Emergent Creed????

[L.J.]

Found this on another forum. Not sure it's true but does seem to be the case...

"Finally... The Emergent Church Creed (from LetterOfMarque.us):

I believe, but not with absolute certainty,

in a majestic mysterious divine being who cannot be comprehended,

the initiator of Darwinian Evolution.

And in Jesus, whom we agree to follow with a humble hermeneutic,

who was conceived by the Mother Spirit (aka Sarayu from The Shack)

born of Mary who probably wasn’t a virgin (it really wouldn't matter if she was or wasn’t)

who was crucified under Pontius Pilate

in order to expose the evils of the Roman Empire and motivate us to defect

from all Imperial framing stories.

On the third day He/She rose in the hearts of His/Her followers (getting hung up in Modernist arguments for or against Jesus' bodily resurrection entirely misses the point and the beauty of the resurrection narratives)

He/She ascended into heaven and

He/She is dreaming and hoping that we’ll follow His/Her examples

of feeding the poor, embracing the “other” and non-violent passive resistance

and thereby dismantle the theo-capitalist suicide machine and

create an economically sustainable and socially just Kingdom of God on Earth (aka Global Marxist Socialism)

so that He/She can return, glorify us and give us all a big group hug.

I believe the mysterious divine being embraces all of us in community

through questions and conversations. (Answers are not needed and only impede the journey.)

Homosexuality is a gift to be embraced instead of a sin to be repented of,

and that there are also followers of god in the way of Allah, Buddha, and Vishnu.

I believe that Love Wins and

that the divine being will ultimately help us all embrace the divine spark (Imago dei) within all of us so that we can become one with the great mysterious majestic spirit

and experience self-actualization, the next evolutionary leap and the life of the ages.

Peace out.

Namaste"

[~candice~]

Pass me a bucket! I'm gunna hurl!

[L.J.]

I agree Candice.

It seems in the effort to be "inclusive" they practice exclusiveness to the Truth.

[OneLight]

Yup, that about sums it up nicely from the studies I had been doing about the Emergent Church. It has not changed, just become more organized. They are trying to merge all the religions in the world into one. For years now, I had thought that this would be the religion that would threaten the Christin faith more then any other. In many ways, i still do. They will not become the militaristic religion, as in the radical Islamic religion, but more in an "all loving" way.

[L.J.]

Yup, that about sums it up nicely from the studies I had been doing about the Emergent Church. It has not changed, just become more organized. They are trying to merge all the religions in the world into one. For years now, I had thought that this would be the religion that would threaten the Christin faith more then any other. In many ways, i still do. They will not become the militaristic religion, as in the radical Islamic religion, but more in an "all loving" way.

Yet the only mention of love in the above creed is in reference to a book.

[OneLight]

Yup, that about sums it up nicely from the studies I had been doing about the Emergent Church. It has not changed, just become more organized. They are trying to merge all the religions in the world into one. For years now, I had thought that this would be the religion that would threaten the Christin faith more then any other. In many ways, i still do. They will not become the militaristic religion, as in the radical Islamic religion, but more in an "all loving" way.

Yet the only mention of love in the above creed is in reference to a book.

Not really ... we read

"I believe that Love Wins and that the divine being will ultimately help us all embrace the divine spark (Imago dei) within all of us so that we can become one with the great mysterious majestic spirit and experience self-actualization, the next evolutionary leap and the life of the ages."

They have been on this site and many others and they approach people with "God is love and is in everyone, sinner or not". Notice the acceptance of everything that is sin, but tears apart all that goes against sin? They also don't like the "theo-capitalist suicide machine".

[L.J.]

Yup, that about sums it up nicely from the studies I had been doing about the Emergent Church. It has not changed, just become more organized. They are trying to merge all the religions in the world into one. For years now, I had thought that this would be the religion that would threaten the Christin faith more then any other. In many ways, i still do. They will not become the militaristic religion, as in the radical Islamic religion, but more in an "all loving" way.

Yet the only mention of love in the above creed is in reference to a book.

Not really ... we read

"I believe that Love Wins and that the divine being will ultimately help us all embrace the divine spark (Imago dei) within all of us so that we can become one with the great mysterious majestic spirit and experience self-actualization, the next evolutionary leap and the life of the ages."

They have been on this site and many others and they approach people with "God is love and is in everyone, sinner or not". Notice the acceptance of everything that is sin, but tears apart all that goes against sin? They also don't like the "theo-capitalist suicide machine".

That's what I mean. Love Wins is a book by Rob Bell. Hence the capital letters. In their creed, that is the only reference to love. They love everybody and everything except people who take the Bible as the Word of God. While sometimes they do bring up some good points, it's usually by chance. About the same chance as a blind squirrel has to finding an acorn.

To be honest, at first I was fascinated by their teachings. But the more I dug into them the more I realized that their "new conversation" was nothing more of an attack on orthodoxy than trying to find the truth.

They practice the religion of Re-.

Re-imagining...

Re-inventing.....

Re-thinking....

Re-visiting.....

How about re-reading. Getting back to the Bible and practicing what it says. Not trying to evaluate it against what we experience in a fallen world.

[OneLight]

They will re-read THEIR bible, as soon as they remove everything that goes against any other religion or belief. That would also include sin. There won't be much left to read!

They came up on my radar as a very small blimp years ago when all the "spiritual" groups started popping up. They sounded interesting, so I started checking them out myself. It was not long before the truth of what they were all about came into light.

[Matthitjah]

The problem for them is that they define Love. However, God is Love and comes from without the human experience. man is Loved but mankind is not Love. The Love we practice is a direct reflection of the imprint of God on our Created bodies. We cannot define it and in practice it is as marred by sin as the rest of the world unless we follow Gods Law concerning it.

[ayin jade]

I found this online. It is written by someone who does not like the emergent church, who has studied their beliefs, and written this up as a summation of the emergent church beliefs. It is not officially their stated creed.