What is Deconstruction? (Deconstructing Faith)

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Deconstruction is a word being used by many who leave the Christian faith. They might say they deconstructed their faith, disassembling beliefs and ideas they had about the church or tradition, as if they experienced an intellectual awakening.

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Now it's certainly good to test faith and tradition to see if what we believe and practice honor the Lord. The Bible says, test everything.

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But the result is that you should hold fast what is good, abstain from every form of evil.

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Deconstruction is not doubt, examination, or asking questions. It's rebellion. It does not seek to understand, but undermine.

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It will not deconstruct, but demolish, until what's left looks nothing like biblical Christianity, deceived by heresy and sin, especially sexual immorality.

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According to Daryl Harrison, deconstruction is another woke term, attributed to Jacques Derrida, a staunch defender of Karl Marx.

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The evangelical church must be more discerning in this regard. What many call deconstruction, the

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Bible calls apostasy. In Jeremiah 2 .19, the Lord says to a rebellious people, your evil will chastise you and your apostasy will reprove you.

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Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God. The fear of me is not in you.

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Hebrews 3 .12 says, Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart leading you to fall away from the living

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God. But exhort one another every day that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin when we understand the text.