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Rejoinder to Biblical Unitarians
| According to Biblical Unitarians (link on "U-Index" page): "The modern day Unitarian Universalist Church does not hold to the Bible as the Word of God, and attempts to embrace all belief systems as valid. It is ironic that, by having multiple sources for their beliefs, their philosophy basically contradicts their original name. " (Reader's comment: That's not true. UU's believe that all religious views are worthy of respect. That is, we believe that we should respect a person's right to have his belief, to begin with. And most of us believe that most other religions contain wisdom that is worthy of considering. Many of us believe that ultimate truth can not be absolutely ascertained, so my belief has a possibility of being in error, as does yours or his. In the end, a belief is just a view, which may or may not contain some degree of truth. Obviously, two contradicting statements can not both be valid.) It is the case that the modern church contradicts its original name, in that originally, the issue was the number of Gods (one.) They were considered anti-trinitarian, opposing the idea of three Gods, even if it was three-in-one. Today that is considered moot, and an individual can assign whatever importance to it s/he wishes. The writer seems to be talking about the Unification Church, or the "Moonies." In the observation of this writer, they do seem to suggest that all religions are equally true. Also, the modern UU church does not hold as a dogma that the Bible is or is not anything. That is different from saying, "The UU church holds that the Bible is not the word of God." Each UU determines for himself what s/he believes the Bible to be, and there is no church doctrine on the subject, as the UU church avoids creating doctrine or holding its members to any single concept. A dogma is a belief required as a condition for membership, and we have no such thing. "It seems that today's Unitarians have fallen prey to the “Postmodern” idea that there is no such thing as truth, and that whatever each person chooses to believe is truth for him. History and experience have proven that idea to be intellectually, practically, and emotionally bankrupt." Whether or not there is "no such thing as truth," there is no way to ultimately and absolutely know what the truth is. -- (Just this UU's opinion.) As to what the Bible is, it is universally agreed that it is a collection of a lot of books written by different writers. It is also universally agreed that the original copies are not in existence, and that all subsequent copies were made by hand, by human copyists, having their possibilities of errors, their theological agendas, and problems in translation from one language to another. It is also universally agreed that the choices of what books to include and not to include were made by men, who are only human, as they say. Different Bibles contain or exclude different books, varying by denomination, or varying through the centuries. Such errors and other changes have been demonstrated by example, many times over. The statement "Not a jot nor a tiddle shall be changed" just doesn't hold up to inspection. That the men choosing which books to include in the canon were divinely inspired in their judgment is a matter of faith (and that doesn't mean faith in the scriptures, which say no such thing, but faith in church doctrine.) As to how each book was originally written, and how each separate writer got his thoughts and knowledge is a matter of speculation and faith, and can not be factually determined, in the view of many UU's. It appears to most UU's that those who say that it can, do so from faith, not from scholarship. |
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