The Clergy Project

Faith writes:It is a list of liberal clergy, not conservatives.

It is not correct to say they "represent" anyone but themselves.

I know you reserve the right to pass judgment on absolutely everything and deny conservative Christians that right, but I must demur.

Your list is something like 75% KNOWN liberal churches and many of the rest I just don't happen to know about, but the totally liberal to leftist National Council of Churches and World Council of Churches being on the list kinda sums it up.

If you aren't aware that there was a massive divide in the churches in the early 20th century between liberals and conservatives you don't know much about church history jar.

You know nothing about the whole conservative wing apparently, the conservative seminaries etc.

Faith writes:My own pastor reiterated this recently, when he said there is no other kind of Christian than a "Bible-believing" Christian, although we use that qualifier a lot in venues like EvC for the sake of discussion because so many claim the title.

Not by a genuine Christian.

People claim all kinds of things rightly and wrongly.

However, I am assured by iano and Faith (and many other professed Christians) that this is not the case.

I can't answer it any more clearly. If you accept evolution, then you are wasting your time persueing the God of the Bible. They cannot coexist.

Within the community of Christian believers there are areas of dispute and disagreement, including the proper way to interpret Holy Scripture. While virtually all Christians take the Bible seriously and hold it to be authoritative in matters of faith and practice, the overwhelming majority do not read the Bible literally, as they would a science textbook. Many of the beloved stories found in the Bible - the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the ark - convey timeless truths about God, human beings, and the proper relationship between Creator and creation expressed in the only form capable of transmitting these truths from generation to generation. Religious truth is of a different order from scientific truth. Its purpose is not to convey scientific information but to transform hearts.We the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the timeless truths of the Bible and the discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist. We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests. To reject this truth or to treat it as “one theory among others” is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children. We believe that among God’s good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. To argue that God’s loving plan of salvation for humanity precludes the full employment of the God-given faculty of reason is to attempt to limit God, an act of hubris. We urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution as a core component of human knowledge. We ask that science remain science and that religion remain religion, two very different, but complementary, forms of truth.