CONSIDER THIS: Here’s What Those ‘He Gets Us’ Spots Don’t Get
If you watched the Super Bowl, odds are you saw at least one of those “Jesus: He Gets Us” spots that were designed to pitch a sanitized, non-critical version of Christ. Over at The Stream, John Zmirak lays out in convincing fashion why those spots just don’t get the truth of the Gospel:
One of Babylon Bee’s Satan impersonators. Go here.
It isn’t just a silly video paid for by goofball Christian businessmen with more money than sense. Nor a merely well-meaning failure, intended to reach the lost and scandalized. And we can’t even write off ‘He Gets Us’ as simply one more instance of liberal Christians trying to foist the Social Gospel on us as a replacement for the Creed. It’s all of those things, but more. There’s something deeper going on throughout our culture, a temptation that threatens us all. However conservative or “based” or “red-pilled” we might think we are.
In Flannery O’Connor’s brilliant if dark Christian novel Wise Blood, the protagonist is a disillusioned former believer, who feels a messianic urge and a rage at human wickedness. But the Christians he has known have all scandalized him by their worldliness and hypocrisy. So he starts up his own “Church Without Christ,” and finds “new Jesus” in the form of a mummy he steals from a local museum.
That impulse, to make up an ersatz church with a dummy Christ, is ever at our elbow, whispered by “angels of light” who tickle our ears with honeyed words. When the Church was still in its infancy, Saint Paul warned already of false gospels and antichrists. These we will always have with us. And at every point of the theological spectrum, from left to right.
Check out the following “Satan: He Gets Us” satire video, then click on the link below the video to get the rest of Zmirak’s excellent analysis:
Click HERE for the rest of the Zmirak analysis.
Christianity has been taken hostage by the Cult of Niceness. Problem is, it’s nice to be nice, but telling hard and painful truths is what Christian belief is all about.
No, you won’t get into Heaven because you’re nice. No, you are not basically a good person, but a wretch born into sin. You need to repent and believe in you Holy Savior, Jesus Christ.
If we were already such good people, we wouldn’t need Jesus so much.