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You see, I knew that complementarian theology—biblical womanhood—was wrong. I knew that it was based on a handful of verses read apart from their historical context and used as a lens to interpret the rest of the Bible. The tail wags the
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“I was brought up in a Christian environment where, because God had to be given pre-eminence, nothing else was allowed to be important. I have broken through to the position that because God exists, everything has significance.”360”
― The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
― The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
“Have you ever thought of how miraculous reading is? Easily taken for granted”
― After Dispensationalism: Reading the Bible for the End of the World
― After Dispensationalism: Reading the Bible for the End of the World
“What is the lesson in this historical parade of end-times prediction? While predictions of the world’s end often have spawned intense evangelistic outreach”
― After Dispensationalism: Reading the Bible for the End of the World
― After Dispensationalism: Reading the Bible for the End of the World
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“Misreading rhetorical techniques and skipping the social and historical contexts means that dispensationalist end-times writers don’t see the return from exile and the resettlement of the promised land as prophetic fulfilment. Most Old Testament passages that dispensationalists understand as speaking of the millennium point to”
― After Dispensationalism: Reading the Bible for the End of the World
― After Dispensationalism: Reading the Bible for the End of the World
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