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Why did Christianity fail to win India?
It failed because the Western Church lost its universities to arrogant but barren Rationalism.
Oxford and Cambridge had been lost before William Carey founded the Serampore mission and University in the 1800s. In the USA, the Trinitarian Christianity lost Harvard in 1805. Many British civil servants and college chaplains who came to serve India, especially after 1813, came as Unitarians. They taught Theism but rejected Christ’s divinity and turned Indian thought leaders such as Raja Rammohan Roy and Tagore away from biblical Christianity.
Not long after Western Christianity began educating India, it abandoned its own universities and retreated into theological seminaries. The seminaries put God’s light into an academic silo. As a result, Western Christianity lost interest in Truth and misinterpreted the Protestant Reformation as a movement that championed “Faith Alone.”
Evangelists misread 1 Timothy 2:4 as God “wants all men to be saved and go to heaven.” They ignored what Paul actually says: God “wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.” For that reason, Paul goes on to say in verse 7 that he was appointed an apostle—a teacher of truth to gentiles who believe in myth.
In 1 Timothy 3:15, Paul goes further to teach that the Church was baptized with the Spirit of Truth not to tell stories but to be the “Pillar and Foundation of the truth.”
The West became Post-Truth because the Church abandoned its universities. India is returning to her myths and idols because the evangelists preach “faith,” not truth. Faith enslaves. Truth liberates. That is why God wants us to believe what is true. Human beings can know the truth and bear witness to it because the God who knows has revealed truth.
TRUTHPEDIA is one attempt to initiate a renaissance of the Christian mind. It will mobilize the global body of Christ to create an online Encyclopedia and university. Truthpedia will begin competing with modernist and postmodern rivals by giving away the world’s best K-12 curriculum for free. It will encourage every church to promote and support Educational co-ops for school and university-level education. It will work with the International Forum of Professors and Scholars to create an Encyclopedia dedicated to Veritas and Virtue.
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Yours for a renaissance of the Christian Mind,
Vishal & Ruth Mangalwadi