“Too often when a person's experience and the standard interpretation of Scripture don't add up we immediately blame the person instead of interrogating our understanding of Scripture. It is far easier to believe that someone else is wrong or does not have enough faith than it is to face the truth that it's possible that our interpretation doesn't match how reality works.”
― Context
― Context
“Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that what we say will never say it all.”
― Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God) – A Biblical Scholar's Guide to Faith Growing Through Doubt
― Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God) – A Biblical Scholar's Guide to Faith Growing Through Doubt
“In many ways this is one of the central questions of our time about everything: is the best future a return to an imagined, pristine era when things were ideal, or is our best future actually in the future?”
― What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Bell, Rob on 14/03/2013 unknown edition
― What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Bell, Rob on 14/03/2013 unknown edition
“One of the key themes in Revelation is about who you worship, because the object of your worship is a sign of your true allegiance.”
― Revelation for Normal People: A Guide to the Strangest and Most Dangerous Book in the Bible
― Revelation for Normal People: A Guide to the Strangest and Most Dangerous Book in the Bible
“Beginning with the context that produced a text then allows us to ask the question we really want to ask, the question that causes us to come to the Bible in the first place: What is this saying to us, today?”
― Context
― Context
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