Decline of Biblical Christianity and Rise of Modern...

Christianity has quickly begun to lose its true meaning throughout the years. It’s when people use words like love and morals and common sense—they just don’t have the same meaning as they once did all those years ago. Christianity though, unlike the previously stated words, has been modernized in such ways that we have deceivingly altered things such as â€Å"The Ten Commandments† to foolishly fit our desired lifestyles. We have begun a modernization of Christianity I like to refer to as, Twenty-First Century Christianity. Christianity within itself has been the most complex simple part of life many have ever had to â€Å"endure,† until really the late 1900’s when â€Å"simplicity† became the American standard for most. First it was transportation†¦show more content†¦Christianity is no longer a category in religion, but also a category of specific people ranging from, yes again, modernized Christians who talk the talk but ha ve no desire to walk the walk; and those who are called â€Å"radicles† because they live out the Gospel teachings going overseas and devoting their lives to Christ. Now what are the differences between cultural (modern) Christian and biblical Christian lifestyles? Well as David Platt put it in his book Radicle, â€Å"We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.† Basically, David Platt was kindly beating around the bush about us as an American culture, his book Radicle being strictly about American Christian culture, being lukewarm in our faith, relationship and devotion to Christ in the way we live. 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