Mayfield Salisbury Church in Edinburgh

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  Mo So

  :: 14 April 2017 21:45:30

  Nice church!

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  John Thayne

  :: 17 April 2016 21:05:56

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  Tristram Holden

  :: 28 February 2016 09:47:24

  Fascinating sermon, really makes you think. Church is lovely and a friendly feel to the place.

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  Trevor Kirkland

  :: 10 March 2015 19:50:14

  McKenna is an apostate

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  CoramDeo

  :: 03 March 2015 18:42:15

  This minister/church (Rev Scott MacKenna) is most definately NOT 'Reformed in doctrine'. It is in fact most heretical in its views. Christians beware. Shocking & Disturbing Sermons Rev Scott C McKenna – Minister of Mayfield Salisbury Parish (Edinburgh) Church of Scotland. Everything he said is word for word, and he ought (like Demas and Alexander the coppersmith) to be publicly named and shamed. This is the Reformation Scottish Church....in 2015! With deep concern ________________________________________________________ "Much of the theology surrounding the death of Jesus needs revision: substitutionary atonement needs to become confined to history" "Christianity has been on a two thousand year journey. In that time, it has spread from the shores of Lake Galilee to every country in the world and there is a diverse spectrum of theologies; many different views about Jesus. Christianity's beliefs are not to be thought of as static but, like all human thought, evolving. For example, any notion that heaven and hell are physical places above and below the earth has long since been discarded. Any notion that God has a concept of hell in which to torment people eternally has long since had its day, at least in this church! These stories are myths and require to be engaged with imaginatively." "The literal reading of Scripture combined with biblical inerrancy, are Protestant diseases. They offer reasonable objections to Christianity and expose the faith to ridicule. Do we want to try to persuade people that Moses parted the Red Sea, like Charleton Heston, or that Jesus walked on water and brought a corpse back to life? In the early nineteenth century, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus told the story of flesh being brought to life by the creative energy of electricity. Read literally, the story of Lazarus is perhaps little more than Dr Frankenstein’s creation." "However, the Church is in real difficulty and it may be that this situation is, in part, of its own making. The Church is in desperate need of another reformation! The last reformation - in the sixteenth century - was before the Enlightenment, before Darwin and the theory of evolution, before the rise of secular society and before a multi-faith society. The sovereignty of God, the wholly sinful, worthless nature of humanity, the predestination of saints and sinners, the centrality of humankind in the created order and the sacrificial atonement of Jesus, like an animal, are all well-past their sell-by date." "The Garden of Eden, the Fall, original sin and our restoration no longer make sense in an evolutionary universe in which we are still evolving! The theology of the Bible and that of the Reformation reflects a worldview that is no longer credible: heaven is not above us nor hell at the centre of the earth. God's omnipotence, God's supernatural agency, lacks all credibility in a post-Holocaust world. We now know the causes of tsunamis and floods; they have nothing to do with God's intervention. As long as we cling to any literal interpretation of Scripture we will remain on the back foot." "Our creeds are not only political documents, they are built on a Christian and all too literal understanding of Scripture. As long as we try to persuade the 21st century world, the world shaped by Galileo, Hume, Darwin and Higgs, that God parted the Red Sea, that Mary is the Immaculate Conception, Jesus resulted from a Virgin Birth, and that He walked on water, and his earthly body was raised from the dead, we are going to fail." If there was an option for zero stars, I would have used that.