A Rebuke of the Manhattan Declaration Signers

11/22/2009

Pastor Ralph Ovadal
68 minutes

The Manhattan Declaration is an ungodly manifesto, contemptuous of the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is an ecumenical treatise, complete with a Romish gospel and shot through and through with popish error. Those evangelicals who have authored this document and who have led the way in signing it show themselves to be in rebellion to God. It is, in their case, a brazen manifesto of treason against the Lord Jesus Christ. And they are not friends but rather are enemies of Christian liberty in that they disobey and provoke the Author of liberty with their spiritual fornication, even wresting His word and corrupting His blood-bought church. It is the biblical duty of all faithful Christian pastors to stand against the evangelical authors of the Manhattan Declaration and all evangelicals who sign it or promote it in any way. Such betrayers of Christ and His church must be separated from and called to account by all faithful Christian ministers and people. The Manhattan Declaration and signers can be found at http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/.

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Jeffrey Ludwig

12/27/2019 10:06:29 am

Dear Pastor Ovadal,
I agree that there are radical differences between evangelicals and the Roman and Orthodox churches. Marriage is a sacrament in the Roman Church but that has no biblical basis. Jesus says that marriage is between a man and a woman. Thus marriage is in the order of creation. It goes deeper than being authorized by a religious institution, but is a holy creation expressing the will of God. Whereas homosexual relations are sinful and do not express the will of our God. Marriage is not mainly a practice or a social institution to be sustained (which this declaration wants upheld) but is established by Almighty God whereas homosexuality is a sin.

The Manhattan document spends too much space insisting on the love of the signers for homosexuals.

Also when we talk of “right to life,” the Roman Church will have a different understanding of “life” than true evangelicals. The Roman Church I believe says that life begins at conception, but true evangelicals believe that Almighty God knew us even before we were in our mother’s womb. Thus abortion is an expression of utmost hatred for the Lord and not “only” a violation of the Ten Commandments which tells us not to murder.

....I began this comment to defend Mohler and the signers as not as wayward as you portrayed them, but as I was writing, the Holy Spirit revealed that you are absolutely correct. In writing to defend the evangelical signers of the Manhattan Declaration, the Lord used my own writing to show me that indeed your criticism is wholly justified. So I opened intending to argue with you, but am closing now to thank you for being a mighty instrument of God’s Truth.
Blessings,
Jeffrey

Rob Overgaard

1/7/2020 03:52:08 pm

Brother Ovadal,

Thank you for having the courage to say what you have here. And thank you for using the gift of teaching and your love for the Word to stand for the truth!

I believe you nailed it.

Your brother,
Rob Overgaard

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