gordon brown wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, george murphy wrote:
>
> > 3) It is not up to me to decide this, but I would think that
> > anyone who says that
> > he/she does accept the Statement of Faith (as well as having the
> > other qualifications)
> > would be acceptable for membership. No one is going to say, "OK, but
> > we noticed that you
> > belong to Denomination X and this makes us wonder if your acceptance
> > is sincere."
>
> This is exactly what has happened on this list in connection with a Moonie
> who joined the ASA.
I should have been more precise. Given a person's background, we may
indeed wonder in what sense a person is accepting the Statement of Faith.
Furthermore, I see nothing wrong with frank discussion among members of
theological differences in light of the creeds. But I don't think that the
ASA as an organization should be investigating the theology of applicants for
membership if they accept the Statement of Faith unless there is obvious
evidence of dissimulation.
As I said earlier, the ASA is not a Church and its Statement of Faith
is not a condition for church fellowship. I think there are serious errors in
the theology of the Unification Church & that's true in varying degrees for
some other churches whose members are represented in ASA. There are strong
and weak points in having a relatively broad statement of the type we
presently have but I think the strengths outweigh the weaknesses.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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