Dr. Albert Mohler On Blair's Faith Foundation

From One News Now Skepticism re: Tony Blair's interfaith group

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation was formed to fight extremism, and to organize religious groups against poverty, illness and also to educate people about all religious beliefs and views. Rick Warren, best selling author and pastor of Saddleback Church sits on the group's advisory council.

However, Dr. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky says Christians should be cautious about supporting Blair's group. "My concern about Tony Blair is that his understanding about religion, in general, and Christianity in particular, is what is called communitarian," he points out. "It really is about its social affect and its social utility."

Mohler says that he believes Christianity is good for society, "...[b]ut I believe far more important than that, it's the life changing message of how sinners can be made right with God."

Editor's note: Dave Hunt of the Berean Call shares this with One News Now:

Blair says the group will counter religious extremists, whom he defines as "people who want to exclude the other if someone is of a different faith." Hunt, founder of The Berean Call ministry, says Blair is undertaking an impossible task. "How are you going to unite Christians and Muslims, for example?" Hunt asks. "I mean, that is an anathema to Islam."

The ministry leader explains that Islam is as "anti-Christian" as a religion can be.
"The Quran says [that] Jesus is not God, [that] he's not the son of God, [that] he didn't die on the cross, even; [that] someone died in his place; [that] he was taken alive to heaven – just to begin with the contradictions between Christianity and Islam," he says.

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