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Originally Posted by Chris T
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The west is extremely liberalised, the Islamic world generally far less so. The authority of the Bible has been challenged in our universities for over a century now and that ongoing challenge to its authority allows the development of liberal theology, because you can discount or explain away the passages in the Bible that are not convenient to your point of view.
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By challenging the authority of the Bible are you not in danger then of challenging God's authority. The point I am trying to make is that if God is supposedly all knowing, then surely what he prescribed in the days of Jesus/Muhammed (depending on what religion you wnat to follow) would be applicable in 2007 as they were in the times of those prophets.
Because society has become liberal does this mean that the religion should change to allow for the facilitation of things which were previously forbidden. For example homosexuality is now seen as being socially acceptable, whereas a while back both society and religion were in agreement that it was wrong (or perceived to be wrong in society).
By changing religion to make it acceptable or developing it based on liberal theology, are we then not implying that God is not the the all knowing entity that we think he is, or that his original commandments only applied at the time they were made?