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The church that opens the entire scripture to its people acknowledging both the ugly and the beautiful in the biblical landscape, has affirmed its people as being able to deal with truth in all its complexities. Equally important, that church has released the full power of the Bible...The greatest danger to the Bible comes from those who want to paint it in supernatural hues ...

The evidence is clear that theology arises out of political and intellectual turmoil. Concepts of God and the ethics of serving God emerge from the give and take of particular moments and particular places. If scriptures and creeds represent moments of divine disclosure uncontaminated by human input, how do we account for the contradictions in these documents, and why would God allow interpretations of them to be so

The evidence is clear that theology arises out of political and intellectual turmoil. Concepts of God and the ethics of serving God emerge from the give and take of particular moments and particular places. If scriptures and creeds represent moments of divine disclosure uncontaminated by human input, how do we account for the contradictions in these documents, and why would God allow interpretations of them to be so