tool: one who is used or manipulated by another – Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary
Featured as the lastest Trinity Review, Richard Bennett’s article “The Roman Catholic Agenda Embedded in the Manhattan Delcaration” is a much-needed exposé of this dangerous, ecumenical document. Bennett’s main point is that the Manhattan Declaration, while being promoted as a Christian defense of life, marriage and liberty of conscience, is in fact a hard-core Romanist document designed both to advance the socialist agenda of the Roman Catholic Church-State and to draw Evangelicals into the Roman Church itself. That this is the case should surprise no one, for Rome has a long history of two-faced political maneuvering. But what I find most distressing about this sordid affair is how leading figures in the Evangelical community are so easily duped into becoming tools of the Romanist agenda.
Check out the following video to see Baptist tools Mike Huckabee and Chuck Colson promoting the Manhattan Declaration.
I found a couple of remarks in this segment especially interesting. At about the 3:15 mark, Colson describes the language of the Manhattan Declaration as “covenantal.” So according to him, those Evangelicals who have signed the Manhattan Declaration have entered into a covenant with the Roman and Greek Orthodox churches, both of which deny the Gospel. This is in direct contradiction to Scripture, which enjoins Christians to separate from those who teach false doctrine. Then Huckabee toward the end – around seven minutes into the video – makes the comment that Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” was inspired, to which Colson adds that it was inspired by God. Who knew? I guess Colson agrees with his Romanist buddies on more that just social action. By promoting the notion of continuing revelation, he’s joined with Rome as a co-belligerent in the attack on the doctrine of Scripture.
Lux Lucet 
Catholics don’t deny the Gospel. A man made doctrine is sola scriptura (where is sola scriptura in the bible?)
The Gospel is the objective work that Christ did to save his people from their sins: his life. death, and resurrection from the dead. And this work saves completely all those who believe on his name. Rome denies that Christ’s work saves completely but instead requires each man to work to complete his salvation. And such a “Gospel” is no Gospel at all (Gal.1:6-9).
As to Sola Scriptura, this is no man made doctrine, but is a principle drawn from Scripture itself. Consider, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Tim.3:16-17). There is no good work for which Scripture does not equip God’s people. Deut.12:32 also speaks to this point, “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.” The immediate context of this comment is regarding worship, but the principle is applicable to all God’s commands. Were this not so, there would be no point in having a revelation in the first place.
I suppose more are fooled than even we assume. That’s unfortunate.
Writing in The Church Irrational, John Robbins pointed out the lack of discernment that is characteristic of the current age. The lack of sound thinking is evident throughout the Evangelical church, even among those who call themselves reformed.