Criswell: Who is a theological liberal?

                                                                                                                                             Vol. XIX, No. 1, January 2006

Dr. W. A. Criswell offered the following in his book Look Up, Brother!, p. 96.

(Even if you consider yourself a liberal and violently opposed to the stance I take, unless you fall in the following categories, I consider you my Christian brother, differing with me perhaps, but certainly not my enemy.)

He is a theological liberal who turns aside from the Word of God and substitutes for it his own speculations. He is a theological liberal who judges the Holy Scriptures by his own subjective experience and not his experience by the Scriptures. He is a theological liberal who is infected with the deadly heresy of universalism, the belief that all men are going to be saved anyway, Christ or no Christ, acceptance or no acceptance. He is a theological liberal who cuts the Bible to pieces, denying the supernatural, denying the miracles and revelations of God, and denying the divine inspiration of the Holy Word. He is a theological liberal who turns aside from the Great Commission and who feels no burden of soul to win the lost of the world to Christ.