![]() ![]() He mocked my belief that God created Adam and Eve in His image and that every human being has value because of his or her imago Dei. He brought up suffering as evidence that God, as I understood Him, did not exist. He pointed to apparent contradictions in the Bible as proof that it wasn’t trustworthy. Over the next two years, he and I had several informal debates in the privacy of our music offices. ![]() Of course, it didn’t take long for him to identify me as one of those “crazy, dangerous fundamentalists who believes all this. Just not in the way I had thought.Īfter taking the job, I came to realize that this minister did not believe that Jesus rose from the dead, he did not believe the Bible was historically reliable, and he did not believe miracles were possible. I knew I would learn a lot from him.Īnd learn a lot, I did. My boss was an ordained Methodist minister and a former university music professor. Years ago I took a job working as the Music and Performing Arts Administrator at a large, reputable church near my home in Atlanta in hopes of learning as much as possible about choral music, music theory, and singing as worship. ![]()
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