on the internet: reevaluating Jesus
In the computer age, Killinger argued, religion moved from a belief in doctrines to a quest for self-fulfillment drawing on useful tidbits from an eclectic variety of faith traditions.
“Doctrine isn’t the driving force to many people today” except “to the fundamentalists who insist on it,” Killinger said. “But doctrine is a thing of the past now religiously.”
Pastors can follow this cultural shift by preaching about Jesus’ human side rather than insisting that He was God and that He always existed, Killinger said.
“There’s an altered view of Scripture and of the role of Christ,” he said of Christianity in today’s world. “Christ is still Savior to most of us, but maybe in a slightly different way than before.
Just got one thing to say: Wow. Relevance can go too far, methinks.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Wow indeed…. I think that the change in religion, as in away from doctrine and closer to something else isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, taking God out of Jesus is just wrong.
Whatever one might believe religiously, it must be based in a doctrine. Whether it’s loosely based or absolutely tightly followed, it must have some basis in doctrine. Because Doctrine comes directly from the Bible.
If it isn’t based on the Bible, then there is no point. At least, in a Christian’s life their personal beliefs based on anything else would be doing them no good.