Looking For Unity – 03

What is it Like? Seduction can be defined as energetic immorality: a moving of the heart in the sphere of moral indifference. Seduction does not lack the beautiful; indeed, it requires the beautiful. What it lacks is the moral. The Religion of the Great Whore (Revelation 17) spreads itself upon the waters through the seductive scheme of pressing the pleasant while diminishing the good. Its seductive gospel preaches the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man with the utopian promise of social unity. But, absent the soteriology of Jesus’ vicarious death and satisfaction; absent the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit, “the fatherhood of God becomes a sham and the brotherhood of man a cruel mockery” (George Harinck). The True Gospel calls out a people from the mass of humanity through faith and repentance; regenerates them into the Family of God and beckons them to keep this unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. While it seeks the good of all men, it celebrates the special unity that is only possible among true Christian Brethren.