Christian who is agnostic

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Jordan Peterson describes his difficulties with Christianity. Denial of religious freedom is a great evil, says Bishop of Truro. Dr Michael Nazir-Ali received into the Ordinariate. We know there is no "one right answer" when it comes to belief, and we don't let that stop us from taking action for a better world. We build a community that welcomes us in our wholeness, cherishes our doubts, and invites our ongoing search for truth. Since the early 20th century, Humanism has been an influential part of our continually evolving religious tradition.

Many Unitarian Universalists who are atheist or agnostic also identify as Humanist. Just a few additional contributing members to an individual church could make the difference between its closing or staying open. This is doubly true of younger generations, who grew up in a different world and represent the future of church leadership.

For hundreds of years, the Christian church has been characterized by rigidity, orthodoxy and insistence on blind faith. Even today, thousands of practicing Christians suffer silently during worship services, afraid to ask the tough questions that could lead them down a slippery slope to damnation.

Some stay; many do not. As figures like Peterson are demonstrating, there is an interfaith demand for Biblical interpretation that goes beyond traditional theological approaches. Thousands of people want to engage with Christianity, yet lack a home in the church.

There are also untold numbers of ex-Christians who are ready to be welcomed back into a church capable of contending with their unorthodox beliefs. The western world is ready for a fresh take on Christianity—but whether church leaders are ready to adapt is for them to decide. Zachary Strong is a marketer, leadership development professional, and amateur Christian theologian from Hamilton, Ontario.

A an undogmatic, unsuperstitious Christianity should still retain a sense of worlds, realms, or levels of being beyond mundane everyday workaday reality or mere flat scientific fact though without denying the value of ordinary natural human life or the validity of scientific fact, and without committing itself to crudely literalistic pictures of Heavens, Hells, Purgatories, Pyre Lands, Bardo Thodols, Elysiums, or Summerlands. The conflict between these two worldviews has, in large part, driven the culture wars».

Nothing more than that. Very interesting! I agree the western world is ready for something along these lines.

He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

It apparently never occurred to C. Without the handicap of that political association, Jordan Peterson might have easily become the Joseph Campbell of our own time, appealing to readers and viewers of diverse political viewpoints! For those of us who are not attracted to the monotheistic God, there are plenty of experiments in more or less agnostic or reformulated Buddhism going on. But my impression is that we are increasingly in a time of personalized spirituality.

There is no longer much of a need to choose one religion or tradition to the exclusion of others, so you might be inspired by different aspects taken from various places. The one requirement for this kind of exploration is a bit of intellectual humility, i. These surveys are old, and the numbers probably increased since then. Maybe take your own advise? Make use of that famed Christian humility?

I would like to know what someone more knowledgeable in theology has to say. Too bad you give nothing but false claims and ad-hominem attacks. Great article Zachary. A Christianity divorced from its superstitions and dogma might be a powerful thing. Also, the church is decidedly moving in a non-Western, non-white direction. Seriously, the whole discussion of LGBTQ issues is viewed primarily as a form of colonialism by Africans and they are having none of it.

There is no hiding the influence of man, with all its flaws, in the history of religions, the Bible and other similar books, rituals I am not an agnostic looking for someone to prove to me that God exists.

I am happy where I am. I think that is where we all must be, happy where we are. I grew up a Christian and to this day I have not, nor have any desire to, read the Bible. I am currently attending a Christian college with very traditional views that I cannot bring myself to agree with. I believe that there is enough scientific evidence to explain that the Bible's explanation for how things happened was not, at least entirely, accurate.

I believe that God made the world and that Jesus did save humanity, I just can't bring myself to believe that God would condemn anyone to eternal punishment for something so minor as not believing the "right" things. When I found the idea of an Agnostic Christian, I was relieved to find that I was not the only one who felt this way about the Christian fait, and that I did not have to give up my faith simply because I don't completely believe what some book says.

Thanks for sharing this informative post! Keep sharing! Pages Home What is a Christian Agnostic? More about me. What is a Christian Agnostic? Christian Agnostic is a term that I first saw displayed in the title of Leslie D. Weatherhead's great book, The Christian Agnostic , and it immediately resonated with me. But what exactly is meant by the denotation?

Well, first, I do not use the term agnostic here as is commonly used: a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown or unknowable. While I do assert that the existence of God cannot be known with certainty, I do not use agnostic, in this context, with such a connotation. Rather, I use the term just as Weatherhead used it: [A] person who is immensely attracted by Christ and who seeks to show his spirit, to meet the challenges, hardships and sorrows of life in the light of that spirit, but who, though he is sure of many Christian truths, feels that he cannot honestly and conscientiously 'sign on the dotted line' that he believes certain theological ideas about which some branches of the church dogmatize His intellectual integrity makes him say about many things, 'It may be so.

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