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The classical error of historical christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner', and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in christian theology.

-Robert H. Schuller

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The Classical Error Of Historical Christianity Is

Robert H. Schuller

The classical error of historical christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner', and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in christian theology.

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. error is neither mind nor one of mind's faculties. error is the contradiction of truth. error is a belief without understanding. error is unreal because untrue. it is that which stemma to be and is not. if error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. thus we should continue to lose the standard of truth.

That the religious right completely took over the word christian is a given. at one time, phrases such as christian charity and christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. to perform a "christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. now, christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- christian nation, christian morality, christian values, christian family.

Christians have always tended to transform the christian revelation into a christian religion. christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely, some christians try to show that it is a better religion than the others. people attempt to take possession of god. theology claims to explain everything, including the being of god. people tend to transform christianity into a religion because the christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of god's radical demand that we be holy.

Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. the law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. so naturally miss manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation. they are the natural enemies of error and error only. had not the roman government permitted free inquiry, christianity could never have been introduced. had not free inquiry been indulged at the era of the reformation, the corruption of christianity could not have been purged away.

The sinner is at the heart of christianity. no one is as competent as the sinner in matters of christianity. no one, except a saint.

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