allowed paganistic rituals to become part of its tradition, or a church that stated that the only way to heaven was through its doctrine. Scripture states differently. The fact is, Luther left a church that was too liberal for him.
Our founding fathers liberal? They never separated church and state! They founded this great country on the principles of Scripture. What they left was a bigoted and liberal country that was in need of spiritual revival. Gee, does that sound familiar?
R. A. MERRITT
Virginia Beach, June 21, 1994 by CNB