Sent out by Moriel Ministries, J. Jacob Prasch and Scott Brisk.
The Manhattan Declaration (Website; Manhattan Declaration Summary pdf; Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience (Full) pdf) is the latest bandwagon that a number of Evangelicals are flocking to due to the serious lack of biblical discernment that has become epidemic in the church. Considering that a few of Evangelicals on the list of signatories have been strong defenders of Scriptural truth, one has to wonder if this decision was based on emotion rather than proper prayerful and Scriptural consideration. It is my opinion that those such as Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. and Kay Arthur clearly should know better.
Below are five responses on why Bible believing Christians should not “sign on” to this cause. As you will see, it is not the cause (which is quite noble and godly) but false unity with unbelievers that is clearly forbade by the Holy Scriptures.
Surely there will be some who have problems with the viewpoints presented and will disagree, but please realize that in each case the view presented is well referenced with Scripture and if you do have a problem, then it is with The Word of God, not man.
I pray this alert helps to encourage and strengthen your walk in these days of ecumenical compromise and apostasy in the church.
Scott Brisk
Corinthians 6:14
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Revelation 18:4
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues;
Ezra 4:3
But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel said to them, “You have nothing in common with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves will together build to the LORD God of Israel,…
See, The Manhattan Declaration; Our Regretful Inability to Become a Signatory, By Jacob Prasch
"If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumption, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved. Do not suppose that the Gospel is magnified or God glorified by going to the worldlings and telling them that they may be saved at this moment by simply accepting Christ as their Savior, while they are wedded to their idols, and their hearts are still in love with sin. If I do so I tell them a lie, pervert the Gospel , insult Christ, and turn the grace of God into lasciviousness."
