1993 at a so-called Christian conference for re-imaging, the goddess of
wisdom, Sophia, was worshipped. (Attended by reps from the United Methodist,
Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Church of Canada, Episcopalian and American
Baptist,Quakers, United Church of Christ, as well as Catholic). Other examples
of this New-Ageism entering the Christian Churches at that meeting
include-
* Delores Williams of Union Theological
Seminary,said: "I don't' think we need a theory of atonement at all. I think
Jesus came for life and to show us something about life. I don't think weneed
folks hanging on crosses and blood dripping and weird stuff ... wejust need to
listen to the God within."
* Virginia Mollenkott, who participated in the
translation of the NewInternational Version, said, "Jesus is our elder brother,
the trailblazer and constant companion for us--ultimately is among many brothers
and sisters in an eternal, equally worthy sibling-hood. First bornonly in the
sense that he was the first to show us that it is possible to live in oneness
with the divine source while we are here on this planet.
* Korea's Chung Hyung Kyung told the crowd, "My bowel is
Buddhist bowel,my heart is Buddhist heart, my right brain is Confucian brain,
and my left brain is Christian brain." & "When we do pranic healing, we
believe that thislife-giving energy came from god and it is everywhere, it is in
the sun, inthe ocean, from the ground and it is from the trees ... If you feel
very tired and you don't have any energy to give, whatyou do is ... go to a big
tree and ask it to `give me some of your life energy"
* During the conference, a group of
roughly 100 "lesbian, bi-sexual, and transsexual
women" gathered on the platform and were given a standing ovation by many
in the crowd. They were "celebrating the miracle of being lesbian, out, and
Christian."
* The Nov. 3, 1993,
Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that"throughout the conference worship
experiences will celebrate Sophia, the biblical goddess of creation." Sue Seid-Martin of the University of St. Thomas
School of Divinity in St. Paul, Minn., claimed that this Sophiais "the
suppressed part of the biblical tradition, and clearly the female face of the
human psyche."
Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made
like to corruptible man,..(or in this case
a woman).
Romans 1:22,23
