Caution: Reading the bible may be hazardous to your soul. Common side effects include either despair or self-righteousness. If symptoms persist they are fatal. However, not everyone who reads the bible will experience side effects. “To preach the Bible as “the handbook for life,” or as the answer to every question, rather than as the [...]
We learned from The Da Vinci Code that Emperor Constantine in the early 4th century CE through the Council of Nicaea changed Jesus’ status from fully human to a deity. When Jesus became God he ceased to be human. The Messiah promised to the Jewish nation in the Old Testament became the God which was [...]
“Poetry is more the language of biblical faith than prose or philosophy.” “The bible is “the mind of God made available to us. The Bible “thinks,” not in propositions and bullet points, but in images, metaphors, narratives, symbols, and song.”
“Organized religion has been assuming that because it has a better product- namely, God- that it simply needs to open the doors and customers will line up. That assumption no longer holds.” –Leonard Sweet, The Gospel According to Starbucks, p. 5.
A funny thing happened on the way to post modern Christianity. B.B. Warfield (professor of theology at Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921) insisted that Christianity is not defined by the subjective experiences of Christians but the objective validity of facts presented in the bible. William James (The Varieties of Religious Experience – 1902) however, [...]