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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Storm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.
- Denigrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path or the Muslim path. And I don't mind saying that I don't invalidate any of those paths.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to capture the essence of a God experience that they believe they had with Jesus of Nazareth.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe God is real, but I believe God calls me beyond myself to take responsibility for my life and to try top work to allow other people to be themselves and to take responsibility for their lives.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to play golf.
- Asked
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.
- Affirm
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible tells me that every life is holy; the Bible tells me that every life is loved; the Bible tells me that every life is called to be all that it can be.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from another planet; in addition, John's gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020