Doriane

“The New Covenant established by Jesus marks a massive shift from the religious law and customs Jesus was raised with, to a different kind of faith-based user experience. It’s Jesus’s software update, from Law 1.0 to Love 1.0. Calling oneself “Christian” is to accept the new terms and conditions.”
― John Fugelsang, Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

“When we reduce salvation and judgment to issues of the next life, we abandon this life and this earth to those who would exploit it. Jesus did not do this. Jesus did not come to anesthetize people with abstract promises. He came to awaken them to the reality of their situation. Jesus, like Jeremiah, warned that if people continued in a state of disconnection, despising instead of loving their neighbor, then the natural consequences of sin—Gehenna—would fall on their heads. Their oppressive, exclusionary tendencies would lead to their destruction. This message was political—the kind of message that could get you killed. The kind of message that could save the world.”
― Brian Recker, Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love

“Christians spend so much time arguing about what is “biblical” and “unbiblical” when we really should be distinguishing between what is Christlike and what is un-Christlike.”
― Zach W. Lambert, Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm into a Tool of Healing