Alice

“First, when people belittle the Bible as lacking in depth or sophistication, they probably haven't read it. It doesn't matter how smart or educated or studied someone is, to make a broad dismissals of the scriptures as having nothing to say to the modern world about what it means to be human is absurd and naive.”
― Rob Bell, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

“It's always a bad move to invent a Jesus who agrees with us rather than challenge us”
― Peter Enns, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

“This is why so many people are so confused when it comes to the Bible. They were taught by their pastor or parents or authority figures to submit to the authority of the bible, but that's impossible to do without submitting first to whoever is deciding what the Bible is even saying. And that requires trust. Because authority is a relational reality. Someone told you, This is how it is. The problem, of course, is that the folks who talk the most about the authority of the Bible also seem to talk the most about things like objective and absolute truth, truth that exists independent of relational realities.”
― Rob Bell, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

“Watching Jesus interpret his Bible, in his day and age, in his Jewish way, reinforces what we've been seeing all along in the book; the bible is an ancient book that makes sense if we look at it ancient ways.”
― Peter Enns, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It