Status Updates From Sinners in the Hands of a L...

“What is an enemy? An enemy is someone whose story you haven’t heard.”

Zahnd proclaims too much and proves too little. It’s full of either or statements and feels like a liberal trying to talk himself out of any ties to historic Christianity.

It’s nearly impossible not to highlight every line of this.

Perfect timing for this to come into my life. Been orbiting around it since 2021.

10/10

“A ‘Left Behind’ theology of Revelation turns the Lamb into a beast! It turns a text that was intended to subvert empire into a text that endorses empire.” (P. 173)

“ Revelation is a prophetic critique of the Roman Empire. Revelation is a daring proclamation that Jesus Christ, not Julius Caesar or any other emperor, is the world‘s true emperor and savior…Revelation is a wild and creative portrayal of the clash between the beastly empire of Rome and the peaceable reign of the Lamb of God.” (P.152-153)

“ Using hell as a means of scaring people into Christianity may also drive them out of Christianity when they become a little more thoughtful…

I believe in the God, who is the Father of Jesus and who relates to sinners in the very same way that Jesus did. I believe in the God revealed in Christ the heaven-sent Savior who harrows hell to rescue sinners… Sinners like me.” (P.145)