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Brian Recker
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Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love
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“Maybe you’ve heard that sin means “missing the mark.” This doesn’t just mean “doing the wrong thing.” It means missing the whole point of life. “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23), because life is about love and connection, and sin is what disconnects us from God, ourselves, and each other. Sin is forgetting that we are all a part of this together. The alienation and estrangement of sin is its own punishment—it always leads to death.”
― Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love
― Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love
“Children raised in authoritarian religions often enter adulthood feeling ‘starved for love’ because their parents consistently prioritized obedience and compliance over nurture and connection.”
― Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love
― Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love
“A low view of ourselves made us vulnerable. We were taught to despise ourselves, so we did not learn to listen to ourselves. Believing ourselves to be untrustworthy, we outsourced our spiritual lives to patriarchal authorities. They told us to "trust the Bible" instead of our intuition, and we took their word for what the Bible meant - even though there is no single objectively correct interpretation of what the Bible meant, and our religious leaders often had harmful theological agenda, such as the exclusion of queer people and the subordination of women.”
― Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love
― Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love
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