“All denominations, whether liberal or conservative, share the conviction that they most faithfully follow Jesus. They earnestly believe Jesus imagined the church as looking just like them. When I became a Quaker, I sincerely believed Jesus had been raised in an early version of a Quaker meetinghouse.” “It seems arrogant for any of us to [...]
St. Augustine knew the weakness of the intellect: it was the individual’s brief experience sitting in reckless judgment upon the experience of the race; and how could forty years understand forty centuries? “Dispute not by excited argument,” he wrote to a friend, “those things which you do not yet comprehend or those which in the [...]
The “barbarians at the gates . . . were not interested in dialogue or understanding others’ actual views; they used the word “inerrancy” like a cudgel to beat up on people.” – Roger E. Olsen