Battle of the Gods: The Gathering Storm in Modern Evangelicalism
Overview
The most detailed defense of the historic Christian concept of God written in modern times. Dr. Morey refutes the Open View of God that is now being taught in evangelical circles. Topics include: a response to Process Theology; Religion, Reason and Revelation; the Attributes of God; and the Testimony of the Church Fathers.
- The Gods of the Heathen
- The Finite God Tradition
- The God of the Bible
- The God of Christian Theology
Top Highlights
“First, there has been a growing denial of the inerrancy and authority of the Bible in evangelical circles.2 The history of theology reveals that whenever the authority of the Bible is denied, human reason takes its place. The end result is always some kind of rationalism. This always leads to finite godism because man becomes ‘the measure of all things’ including God.” (Page 10)
“But what is totally missed by the secularists is that no one can have a proper self-image unless he begins with a proper understanding of God.” (Page 2)
“We are ‘liberated’ and ‘freed’ from sin unto obedience to God. There is no concept of being ‘freed’ from God in the Bible.” (Page 20)
“Indeed, the United States became great because the kind of God in which the Pilgrims believed supplied them with an infinite point of reference, by which they could judge right from wrong in an absolute way. Thus they could have absolute moral principles. They also believed that divine absolutes lay in every area of life. Science, history, the arts, economics, and politics were to be structured by the absolutes found in the Bible. This is why the Declaration of Independence traced human rights all the way back to the Creator who gave them.” (Page 3)
“This insight supplies us with the answer as to why Western culture is so radically evil today. In plain terms, the West has forgotten God and is on its way to hell. And with hell as its inspiration, Western culture’s love affair with death cannot be described as anything less that a death wish. This is why it joyously embraces abortion, infanticide, mercy killing, euthanasia, and suicide.” (Pages 3–4)
Dr. Morey has written the definitive rebuttal to the 'god as finite' view.
—D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries
The proper Biblical teachings are advanced with all the clarity and intensity of a Pastor-teacher. Passage after passage is examined in its proper contexts and then marshalled to build a comprehensive and unassailable statement of the changelessness, wisdom and sovereignty of God.
—John Ankerberg, The John Ankerburg Show
- Title: Battle of the Gods: The Gathering Storm in Modern Evangelicalism
- Author: Robert A. Morey
- Publisher: Faith Defenders
- Publication Date: 1989
- Pages: 316
Robert A. Morey was an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of comparative religions, the cults, and the occult as well as on Islam. He is the author of over 40 books, some of which have been translated into Spanish, Swedish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Turkish and Farsi. Morey also ran Faith Defenders and was the founder of California Biblical University and Seminary.