According to one Baptist source: "Religious liberals do not believe in the literal reality and actual personality of Satan...The devil or Satan is not at all a real person, but only an impersonal evil force present and operating in the world." 4 The same source estimates that 75% of American clergy agree with the liberal belief.
Many liberal faith groups view Jesus, his disciples and the general public during the time of Christ's ministry as having deriving their beliefs about demons from their pre-scientific culture. Many suspect that people's faith in Jesus' healing powers and personal charisma were so great than many sick persons were cured. We see the same phenomenon today in Christian healing crusades. Some believe that the gospel accounts of healings are not of real events, but were fictional accounts, added to increase Jesus' credibility among Christians and potential converts to Christianity.
Most would regard the concepts of Satan, demons, spiritual warfare, demon possession etc. as being totally divorced from reality, a left-over belief from ancient times that cannot be supported with today's knowledge. The extreme liberal position might be summed up by a quotation from the writings of G. Messand้:
"We live under the sign of a nonexistent deity cobbled together twenty-six centuries ago by power-hungry Iranian priests. We live under the sign of Satan. Is this our destiny - are we to let an imaginary monster devour us forever?" 5
According to one Baptist source: "Religious liberals do not believe in the literal reality and actual personality of Satan...The devil or Satan is not at all a real person, but only an impersonal evil force present and operating in the world." 4 The same source estimates that 75% of American clergy agree with the liberal belief.
Many liberal faith groups view Jesus, his disciples and the general public during the time of Christ's ministry as having deriving their beliefs about demons from their pre-scientific culture. Many suspect that people's faith in Jesus' healing powers and personal charisma were so great than many sick persons were cured. We see the same phenomenon today in Christian healing crusades. Some believe that the gospel accounts of healings are not of real events, but were fictional accounts, added to increase Jesus' credibility among Christians and potential converts to Christianity.
Most would regard the concepts of Satan, demons, spiritual warfare, demon possession etc. as being totally divorced from reality, a left-over belief from ancient times that cannot be supported with today's knowledge. The extreme liberal position might be summed up by a quotation from the writings of G. Messand้:
"We live under the sign of a nonexistent deity cobbled together twenty-six centuries ago by power-hungry Iranian priests. We live under the sign of Satan. Is this our destiny - are we to let an imaginary monster devour us forever?" 5
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