Friday, January 15, 2010

state your views. . .

I found an interesting list of questions on the blog Triangulations.

Here's the list:

My Denomination:
God’s Nature:
Perfect / All-knowing / All-powerful / Omni-present / All-Loving / Perfect / Eternal / Personal / Perfectly Just / Perfectly Merciful
Christology:
High / Low
Theology of Scripture: Inerrant / Errant
Infallible / Fallible
Soteriology 1: Exclusivist, Inclusivist, Pluralist, Universalist
Soteriology 2: Calvinism / Arminianism / Moninism
Atonement Theology:
Moral Influence Theory / Recapitulation Theory / Ransom Theory / Satisfaction Theory / Penal Substitutionary Theory / Governmental Theory / Participatory Theory / Mystical Theory
Literal Bodily Resurrection: No / Yes
Cosmology: Young Earth Creationist / Gap Creationist / Old Earth Creationist / Evolutionist
View on State of Israel: Christian Zionist / Pro-Israel / Israel-Neutral
Missionology:
Salvation First / Service First
Eschatology:
Premillenialist / Postmillenialist / Amillenialist / Preterist / No Millenialist
View on Science:
Science leery / Science friendly
Women can be priest or minister: No / Yes
Homosexuality can be valid life style:
No / Yes


And here are my answers (or lack thereof):

–My Denomination: undecided–-appreciate the pacifism of the Anabaptists, the intellectual depth of the Reformed tradition, the intellectual freedom of the emerging movement
–God’s Nature:
Perfect / All-knowing / All-powerful / Omni-present / All-Loving / Perfect / Eternal / Personal / Perfectly Just / Perfectly Merciful
–Christology:
High
–Theology of Scripture: Inspired (whatever that means)
–Soteriology 1: Inclusivist (i think)
–Soteriology 2: undecided
–Atonement Theology: uncertain but prob. either
Ransom Theory / Satisfaction Theory / Penal Substitutionary Theory
–Literal Bodily Resurrection: Yes
–Cosmology: either Progessive Creationism or Theistic Evolution
–View on State of Israel: Not christian zionist, but also not a passionate critic of Israel
–Missionology:
both ? If you could elaborate on this question that would great. . .
–Eschatology:
undecided
–View on Science:
Science friendly
–Women can be priest or minister: Yes
–Homosexuality can be valid life style:
undecided

I guess answering these questions has demonstrated my lack of definite answers at this point in my life. . . It will be interesting to see how my answers change as the years progress. . .

3 comments:

  1. I love it where you say it demonstrates your lack of definite answers and that you wonder how you will change. Indeed we do change and we do grow. Good luck on that journey !

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  2. Thanks, Sabio. After reading your bio, I see that you've done quite a bit of changing yourself. . . who knows where life will take us?

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  3. Indeed. Ideas come and go, but the heart can continue to grow.

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