Subject:  自由派基督教信經 Liberal Christian Creed |
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Date Posted: 22:22:24 03/31/05 Thu
《使徒信經》及《彌吉亞信經》為傳統基督宗教群設下信仰定義。但自由派基督教內部存在異質性，很難為自由派基督教設下定義性的信經。而設立定義性信經的行動本身又為神學探索設下關卡，實非必要。話雖如此，自由派也有一定的共通特徵可供辨認。以下是可行的「自由派基督教信經」，大致上描述了自由派信仰的共通特徵。
Christianity Facts
1. Jesus was a man born of human parents and was not born of a virgin. As it happens, the Greek translators had made a mistake. When they were translating the Hebrew writings into the Greek Septuagint and similar translations, they converted the Hebrew word "almah" as the Greek equivalent of our English word for virgin. "Almah" appears 9 other times in the Hebrew Scriptures; in each case it means "young woman". When the scriptures referred to a virgin (and they do over 50 times) they always used the Hebrew word "betulah". So, Isaiah appears to have referred to a young woman becoming pregnant (a rather ordinary event).
2. Mark, Matthew, Luke or John never existed. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were not written by Jesus' disciples but by person or persons whose names are unknown decades after Jesus' death in 30 CE.
3. The Bible is not inerrant. Many passages in the Gospels and Epistles of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) contain religious propaganda, beliefs unique to the author and his/her faith group, words created by the authors and attributed to Jesus, stories of events that never happened, material picked up from surrounding Pagan cultures, etc.
4. The resurrection story concludes that the earliest followers of Jesus knew nothing about the resurrection. Paul believed that Jesus had a passive role in his resurrection. He was raised by God into heaven, housed in a spirit body. His physical body rotted. The story of the tomb, its stone, the angels, men and women at the tomb, of Jesus meeting, talking and eating with his followers, etc. is a myth, a legend created by various Christian movements many decades after Jesus' execution. That saga became captured in the four canonical gospels at different stages in its development. The early belief, that Jesus was raised in a spirit body, blends with the later myth that Jesus rose himself, in his original body. Echoes of both beliefs are seen in the gospels.
4. There was no literal Adam and Eve. The story of Adam and Eve is simply a biblical myth. The earth is over 4.5 billion years of age in a Universe which is over 13.5 billion years of age. Life evolved. Few liberal Christians believe that the events described in the first part of Genesis really happened as described. The text of Genesis was derived from earlier pagan writings of nearby societies. Although not literally true, the myths of Genesis still contain many thought-provoking passages.
5. There was no world-wide flood, no Noah and no ark. The story of Noah and the ark is simply a biblical myth. The Chaldean Flood Tablets from the city of Ur in what is now Southern Iraq, describe how the Babylonian God Ea destroyed all of the men, women, children, babies and infants by a world-wide flood. A comparison of the story on these tablets with the Bible indicates that the writer(s) of the story of Noah clearly copied the earlier Babylonian text. There is some indication that the inspiration for the flood stories was a massive series of floods in Ur and surrounding areas circa 2800 BCE. The flood stories are simply charming myths. Noah never exited nor did the ark.
6. There is no need to be "saved". God loves all people universally.
7. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. - Albert Einstein
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