Samuel Andri

“One reason we misunderstand allegory is that we moderns think that reading is a matter of garnering information. For ancient Christians, reading scripture is a matter of being changed from one degree of glory to another, of being transformed (2 Cor. 3:18).”
― Jason Byassee, Surprised by Jesus Again: Reading the Bible in Communion with the Saints

“Every Christian in every age has been tempted to paper over scripture’s cracks, explain away its oddities, show it’s no different or more demanding than what we hearers already think we know about God and the world. This is a mistake. Scripture is spectacularly odd.”
― Jason Byassee, Surprised by Jesus Again: Reading the Bible in Communion with the Saints

“One of the first things we learn from our earliest teachers in the church is that the bible has a purpose, a point, a goal, a telos. It wants to save us. Or rather God wants to save us, and the whole world that God created in the first place, and all who bear the gospel to us leave their fingerprints on it as they transmit goodness to us.”
― Jason Byassee, Surprised by Jesus Again: Reading the Bible in Communion with the Saints

“The only way that apple trees, lilies, marriage and sex, gender and procreation, or even Bibles or language can reveal to us so much about the nature of God is that they’re good gifts that bear the imprint of their divine Maker.”
― Jason Byassee, Surprised by Jesus Again: Reading the Bible in Communion with the Saints