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Date Posted: 13:22:37 02/14/05 Mon
In reply to:
蒲生
's message, "Re: 基要主義固然要防範，但自由派更加危險" on 11:06:49 02/14/05 Mon
同意.這幾句應可點出你心內的感受和想法:
One Creed or another is said at many Christian worship services, and this unfortunately causes enormous problems for lots of people.
The Creed...appears to be full of claims that most people, including many churchgoers, couldn't even begin to accept as true. Lots of those who attend church keep quiet during the time when it's said, or have a pause when it gets to a bit they find particularly unhelpful (or even offensive), or say it but have a bad conscience about being hypocritical.
Any Creed is as much a product of its time as a piece of old pottery. It's important to remember that when we say it, we're not pretending that we see things in the same way as the people who wrote it. That would be impossible, and indeed, undesirable. The world has moved on a long way in the last 1700 years, and our understanding of almost everything has changed out of all recognition.
The understanding of the faith preserved (fossilised?) in the Creed is historically important but can never be the last word. In religion, nothing can ever be the last word. To quote T S Eliot, "We must be still and still moving, into another intensity". The danger of Creeds is that they tempt people into thinking that the story is over and that all we're required (indeed allowed) to do is to keep replaying it, over and over again. In fact, the story is new for each generation, who have the task of continuing and representing the faith in terms that resonate with their own time.
Anyone who demands that 21st century Christians take literally the words of the Creeds is consigning Christianity to the dustbin of history. ...The Creeds are pointers to the faith of the past. It's up to us to be pointers to the faith of the future.
from
Why Bother to Say the Creed?
By Tony Windross
Vicar of St Peter's Church, Sheringham, England
tcpc.org/resources/articles/why_bother_creed.htm
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