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...Adam and Eve, the parting of the Red Sea, the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, and the acts of the apostles. But if all of these can be explained away because they are not "rational," what about the central miracle of Christianity, God becoming a man in Christ? Is it rational to believe that Christ was divine? Kung seems to have doubts...
...charging that vast amounts of money and other assets had been misused. By any standard, the Worldwide Church is unusual. It is ruled by Herbert W. Armstrong, 88, self-styled "Chosen Apostle" of God, who is preparing the one true church for the imminent collapse of world order and Christ's return. Among other things, Armstrong denies the Trinity and insists that Christians should not celebrate Christmas or Easter (considered "pagan" holidays). He inspires fanatical loyalty among followers and fierce enmity among defectors, and deftly uses his radio-TV show, The World Tomorrow, and his monthly Plain Truth magazine...
...started at a routine meeting of delegates from Presbyterian congregations around Washington in 1979. On the agenda was the application of United Church of Christ Minister Mansfield M. Kaseman for Presbyterian credentials so he could serve as a clergyman in the Rockville (Md.) United Church, which belongs both to Kaseman's U.C.C. and the United Presbyterian Church...
During the meeting, the affable Kaseman was asked whether he believed Jesus Christ is God. "No," he responded, "God is God." Kaseman was accepted by a majority. But that answer stirred deep alarm in some delegates. In recent years conservative Presbyterians have had to swallow a fair degree of doctrinal flexibility, but they interpreted Kaseman's response as a denial of the deity of Christ. The conservatives filed a protest and eventually the Permanent Judicial Commission, the national supreme court of the 2.5 million-member United Presbyterian Church, bounced the case back to the local presbytery for further examination...
...traditional statement of Presbyterian faith had been the lengthy Westminster Confession of 1647. It includes the ancient definition of Jesus Christ as "the second Person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance and equal with the Father." At the second examination last March, Kaseman was asked four times about Christ's bodily Resurrection. He finally said, "I believe in the Resurrection without necessarily believing in the bodily Resurrection." Though he said he "affirms" the doctrine of the Trinity, as required by the Presbyterian church, he indicated he is uncomfortable with traditional creeds and shuns doctrinal...