The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

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Some people may be surprised at this, but I am not! To me, Mr. Phipps
is not a “fluke,” he is the product of the “system,” that system of
Theology that, for the last 30 years, had been taught in seminaries all
over the world.
Here are some quotations from the world’s leading “Theologians”
who teach in world-class seminaries, whose purpose is to graduate
“ministers” of the word of God:
As modern people, we have to abandon Theological realism ..., the idea
that God actually exists as the Creator of the Universe, and that Christ
was actually raised from the dead. 1
Belief in God is ... fiction, a myth! 2
We must now learn to view Christianity, like Buddhism or any other
religion, as a historical human construction. All of our beliefs originate
in the human imagination. 3
A serious mistake was made when the Church began to fix its dogma in
creeds. The Protestant Reformation was a help, but fell far short of its
proper goal, when it failed to liberate the Church completely from
inherited dogma. 4
The subject that has received the most attacks by these “Theologians”
is the Divinity of Christ, His virginal birth and His Resurrection. The
current opinion on all three aspects is in the negative. John Hicks of
Birmingham U.K. writes:
Theology must learn to center itself around God, rather than on Christ,
and learn to regard the other faiths as honest responses to the One God
of us all. Traditional Christianity tends to divide Christians from
1 Don Cuppit, Dean, Emmanuel College, Cambridge U.K.
2 Lonnie Kliever, professor, Southern Methodist University, Texas
3 Gordon Kaufman, Professor of Theology, Harvard School of
Divinity
4 Edward Farley, Vanderbilt Divinity School