Sophia Worship-1993 (Christian) re-imaging conference

1993 at a so-called Christian conference for re-imaging, the goddess of wisdom, Sophia, was worshipped. (Attended by reps from the United Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Church of Canada, Episcopalian and American Baptist,Quakers, United Church of Christ, as well as Catholic). Other examples of this New-Ageism entering the Christian Churches at that meeting include-

* Delores Williams of Union Theological Seminary,said: "I don't' think we need a theory of atonement at all. I think Jesus came for life and to show us something about life. I don't think weneed folks hanging on crosses and blood dripping and weird stuff ... wejust need to listen to the God within."

* Virginia Mollenkott, who participated in the translation of the NewInternational Version, said, "Jesus is our elder brother, the trailblazer and constant companion for us--ultimately is among many brothers and sisters in an eternal, equally worthy sibling-hood. First bornonly in the sense that he was the first to show us that it is possible to live in oneness with the divine source while we are here on this planet.

* Korea's Chung Hyung Kyung told the crowd, "My bowel is Buddhist bowel,my heart is Buddhist heart, my right brain is Confucian brain, and my left brain is Christian brain." & "When we do pranic healing, we believe that thislife-giving energy came from god and it is everywhere, it is in the sun, inthe ocean, from the ground and it is from the trees ... If you feel very tired and you don't have any energy to give, whatyou do is ... go to a big tree and ask it to `give me some of your life energy"

* During the conference, a group of roughly 100 "lesbian, bi-sexual, and transsexual women" gathered on the platform and were given a standing ovation by many in the crowd. They were "celebrating the miracle of being lesbian, out, and Christian."

* The Nov. 3, 1993, Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that"throughout the conference worship experiences will celebrate Sophia, the biblical goddess of creation." Sue Seid-Martin of the University of St. Thomas School of Divinity in St. Paul, Minn., claimed that this Sophiais "the suppressed part of the biblical tradition, and clearly the female face of the human psyche."

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man,..(or in this case a woman). Romans 1:22,23