From the 1950's through the 1960's, many of the churches that subscribed (at least nominally) to the teachings of the Bible, began to back away from the taunting and boisterous challenge raised by modernism and its figurehead champions, so-called science, naturalism, materialism and rationalism. As a result, the answer to the rising spiritual hunger in society was being offered (albeit inadequately) by the rising charismatic movement, which found acceptance in the Roman Church, the Lutheran Church, the Episcopal Church and liberal Methodist churches (among others).
Notice, none of these groups were strongly evangelical or fundamentalistic and were usually modernistic or cultic. Also, the people who led these sub groups within these denominations were usually unlearned in theology and Bible, though some of them may have been driven by an honest, but misled desire for Christianity.
This, along with the rise in Pentecostal type churches, which also lacked in substance, though they flourished in emotional and sometimes spiritual intensity, became a major source of a new theology that has warped the thinking of modern believers in churches of nearly every stripe.
Sinning theology rose up at this same time and along with these other hybrid types, led American churches away from a Biblical view of salvation and doctrine. Today's confusion and mixed theological bag is the result, along with the multitudes who worship at the altars of Darwin and the other prophets of false science.
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