‘Bad theology kills’: Senior cleric returns honour over Margaret Court decision


In its new guise as the Uniting church, the Methodists have undergone a rapid falling away from their traditional devotion to Bible teachings.  The guy quoted below reflects that

It's hugely perverse that he calls a devotion to Bible teachings "bad theology".  Surely the bad theology is anything leads you away from faith in God and his clear teachings.  Consult Romans 1:27; Jude 1:7; 1 Timothy 1:8-11; Mark 10:6-9; Matthew 19: 4-16; 1 Corinthians 6: 9-11; 1 Corinthians 7:2; Leviticus 18:22; Leviticus 20:13; Genesis 19:4-8 if you want to read good theology.  The Bible repeatedly makes clear that homosexuality  is a defiance of God.  Real Christians accept that

All sexual acts are voluntary.  Everybody has the choice to engage in them or not


A church leader says Margaret Court’s “bad theology” is his reason for joining the growing list of Order of Australia members who are returning their awards in protest against her elevation to the country’s highest civilian honour.

A number of recipients, including retired broadcaster Kerry O’Brien and acclaimed artist Peter Kingston, have either returned or refused awards and others say theirs have been tarnished.

In this week’s Australia Day awards, Court was elevated from an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) to a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for her sporting success.

As a tennis player, she won 24 grand slam women’s singles titles, but as a Pentecostal pastor she has preached against LGBTQ rights, opposed same-sex marriage and, in 2017, compared homosexuality with Hitler and “the devil”.

The Reverend Alistair Macrae, a former president of the Uniting Church in Australia who was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contributions to the church and the community, said on Wednesday that he would be handing back his award.

“As a minister and theologian, I am aware that bad theology kills people,” Mr Macrae wrote in an opinion piece for The Age.

“Bad theology underpinned the racist apartheid regime in South Africa. Bad theology supported Hitler’s racist ideology and the evil it produced. Bad theology underpinned or failed to recognise the racist assumptions behind the destructive program of colonisation not least in this land. Bad theology continues to alienate and oppress sexual minorities.”

Court has stated that her religious views are separate from her sporting career, comments which Mr Macrae argued were disingenuous for a public figure.

He pointed to high suicide rates in the LGBTQ community and stressed that Court’s views were not shared by all Christians.“If it harms people, from my perspective, it’s not from God,” he said.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/bad-theology-kills-senior-cleric-returns-honour-over-margaret-court-decision-20210127-p56x5k.html

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  1. A real Christian should indeed strive to know what God's will is and live accordingly. Christians who are curious can even attempt to find out why God's will is what it is, and what the effect is of that which is not God's will.

    The title of minister does not in itself grant one knowledge of all things under the sun. It might be humbling for a minster to stand before God, and become aware that while he was pointing the finger at those adjusted their will to that of God, he himself was propogating harm through bad theology; ignoring the bible and bowing to leftist peer-pressure, and sacrificing God's will so that he could feel good about catering to his preferences.

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