Petition Text: 22217-DI-NonDis-O

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Whereas, The United Methodist Church has been termed a "non-creedal" church--meaning, presumably, that we have no official creed or doctrine by which we define and identify ourselves, supposedly allowing for a diverse theology and an environment of pluralism; and

Whereas, this atmosphere of inconclusive beliefs has tolerated many unscriptural and even heretical statements of theological belief in the name of "pluralism;" and

Whereas, it is partly due to this lack of a denominationally well-defined theology and the subsequent infiltration of a radical liberalism that has prompted many of our members to leave our Church;

Be it therefore resolved, that the Articles of Religion as contained in ¶ 67 and Our Theological Task as contained in ¶ 68 of the Book of Discipline (1992) be hereby adopted as the official Theological Creed of The United Methodist Church and publicized and distributed as such.

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Petition Text: 22217-DI-NonDis-O
1996 United Methodist General Conference