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So, chapter 5. Since I like to think I'm smart I've always wanted to understand Karl Barth, who turns out to be the main topic of chapter 5. Well, after many minutes watching YouTube videos and reading this chapter I've concluded that nobody understands Karl Barth. That means I can just bluff if he ever comes up in conversation. I did like the chapter though. The Bible is not an instruction manual.

Pointing out flaws in the popular evangelical view of the Bible is like shooting fish in a barrel. But now I have to read chapters 5, 6, and 7, which might teach me some really new things. I wish my former friends could read this book!!!

Today I read chapter 4. To track my "progress" here in Goodreads I will switch to percent since I am not reading the pages in order.

The problems with "Biblicism" outlined in this book were apparent on some level to me within a year or two of aligning myself with conservative Christianity fifty years ago. All you need to see them and speak of them is to be -outside- conservative Christianity. Inside, they vanish.

I spent most of the day reading the last 50 pages (and buying two more books as a result). Maybe there are three options: (1) "American" Christianity (2) liberal Christianity and (3) historic Christianity. Maybe I've been pursuing (3) all along.