Progressive Christian, JOHN C HOLBERT: Biblical Texts Used to Attack LGBTQIA Methodist Christians do Not Say What These so-called Bible Believers Claim They Say

HNewsWire- First they asked you to think outside the box of Truth; now they’re asking you to stop speaking Truth altogether.  The Progressive wing of the Church has been able to grow and thrive, thanks in part to the re-surging Emergent movement that has long been taking the doctrines of Christianity apart. JOHN C HOLBERT:The obvious reason for choosing this passage in the Lenten season is found at Gen.15:6. The NRSV translates as follows: “And he (Abram) believed the Lord; and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness.” However, this translation has been made primarily under the influence of the Septuagint, that 4th- 3rd century BCE Greek translation of the Hebrew, necessitated by the Greek takeover of the known world by Alexander of Macedon. The LXX (Septuagint) name is based on the myth that 70 translators went into 70 … Continue reading Progressive Christian, JOHN C HOLBERT: Biblical Texts Used to Attack LGBTQIA Methodist Christians do Not Say What These so-called Bible Believers Claim They Say