Finding a way: Elizabeth Coleman on discovering Jewish Christianity
‘We can be followers of Jesus, even if the creeds do not speak to our condition.’
Some people become Quakers because they cannot accept the teachings of the mainstream church, such as Jesus being God, Jesus dying for our sins, or the trinity. As Jesus is now bundled up with these beliefs, they can end up rejecting Jesus himself, though many accept him as a great ethical teacher. If you could go back in time and show Jesus the creed that is recited in church, I think he would be bewildered (I don’t know what he would make of twenty-first century Quakerism!).
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