 Human Definitions of God Need Revision Quote: The choice between the theism of the church and the atheism of those who reject the God of the church is to me a sterile and lifeless choice. Such a meeting between believers and atheists might lead us to examine what Paul Tillich called “the God beyond the gods of men and women.” If believers cannot have that conversation because it compromises their God definition, then that is a tip-off that the God they serve is in fact an idol and atheism is always a proper response to idolatry.
| That excerpt by John Shelby Spong ON FAITH is an article I happened across in the online version of the Washington Post, and felt it raised some points worthy of a dialog here among us Truth Defenders. OD |