SPONG SAYS GOD IS DYING AND PROBABLY NOT REVIVABLE-Heretical retired Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong recently urged over 600 Methodists not to believe everything they read in the Bible (4/15 Chr. News). He has made a name for himself by attacking fundamentalist views of homosexuality, conversion and theism. The 4/27 World quotes Spong's explanation for Why Christianity Must Change or Die: "Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is probably not revivable. If the religion of the future depends on keeping alive the definitions of theism, then the human phenomenon that we call religion will have come to an end. If Christianity depends on a theistic definition of God, then we...are watching this noble religious system enter the rigor mortis of its own death throes." Spong questions Christ's virgin birth and physical resurrection. [The Calvary Contender, Vol XIX No 9 May 14, 2002]