Dwayne StovallKonto zweryfikowane

I. Scripture While divinely inspired, we deny the Bible is inerrant or infallible. It was written by men over centuries and thus reflects both God's truth and human sin & prejudice. We affirm that biblical scholarship and critical theory help us discern which messages are God's.

II. Imago Dei We affirm that God created every person in God's own image. Accordingly, we deny that vitriol directed towards people because of how God made them (i.e. sexual orientation or gender identity) is in any way faithful, biblical or godly.

III. Justice We affirm that justice is central to God's liberative mission. Moreover, we affirm that God enacts that justice through humans, helping us correct millennia-old sins that permeate both Church and culture. We deny that critical theory is irrelevant to this mission.

IV. God's Law We affirm that God's law, as summarized in the two great commandments, should guide Christian morality. However, we deny that wisdom accrued in the centuries since Bible's inception can't help us understand what it means to love one's neighbor as oneself.

V. Sin We affirm that all people, systems and institutions are affected by sin. We deny, however, that we are only responsible for our own, personal sins. God calls us to understand how we benefit or are harmed by structural oppression, and break sinful systems down.

VI. Gospel We affirm that the gospel is revealed through Jesus, and that liberation was central to Christ's mission. In his own life, however, Jesus demonstrated that works—living justly in the world—are every bit as foundational to the gospel as faith: They cannot be separated.

VII: Salvation We deny that salvation is only found through Christianity, that God's salvific grace is exclusive to any single faith or religion. Moreover, in God's eyes there is no difference in spiritual value or worth between those who are "in Christ" and those who aren't.