Posted on 09/29/2015 8:26:04 AM PDT by smokingfrog
Revd Scott McKenna, minister of Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church in Edinburgh, openly denies one of the most accepted teachings of mainstream Christianity and told his congregation that it was "ghastly theology" to believe that Jesus Christ died for sinners.
Following the comments, the footage was uploaded online and the current Free Church Moderator Revd David Robertson responded by writing a blog post on the subject, saying such preaching was profoundly anti-Christian.
Mr McKenna, who has the potential to be a Church of Scotland Moderator, then contacted Robertson and the men met to discuss theology.
A debate has been set for Wednesday at Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church to talk about the death of Jesus, as well as faith schools and other issues brought up in the Bible.
Revd Angus Morrison, present Church of Scotland Moderator, will chair the debate.
Revd David Robertson said: "After writing the article Scott got in touch with me and we had a coffee.
"I felt we got on well and as a result we agreed to have an open discussion in his church on this subject and others to do with the Christian gospel.
"At a personal level I confess that I liked Scott - I prefer an honest liberal to a dishonest evangelical! However this does not mean that I agree with him at all.
"To me this denial of the Gospel is not a form or variant of Christianity, it is not Christianity at all, because it strikes at the very heart of the Christian faith.
"Therefore it is a vital subject for us to be discussing."
Revd Scott McKenna, who denies that Christ died for sins, has written for the Church of Scotland's monthly magazine.
More recently he was part of the campaign to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland.
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This is all working towards Jesus being declared officially, a metaphor. Bank on it.
Pretty much tells you why he denies Jesus Christ. He sees him as competition.
This guy is nothing more than a pastor of Hell. Incredible!
Him and his ilk are not new.
Read Book of Jude.
I can hear Jesus knocking at the door now...
1 Cor 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
John Knox must be ashamed what his creation has become.
You know, we hear stuff like this from dum-dums like this guy, and ask “doesn’t he know what the Bible says????”
But really, how is this functionally different from Catholicism directly contradicting the plain teaching of the biblical text as well?
Peter 3:18 (KJV):
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit
One of the many that seem to be roaming the earth currently
Hey Rev how about listening to Jesus himself:
Matthew 20:28:
“just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Such an “out of date” concept!
The nature of God includes love and justice.The justice of God required that God find a way that the penalty due to us for our sin would be paid, for he could not accept us into fellowship with himself unless the penalty was paid.Paul explains that this was why God sent Christ to be a "propitiation" (Rom.3:25), which is a sacrifice that bears God's wrath so that God becomes "propitious" or favorably disposed toward us.God sent Christ to die and pay the penalty for our sins.This is basic atonement theory in theology books.
Now, he's a Christian apostate.
#dealsealed
Debate, discussion, the expression of different points of view, symptoms of the death of the West. Imagine this clown expressing this blather in the period 1200 to 1700 A.D.
Why go to church if they don't believe in and worship a real God?
This is pretty much the Rob Bell brand of theology.
To corrupt those that do obviously. Infiltrate and destroy. It’s worked spectacularly thusfar.
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