Progressive Christian forum

[spiritfilledjm]

As it is becoming a more mainstream belief, and we have boards for different denominations and schisms in some denominations, it may be time, and only fair, to include a Progressive Christianity board.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

As it is becoming a more mainstream belief, and we have boards for different denominations and schisms in some denominations, it may be time, and only fair, to include a Progressive Christianity board.

What kinds of things do progressive christians believe?

Word association error, inconclusive.

 

[Albion]

What you have in mind already exists. It's the "Whoever Will, May Come" subforum.

 

[spiritfilledjm]

Very liberal theologies that are all-inclusive. Such as, everyone goes to heaven no matter what, it doesn't matter what you believe or how you live your life because Jesus died on the cross for your sins, Paul is a false apostle etc.

(Disclaimer: I do not agree with any of this theology. I've just seen a boom over the last couple of years of folks that do believe this and while searching the internet for any news on why the forums were down for several hours yesterday I somehow stumbled upon a thread in a whole other website about this and their lack of really having anywhere to post so just figured I'd suggest it.)

 

[spiritfilledjm]

What you have in mind already exists. It's the "Whoever Will, May Come" subforum.

Ope, I stand corrected then. Disregard admins.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Ope, I stand corrected then. Disregard admins.

yes was going to suggest the Liberal forum, the word progressive has a variety of meanings sometimes not liberal.

 

[Basil the Great]

What you have in mind already exists. It's the "Whoever Will, May Come" subforum.

Yes, it would appear that such does essentially already exist.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Ah, a forum dedicated to people who think God and his saints had it all wrong until the 20th century when he suddenly decided to "fix it" and throw out the part about being the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Sounds wonderful.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Ah, a forum dedicated to people who think God and his saints had it all wrong until the 20th century when he suddenly decided to "fix it" and throw out the part about being the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Sounds wonderful.

We have a forum for progressive revelation also.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

We have a forum for progressive revelation also.

Of course we do.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Ah, a forum dedicated to people who think God and his saints had it all wrong until the 20th century when he suddenly decided to "fix it" and throw out the part about being the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Sounds wonderful.

Oh, it was a thing in the 19th century too.

 

[PloverWing]

Very liberal theologies that are all-inclusive. Such as, everyone goes to heaven no matter what, it doesn't matter what you believe or how you live your life because Jesus died on the cross for your sins, Paul is a false apostle etc.

(Disclaimer: I do not agree with any of this theology. I've just seen a boom over the last couple of years of folks that do believe this and while searching the internet for any news on why the forums were down for several hours yesterday I somehow stumbled upon a thread in a whole other website about this and their lack of really having anywhere to post so just figured I'd suggest it.)

Just to clarify: My first thought was that, as @Albion stated, the Whosoever Will, May Come forum is what you're looking for. But WWMC is something of a safe house for liberal Christians; it's expected that people posting there are sympathetic to the ideas of liberal theology.

If you're looking for a place to disagree with liberal theology and critique it, a forum like General Theology might be more appropriate.

 

[WonbyOneanddone]

As it is becoming a more mainstream belief, and we have boards for different denominations and schisms in some denominations, it may be time, and only fair, to include a Progressive Christianity board.

So a forum where Christ prostates himself before the democrat party?

Sounds like a new religion is needed, in fact, one has already be formed it seems

 

[PloverWing]

So a forum where Christ prostates himself before the democrat party?

Think Schleiermacher, maybe Rauschenbusch, maybe Barth, depending on exactly how you define "liberal". Note that only one of those three theologians was American.

 

[hedrick]

I believe many of the ideas you want to discuss would violate the rules for the Liberal forum. It follows the same rules of orthodoxy as other congregational forums. So universalism is in theory not allowed, as well as other things one might expect in a liberal forum. (There is a controversial theology forum here some of that can be do pne.) In practice it isn’t really useful for discussing contemporary theology. In practice the liberal forum is useful mostly for politically liberal ideas, but there are now better forums for that.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Ah, a forum dedicated to people who think God and his saints had it all wrong until the 20th century when he suddenly decided to "fix it" and throw out the part about being the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Sounds wonderful.

Nobody is going to drop what they believe because of some post.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Nobody is going to drop what they believe because of some post.

No doubt! If someone can't change their views looking at 2,000 years worth of history, tradition, and writings, nothing anyone says on a forum will do any good.

 

[Landon Caeli]

No doubt! If someone can't change their views looking at 2,000 years worth of history, tradition, and writings, nothing anyone says on a forum will do any good.

One can still be a Christian and believe the Bible is mostly incorrect... Theoretically.

...Same for the history and traditions.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

One can still be a Christian and believe the Bible is mostly incorrect... Theoretically.

...Same for the history and traditions.

Yes, some people do bear the cross of Pride.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Yes, some people do bear the cross of Pride.

They might view themselves as more evolved/enlightened.