12 Steps to APOSTASY via BLASPHEMY:12 points of infidel Bishop Spong

Bishop Spong--when are YOU going to let GOD be GOD?

1. "Theism, as a way of defining God, is dead. So most theological God-talk is today meaningless. A new way to speak of God must be found.
2. Since God can no longer be conceived in theistic terms, it becomes nonsensical to seek to understand Jesus as the incarnation of the theistic deity. So the Christology of the ages is bankrupt.
3. The Biblical story of the perfect and finished creation from which human beings fell into sin is pre-Darwinian mythology and post-Darwinian nonsense.
4. The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
5. The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.
6. The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.
7. Resurrection is an action of God. Jesus was raised into the meaning of God. It therefore cannot be a physical resuscitation occurring inside human history.
8. The story of the Ascension assumed a three-tiered universe and is therefore not capable of being translated into the concepts of a post-Copernican space age.
9. There is no external, objective, revealed standard written in scripture or on tablets of stone that will govern our ethical behavior for all time.
10. Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
11. The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.
12. All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination." wikipedia

Bishop Spong is a retired Episcopal Bishop. A perfect example of all that is betrayed within Christianity. Below is my response to his 12 points of infidelity.....

1- God is the same yesterday, today and forever-so if you are offended by the old fashioned "God-talk"--then be offended or unsatisfied-too bad....
2- Uhm...if Christ is not the incarnation of the theistic Deity---then why are you still a "Christian" for? Answer likely is this atheist is getting a pension so he stuck it out to his retirement and has a niche following that buys his silly books...this is his claim to fame in this life...it's all he knows and at age 81, what else is he going to now do different? Nothing....
3- I would argue that based on the science today--it is darwin that is nonsense...and no surprise that an atheist at heart like Bishop Spong looks to darwin for the answers...he does so by CHOICE & willingly....
4-  Spong....the very point of the virgin birth testifies to His divinity....
5- 1st, if you don't believe in the miracles-then why are you wasting time as a retired "bishop"? Obviously you strip every possible power of God from God in your small, human mind. & 2nd, as for using the word "Newtonian", uhm, Newton was a Christian who wrote more about Bible prophecies than about science!!!
6- There it is!!!! calling the sacrifice on the cross "barbarian" is over the top---you really are an atheist wrapped in the cloth of the clergy....It is as though Lucifer himself is writing when you pick up your pen...
7- So your a new-ager? Without a physical resurrection you would have no chance at salvation--and I think here, if Paul were writing, he would inject the word "fool" as applying to you at this point-seriously..BTW, is there any powers that YOU will allow God to have, bishop?
8- If by 3 tiered you mean the atmosphere, then up into space and finally heaven...how can you not agree with that? Where do you think this heaven is? Or do you think it is some esoteric dream state?
9- Well not surprised you dismiss the law of God---you know "bishop", it really sounds as though Lucifer himself is speaking through you....
10- So you claim we can't really pray to God as He tells us to? Why read your Bible?
11- Well what is one more heresy from your pen? Telling people that there is no punishment for sinning & rejecting God.....so people can really just do as they please...sounds like a universalist...
12- Sexual preference to be gay is NOT being in "God's Image"...But at this point your blasphemy is no longer a surprise.....And as for race-that is just different shades of the melatonin we were created with, part of God's diversity of His blooming rose of creation which fills the planet...and gender was created by Him, male & female, with specific gender roles..but that does not make one gender inferior to the other...

SUMMARY

The 12 points of John Spong could be labeled the 12 STEPS to APOSTASY via BLASPHEMY

 

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Galatians 3:1