To be fair the Alpha course is hardly indepth theology. It also leans to evangelistic theology, which makes it quite specific.
Even so, it is a fair example of the sort theology that I have studied and have mostly rejected.
There are many critiques of the alpha course.
You don't say. I think you are assuming that I accept and follow it's conclusions. I think I could write my own critique of the Alpha Course, and nobody who teaches the course would like what I have to say about it.
I don't think it's a very good thing to base your entire theology on
That is why I don't, but prefer to believe the critics who say it is wrong. Trust me, I have done Alpha, but that does not mean I believe it and accept it uncritically. I have examined it and rejected most of it's conclusions.
I believe the following:-
That homosexuality itself is not morally wrong.
That the Bible's historical accounts often contradict each other and also the facts of archaeology and physical sciences like dendrochronology, palaeontology, and many others.
Adam and Eve? Myth. Noah's flood? Didn't happen. Moses, Joshua and the Conquest of Canaan? Out of harmony with what we know of the period.
The Devil is not real, but is a concept from pagan myth that worked it's way into Christianity. ' Lucifer, mentioned in Isaiah chapter 14, is really based upon Helel ben Shachar, a figure from Canaanite mythology.
Likewise, the Protestant and Catholic Hell is very different from both Sheol and Gehenna, as portrayed in the Bible.
The Bible is not God's revealed word to Humankind, but rather traces our human ancestors experiences and their thoughts on what these experiences mean.
The Bible we use today is not the Bible for the Early Church, and the Bible went through centuries of change before settling onto the form we know today, with books coming in and going out before settling on the present form.
I did not come to these conclusions solely as a result of doing the Alpha Course, nor from my studies in the Theocratic Ministry School. I came to these conclusions by reading Funk and Wagnell's Encyclopaedia, The Golden Bough , The Masks of God, and several other commentaries and critiques of the Bible that I found in my local library.
I have set out some hear , and I wait to see if Pastor Lenny can refute a single point i have raised.
Re: 'Crap' theology?
Even so, it is a fair example of the sort theology that I have studied and have mostly rejected.
There are many critiques of the alpha course.
You don't say. I think you are assuming that I accept and follow it's conclusions. I think I could write my own critique of the Alpha Course, and nobody who teaches the course would like what I have to say about it.
I don't think it's a very good thing to base your entire theology on
That is why I don't, but prefer to believe the critics who say it is wrong. Trust me, I have done Alpha, but that does not mean I believe it and accept it uncritically. I have examined it and rejected most of it's conclusions.
I believe the following:-
That homosexuality itself is not morally wrong.
That the Bible's historical accounts often contradict each other and also the facts of archaeology and physical sciences like dendrochronology, palaeontology, and many others.
Adam and Eve? Myth. Noah's flood? Didn't happen. Moses, Joshua and the Conquest of Canaan? Out of harmony with what we know of the period.
The Devil is not real, but is a concept from pagan myth that worked it's way into Christianity. ' Lucifer, mentioned in Isaiah chapter 14, is really based upon Helel ben Shachar, a figure from Canaanite mythology.
Likewise, the Protestant and Catholic Hell is very different from both Sheol and Gehenna, as portrayed in the Bible.
The Bible is not God's revealed word to Humankind, but rather traces our human ancestors experiences and their thoughts on what these experiences mean.
The Bible we use today is not the Bible for the Early Church, and the Bible went through centuries of change before settling onto the form we know today, with books coming in and going out before settling on the present form.
I did not come to these conclusions solely as a result of doing the Alpha Course, nor from my studies in the Theocratic Ministry School. I came to these conclusions by reading Funk and Wagnell's Encyclopaedia, The Golden Bough , The Masks of God, and several other commentaries and critiques of the Bible that I found in my local library.
I have set out some hear , and I wait to see if Pastor Lenny can refute a single point i have raised.