How to tell a real freethinker

[Darkstar]

Theology is an attempt to put the objective truths of this world into words. There can be human error. But if we modified doctrines for every new culture, trend and movement, there would be nothing left worth talking about.

That's right, people don't modify existing religions, they create new ones. Well, unless you count Protestants and Mormons, etc.

Science doesn't change on a cultural basis either, but rather on the newest evidence that has come in.

We'd have one giant ocean of opinions.

You already do. That is why Christianity has so many sects.

It's actually remarkable how long Christianity has been preserved,

Hinduism has been around longer.

how the Bible hasn't changed,
and how every message in scripture is still relevant today.

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Deuteronomy 13:6-9

6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people.

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Like a pupil and a teacher, theology's quest is to learn what God has to say and change ourselves in response. If the pupil spent all his time critiquing his teacher, what would he know by the end of the class?

If the teacher has no degree and keeps insisting on weird things that there is no evidence for...maybe you'd learn nothing if you took his word for everything.

A theologian admits he doesn't have all the answers, an atheist believes he does.

I'm not sure from what perspective you came to this conclusion, so I can only assume that this is an unabashed lie. What were we saying about science fixing its mistakes and theology never changing again?