Thursday, March 21, 2013

Ordination Question #2

Continuing with my answers as submitted to the BOOM. This is a fun one.

Disclaimer: Feel free to read the answers and use them for guidance. Please don't plagiarize. It's likely your BOOM knows how to use Google. That's the basic amoral reason to not copy. The moral reason is that plagiarism is lying. The more important reason is you need to answer these questions. The Board needs to know what you believe. Even more so, you need to know what you believe. 

This post contains links to all the questions.

Note: Because of plagiarism concerns I have included only the opening sentences of each answer. Good luck with your paperwork.
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2.      What is your understanding of evil as it exists in the world?
I must begin by stating that I do believe evil exists in the world. Many would like to explain away evil as less than what it is (as an isolated “bad apple” for example). I do not doubt that evil exists. As stated in “The Articles of Religion of the Methodist Church” from the Book of Discipline, Original sin “is the corruption of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and of his own nature inclined to evil, and that continually” (Article VII).
The “Problem of Evil” faces every pastor at some point in his or her ministry....

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