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Here's a thread to discuss the LDS interest in Margaret Baker on the topic of Heavenly Mother.
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Here's a thread to discuss the interest in Margaret Baker on the topic of Heavenly Mother.
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Here's a starter question, Peter. Would Margret Barker's Theology allow her to post in the Christian section of CF or would she be unorthodox by our site standards? Is she Trinitarian?
BTW, they do allow heretics to teach in US Methodist Seminaries. I spent a semester at Candler School of Theology (Emory University) and my professor, Dr. Gene Tucker, taught a course on the Pentateuch where he taught that the books of Moses were really a combination of multiple sources (JEDP theory). Amidst his lectures a student asked, "Dr. Tucker, am I to teach this in my Methodist Church? They'd lynch me!" His reply was, "Tell them what they want to hear; but what I am teaching is the truth."
After class I slipped a 3X5 card into his grade book. On it I wrote: James 3:1 >> "Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment."
Several years later after taking the same course from Dr. Bruce Waltke at Dallas Seminary I wrote Dr. Tucker and told him he had not been intellectually honest with us in that he neglected citing any of the strong arguments in favor Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch.... He did not reply.
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I know Margaret Baker was invited to lecture at BYU. What makes her popular with Mormons? How is her Heavenly Mother concept parallel to Mormon Heavenly Mom?
I say both are heretical.
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Peter1000 said:I just ran across a woman by the name of Margaret Barker, who is a Methodist preacher and a OT, NT scholar, and has written many books and been awarded for her achievements. Read what told us on this youtube lecture:
This video is about her 400 page book on Heavenly Mother and her children
Here's a thread to discuss the interest in Margaret Baker on the topic of Heavenly Mother.
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Peter1000 said:For you to dismiss her scholarship because she disagrees with you is cute too. As she says, she teaches you how it agrees with the bible, but I'm sure you will not listen.
I thought maybe a non-Mormon source and a fully accredited Christian source would be interesting to everyone on this forum.
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Peter1000 said:I thought, since you are so interested in Heavenly Mother, I would present you with a good non-Mormon source and a fully accredited Christian source (Methodist) that should help you understand that some mainline Christians believe there is a Heavenly Mother also.
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Here's a starter question, Peter. Would Margret Barker's Theology allow her to post in the Christian section of CF or would she be unorthodox by our site standards? Is she Trinitarian?
BTW, they do allow heretics to teach in US Methodist Seminaries. I spent a semester at Candler School of Theology (Emory University) and my professor, Dr. Gene Tucker, taught a course on the Pentateuch where he taught that the books of Moses were really a combination of multiple sources (JEDP theory). Amidst his lectures a student asked, "Dr. Tucker, am I to teach this in my Methodist Church? They'd lynch me!" His reply was, "Tell them what they want to hear; but what I am teaching is the truth."
After class I slipped a 3X5 card into his grade book. On it I wrote: James 3:1 >> "Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment."
Several years later after taking the same course from Dr. Bruce Waltke at Dallas Seminary I wrote Dr. Tucker and told him he had not been intellectually honest with us in that he neglected citing any of the strong arguments in favor Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch.... He did not reply.
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I know Margaret Baker was invited to lecture at BYU. What makes her popular with Mormons? How is her Heavenly Mother concept parallel to Mormon Heavenly Mom?
I say both are heretical.
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