So you are a Christian... what's your theological alignment

[amadeus]

You scored as Classical Liberal.

You are a classical liberal. You are sceptical about much of the historicity of the Bible, and the most important thing Jesus has done is to set us a good moral example that we are to follow. Doctrines like the trinity and the incarnation are speculative and not really important, and in the face of science and philosophy the surest way we can be certain about God is by our inner awareness of him. Discipleship is expressed by good moral behaviour, but inward religious feeling is most important.

Classical Liberal - 79%
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan - 64%
Emergent/Postmodern - 61%
Modern Liberal -54%
Neo orthodox - 54%
Reformed Evangelical - 29%
Charismatic/Pentecostal - 25%
Roman Catholic - 14%
Fundamentalist - 11%

Bam. The bolded text sums up a lot of my views on theology.

 

[amadeus]

I also got this popup. Seems pretty inappropriate considering the subject matter of the quiz.

 

[Babbler]

That is for all the Fred Phelps of the world.

 

[I am the Future]

You are a classical liberal. You are sceptical about much of the historicity of the Bible, and the most important thing Jesus has done is to set us a good moral example that we are to follow. Doctrines like the trinity and the incarnation are speculative and not really important, and in the face of science and philosophy the surest way we can be certain about God is by our inner awareness of him. Discipleship is expressed by good moral behaviour, but inward religious feeling is most important.
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I can for the most part agree with this. I see God as more of a Thing inside of us not something that is physical. He is their to help us on the right path. And I believe that all people that accept the existence of a God, that want to go to heaven CAN.

 

[CivFan91]

You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan.

You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists.

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 75%

Neo orthodox 71%

Roman Catholic 64%

Classical Liberal 64%

Emergent/Postmodern 57%

Fundamentalist 46%

Reformed Evangelical 43%

Modern Liberal 43%

Charismatic/Pentecostal 36%

That last sentence, well... I probably would agree with them, but I have not read enough of them to be influenced by them. Ah, at long last I can give my beliefs a name!

Hmm... do I feel depraved? No. do I agree with the rest of it... yep. Am I nuts for doing so? Nope.

 

[JoeM]

I think the "apple" is the symbol for humans developing consciousness .

I've often wondered if this is the case.

3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Now though this is was from the Serpent, it does indicate that part of our doom is knowing good and evil - so would it not be logical to conclude that self-loathing is also part of the problem? To return to a state where good and evil were not being considered would surely preclude this kind of thought.

 

[classical_hero]

The only reason we ever consider apple being the fruit is the fact that in Latin, Apple and Evil are very similar, the Bible does not say which fruit is was.

I must agree with some here and say that some of the questions were badly worded. If only I remembered who Spong was before I took the test. :d'oh:

You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan.



You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists.

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan - 86%
Neo orthodox - 82%
Fundamentalist - 75%
Reformed Evangelical - 71%
Classical Liberal - 54%
Emergent/Postmodern - 46%
Charismatic/Pentecostal - 39%
Modern Liberal - 21%
Roman Catholic - 14%

I wonder how Rhymes got 100% Fundamental

It seems that there are quite a few people who are similar to me in my religious beliefs.

 

[odintheking]

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern.

You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this.

Emergent/Postmodern
75%

Roman Catholic
64%

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
61%

Neo orthodox
54%

Charismatic/Pentecostal
54%

Classical Liberal
54%

Modern Liberal
50%

Reformed Evangelical
43%

Fundamentalist
18%

 

[Stile]

You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan.

You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists.

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 71%
Fundamentalist 64%
Charismatic/Pentecostal 61%
Neo orthodox 57%
Reformed Evangelical 57%
Emergent/Postmodern 54%
Classical Liberal 54%
Roman Catholic 43%
Modern Liberal 39%

Not too bad. My first church was Methodist. I now attend a non-denominational church (but my pastor's father is pastor of the 1st Baptist Church of Atlanta). I view myself as more fundamentalist than anything else. I think my old Methodist church was too boring, too traditional, and well... very methodical. I don't believe the totally depraved thing, maybe that's why I don't have a higher percentage for the top two.

 

[GenMarshall]

You are Roman Catholic. Church tradition and ecclesial authority are hugely important, and the most important part of worship for you is mass. As the Mother of God, Mary is important in your theology, and as the communion of saints includes the living and the dead, you can also ask the saints to intercede for you.

Roman Catholic 93%
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 86%
Neo orthodox 86%
Charismatic/Pentecostal 64%
Classical Liberal 57%
Emergent/Postmodern 54%
Modern Liberal 50%
Reformed Evangelical 46%
Fundamentalist 46%

I actualy reverted back to Catholism spiritualy not to long ago, I used to be an agnostic before I found God and Jesus after I left the church of no fault of my own at the age of 6 (I never had first Communion nor Confurmation) when my parents left the church. Basicly I was rased with no religion at all for the rest of my childhood and teen years. I was bapized as a baby in the Catholic church.

 

[Gelion]

As far as I am from all this religion thing here's what I scored:

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern.

You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this.

Emergent/Postmodern 75%
Classical Liberal 71%
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 68%
Neo orthodox 64%
Modern Liberal 64%
Roman Catholic 57%
Reformed Evangelical 32%
Charismatic/Pentecostal 29%
Fundamentalist 21%

 

[onejayhawk]

I tend to be a bit equivocal on several issues, and it shows here,

You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists.

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 71%
Reformed Evangelical 68%
Emergent/Postmodern 64%
Charismatic/Pentecostal 61%
Classical Liberal 54%
Neo orthodox 54%
Roman Catholic 46%
Fundamentalist 43%
Modern Liberal 29%

I agree with the evangelical part, but I have little contact with Methodist, Wesley's doctrine and almost none at all with the Charismatics, which rate almost as high.

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[Reno]

Looking at the results of other people, i think i'm the only one (of those who posted results) to have 0 % Fundmentalist.

Myself i'm an Agnostic, and i'm still a member of the Lutheran Church of Finland.

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern.

You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this.

Emergent/Postmodern 96%

Classical Liberal 75%

Modern Liberal 64%

Roman Catholic 61%

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 54%

Neo orthodox 50%

Reformed Evangelical 43%

Charismatic/Pentecostal 25%

Fundamentalist 0%

 

[Hundegesicht]

Arrrrrgh! When I enter my score, it comes up as a bunch of unintelligable gibberish.

 

[Mark Young]

You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan.



You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists.

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan - 96%
Charismatic/Pentecostal - 75%
Fundamentalist - 75%
Classical Liberal - 54%
Reformed Evangelical - 54%
Emergent/Postmodern - 39%
Neo orthodox - 39%
Modern Liberal - 18%
Roman Catholic - 11%

I would say that is probably about 80% accurate of how I see myself. Though I dont see myself as depraved.

I thought that some of the wording of the questions could of been better.

Had I done this manually I would of thought that I would of been more like this......

Charismatic/Pentecostal - 100% (Only on the Pentecostal. I think that the charismatic movement is more a description of how some people choose to bring the gospel across rather than a scriptural principle and therefore I dont have much time for it - and to me I dont see the need to be 'charismatic').

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan - 80% (I believe that it is important to share the gospel but in wisdom and consideration for the hearer - if they are wanting to hear)

Fundamentalist - 50% (Fundamentalist/fundamenalism carries a connotation of being a fanatic with no regard to modern life. I see myself as being fundamental in the sense of 'lets get rid of all this man made doctrine and find out what God wants and do it'. The gospel is simple but we can make it so complex that even God doesn't know what we're on about half the time ).

Classical Liberal - 54% (For me liberalism deals with freedom from sin and the effects of sin. I'm not sure if the poll meant it like this but that's what I define it as)

Reformed Evangelical - 54% (Once again I'm unsure of their definition of this term but the one of the main points of being Christian is giving, which can be a form of evangelising)

Emergent/Postmodern - 0% (This is a concept that I'm not familiar with so I wouldn't of given this a rating at all).

Neo orthodox - 0% (This is a concept that I'm not familiar with so I wouldn't of given this a rating at all).

Modern Liberal - 18% (Probably about right. Though I maybe wrong, but I see modern liberalism as a compromise on what scripture says, which for me is the authoritive word.

Roman Catholic - 0% (This is a concept that I'm not familiar with so I wouldn't of given this a rating at all).

This was a good little exercise which, not something I tottaly agree with the results, it does make you stop and think about what you really believe as you do it.

 

[JohnRM]

You are Roman Catholic. Church tradition and ecclesial authority are hugely important, and the most important part of worship for you is mass. As the Mother of God, Mary is important in your theology, and as the communion of saints includes the living and the dead, you can also ask the saints to intercede for you.

Roman Catholic

100%
Emergent/Postmodern

86%
Neo orthodox

79%
Classical Liberal

79%
Charismatic/Pentecostal

64%
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan

50%
Modern Liberal

50%
Reformed Evangelical

36%
Fundamentalist

21%

Big shocker there. Afterall, I am Roman Catholic.

 

[Elrohir]

Fundamentalist
75%

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
71%

Charismatic/Pentecostal
68%

Reformed Evangelical
68%

Neo orthodox
64%

Classical Liberal
57%

Emergent/Postmodern
46%

Roman Catholic
39%

Modern Liberal
25%

Pretty unsuprising.

 

[The Yankee]

You scored as Classical Liberal.

You are a classical liberal. You are sceptical about much of the historicity of the Bible, and the most important thing Jesus has done is to set us a good moral example that we are to follow. Doctrines like the trinity and the incarnation are speculative and not really important, and in the face of science and philosophy the surest way we can be certain about God is by our inner awareness of him. Discipleship is expressed by good moral behaviour, but inward religious feeling is most important.

Classical Liberal 86%

Emergent/Postmodern 75%

Modern Liberal 61%

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 57%

Neo orthodox 54%

Roman Catholic 46%

Charismatic/Pentecostal 46%

Reformed Evangelical 25%

Fundamentalist 18%

Bolding is mine (and the same as rmsharpe's it looks like) and that sums up how I've felt on these things. It does lead to a feeling of being lost sometimes, but it also allows oneself to find themselves and God and spirituality, and it is deeply personal, even private to some extent.

 

[Mark Young]

It does lead to a feeling of being lost sometimes, but it also allows oneself to find themselves and God and spirituality, and it is deeply personal, even private to some extent.

In what ways do you feel lost?

 

[The Yankee]

In what ways do you feel lost?

The usual "finding yourself" stuff. That may always remain, but it gets less and less...perhaps as a result of experience and observation. I find it to be more personal and private and less about doctrine.