“What Scripture and church tradition teach about there being a wider spiritual reality of angels, demons, and miracles was relevant back in biblical times, and it may become relevant again at some point in the distant future. But it is simply not relevant for us today. For our present lives on Earth, we live in a completely naturalistic closed system, and religion is limited to what we think, say, and do within this closed system.”
Few United Methodists would state an anti-supernaturalistic worldview so baldly. But sometimes we act as if that is what we believe.
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