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'''Liberal Theology''' is the one maintaining that [[mankind]] created God.{{#tag:ref|cf. [[Immanuel_Kant#Philosopher_of_Protestantism_vs._of_Evolutionary_thought|Immanuel Kant:Philosopher of Protestantism vs. of Evolutionary thought]]|group=note}} Such a position is exactly opposed to Classical or Orthodox Theology that, based on testimony and [[revelation]] in [[Scripture]]{{#tag:ref|cf. Genesis 1:27|group=note}}, has the proposition that [[God]] created mankind among its central tenets. In consequence of this difference, the scriptural texts are believed in Liberal theology to be purely a sort of legends and/or philosophical treatises considered as containing at the best some moral values worth of teaching, but do not make mankind accountable to Living God who created them and the World.<ref>{{cite book |title=Hermeneutics: Principles and Processes of Biblical Interpretation |author=Henry A. Virkler and K.G. Ayayo |publisher=Baker Publishing Group |year=2007 |pages=126 |isbn=9781441200457 |quote=Liberal theologians, as mentioned in earlier chapters, typically view Scripture as a product of the evolutionary development of Israel's religion. ...Rather than viewing the Bible as God's truth revealed by God to humanity, they believe Scripture to be humanity's thoughts about God. |url=http://www.christianbook.com/hermeneutics-principles-processes-interpretation-second-edition/henry-virkler/9780801031380/pd/031380}}</ref> As the god of Liberal Theology is just product of human mind, followers of this school of thought search for non-Biblical explanations of the origin of world and life where God plays no role whatsoever and they regard the Biblical passages on origins for being solely [[metaphor]]ical, usually referred to as a 'creation myth'.  

'''Liberal Theology''' is the one maintaining that [[mankind]] created God.{{#tag:ref|cf. [[Immanuel Kant#Philosopher of Protestantism vs. of Evolutionary thought|Immanuel Kant:Philosopher of Protestantism vs. of Evolutionary thought]]|group=note}} Such a position is exactly opposed to Classical or Orthodox Theology that, based on testimony and [[revelation]] in [[Scripture]]{{#tag:ref|cf. Genesis 1:27|group=note}}, has the proposition that [[God]] created mankind among its central tenets. In consequence of this difference, the scriptural texts are believed in Liberal theology to be purely a sort of legends and/or philosophical treatises considered as containing at the best some moral values worth of teaching, but do not make mankind accountable to Living God who created them and the World.<ref>{{cite book |title=Hermeneutics: Principles and Processes of Biblical Interpretation |author=Henry A. Virkler and K.G. Ayayo |publisher=Baker Publishing Group |year=2007 |pages=126 |isbn=9781441200457 |quote=Liberal theologians, as mentioned in earlier chapters, typically view Scripture as a product of the evolutionary development of Israel's religion. ...Rather than viewing the Bible as God's truth revealed by God to humanity, they believe Scripture to be humanity's thoughts about God. |url=http://www.christianbook.com/hermeneutics-principles-processes-interpretation-second-edition/henry-virkler/9780801031380/pd/031380}}</ref> As the god of Liberal Theology is just product of human mind, followers of this school of thought search for non-Biblical explanations of the origin of world and life where God plays no role whatsoever and they regard the Biblical passages on origins for being solely [[metaphor]]ical, usually referred to as a 'creation myth'.  

According to Wilhelm Busch, a [[Lutheran]] priest persecuted by [[Nazi]]s, such god as conceived by Liberal Theology, existing only in people's imagination as a construct of our time, who could be called and dismissed at one's discretion, would be completely ridiculous.<ref name="Jesus our destiny">{{cite book |title=Jesus our destiny |author=Wilhelm Busch |year=2001 |publisher=Brunen Publishing |place=Basel, Switzerland |page=70|isbn=0-86347-024-6 |url=ftp://bitflow.dyndns.org/english/WilhelmBusch/Jesus_Our_Destiny_2007.doc}}</ref> The [[Bible]] calls a god created by humans an [[idol]] and compares it to ''‘a scarecrow in a cucumber field’''.<ref>{{cite web |title=God and Idols, Jeremiah 10, New International Version (NIV)|publisher=Bible Gateway, Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+10%3A1-16&version=NIV}}</ref>  It portrays worshiping such god as worthless and makes distinction from the living God who made the [[earth]] by his power{{#tag:ref|''As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists '''only by virtue of a force''' which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. '''We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind'''. This mind is the matrix of all matter.'' [[Max Planck]], Das Wesen der Materie [The Nature of Matter], speech at Florence, Italy (1944); from Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Abt. Va, Rep. 11 Planck, Nr. 1797, quoted in <ref>{{cite book |title=The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief |author=Gregg Braden |publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com |year=2010 |isbn=9781458771957|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qLZRnDUyMgsC&pg=PA324&lpg=PA324&dq=Das+Wesen+der+Materie+Archiv+zur+Geschichte+der+Max-Planck-Gesellschaft&source=bl&ots=ihHz7_hEQr&sig=rkhB4u6o5TOdBtmAM1L06IpfMdQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TjDTU6rNGcHNygPhjoDQCg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Das%20Wesen%20der%20Materie%20Archiv%20zur%20Geschichte%20der%20Max-Planck-Gesellschaft&f=false}}</ref> (Emphasis [[Conservapedia]])|group=note}} and founded the world by his [[wisdom]].{{#tag:ref|cf. [[Intelligent design]]|group=note}}

According to Wilhelm Busch, a [[Lutheran]] priest persecuted by [[Nazi]]s, such god as conceived by Liberal Theology, existing only in people's imagination as a construct of our time, who could be called and dismissed at one's discretion, would be completely ridiculous.<ref name="Jesus our destiny">{{cite book |title=Jesus our destiny |author=Wilhelm Busch |year=2001 |publisher=Brunen Publishing |place=Basel, Switzerland |page=70|isbn=0-86347-024-6 |url=ftp://bitflow.dyndns.org/english/WilhelmBusch/Jesus_Our_Destiny_2007.doc}}</ref> The [[Bible]] calls a god created by humans an [[idol]] and compares it to ''‘a scarecrow in a cucumber field’''.<ref>{{cite web |title=God and Idols, Jeremiah 10, New International Version (NIV)|publisher=Bible Gateway, Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+10%3A1-16&version=NIV}}</ref>  It portrays worshiping such god as worthless and makes distinction from the living God who made the [[earth]] by his power{{#tag:ref|''As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists '''only by virtue of a force''' which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. '''We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind'''. This mind is the matrix of all matter.'' [[Max Planck]], Das Wesen der Materie [The Nature of Matter], speech at Florence, Italy (1944); from Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Abt. Va, Rep. 11 Planck, Nr. 1797, quoted in <ref>{{cite book |title=The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief |author=Gregg Braden |publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com |year=2010 |isbn=9781458771957|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qLZRnDUyMgsC&pg=PA324&lpg=PA324&dq=Das+Wesen+der+Materie+Archiv+zur+Geschichte+der+Max-Planck-Gesellschaft&source=bl&ots=ihHz7_hEQr&sig=rkhB4u6o5TOdBtmAM1L06IpfMdQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TjDTU6rNGcHNygPhjoDQCg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Das%20Wesen%20der%20Materie%20Archiv%20zur%20Geschichte%20der%20Max-Planck-Gesellschaft&f=false}}</ref> (Emphasis [[Conservapedia]])|group=note}} and founded the world by his [[wisdom]].{{#tag:ref|cf. [[Intelligent design]]|group=note}}