Atheists claim they can do everything without God; they don’t believe in God, but believe in humane treatment. The Modernists say Jesus is not the Son of God; no one can be virgin-born; no one is being resurrected today to show that anyone can be bodily raised. In most minds, anyone who claims to be a miracle-worker could be just a magician. Legalists say you can never know if you are lost (go to hell) or saved (go to heaven); it is trusting in how good you are and in how many commandments you have kept to make you acceptable to God. Liberalism denounces the Bible as the Word of God; they reject Genesis and the account of Moses, in spite of the fact that Jesus, Paul, and Peter made references to it. They use highly sophisticated terminology and a fast tongue to make even believers feel totally incapable of arriving at truth on their own: liberalism tells you what to think.
Besides these critical viewpoints, there are the beliefs born because of denominationalism and theology. Denominationalism has been defined as saying you can’t know which church is the real church; therefore, to think one church is the only church is just not Christian. Theologian belief places a barrier between a people and their faith. They believe in Christ and appreciate His ethical teachings, but do not believe that they are set in an historical framework because to them the miracles are not factual.
The birth of the evolution theology influenced moralistic and socialistic views already in circulation. It gave power to a society already crumbling under moral changes. If one evolved, the common analogy is that one is then not accountable to anyone but him or herself for any action he or she has done or will do. This view is the forerunner to all other concepts: a personal and individual belief system that excludes either Jesus or God, or both.