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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 Worldand them.<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> Liberal Theology reinforces the secular caricature that [[Christianity]] and reality occupy two separate zones. Christian faith is thought to be only ‘in your head’, some emotional crutch that might ‘work for you’, but has nothing to do with hard facts. 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=httphttps://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}}

|date=August 1998 |url=httphttps://creation.com/loving-god-with-all-your-mind-logic-and-creation |accessdate=28 November 2015}}</ref>

While theologically conservative, evangelical Christianity has remained steady in the United States, mainline Protestant denominations, which strongly tend to be theologically liberal and compromised, are in large decline.<ref>Stetzer, Ed (May 16, 2015). [httphttps://www.cnn.com/2015/05/16/living/christianity-american-dead/?utm_source=Cultural+Commentary&utm_campaign=36e55c71c7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_51f776a552-36e55c71c7-273780261&mc_cid=36e55c71c7&mc_eid=067f1df51b No, American Christianity is not dead]. ''CNN''. Retrieved Janaury 17, 2017.</ref> Additionally, according to a five-year study published in late-2016 by David Millard Haskell from Wilfrid Laurier University, "conservative Protestant theology, with its more literal view of the Bible, is a significant predictor of church growth while liberal theology leads to decline.”<ref>Foley, Avery (February 2, 2017). [https://answersingenesis.org/christianity/church/new-study-liberal-theology-doesnt-save-shrinking-congregations/ New Study: Liberal Theology Doesn’t Save Shrinking Congregations]. ''Answers in Genesis''. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref>