Quotes & Sayings


We, and creation itself, actualize the possibilities of the God who sustains the world, towards becoming in the world in a fuller, more deeper way. - R.E. Slater

There is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have [consequential effects upon] the world around us. - Process Metaphysician Alfred North Whitehead

Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem says (i) all closed systems are unprovable within themselves and, that (ii) all open systems are rightly understood as incomplete. - R.E. Slater

The most true thing about you is what God has said to you in Christ, "You are My Beloved." - Tripp Fuller

The God among us is the God who refuses to be God without us, so great is God's Love. - Tripp Fuller

According to some Christian outlooks we were made for another world. Perhaps, rather, we were made for this world to recreate, reclaim, redeem, and renew unto God's future aspiration by the power of His Spirit. - R.E. Slater

Our eschatological ethos is to love. To stand with those who are oppressed. To stand against those who are oppressing. It is that simple. Love is our only calling and Christian Hope. - R.E. Slater

Secularization theory has been massively falsified. We don't live in an age of secularity. We live in an age of explosive, pervasive religiosity... an age of religious pluralism. - Peter L. Berger

Exploring the edge of life and faith in a post-everything world. - Todd Littleton

I don't need another reason to believe, your love is all around for me to see. – Anon

Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all. - Khalil Gibran, Prayer XXIII

Be careful what you pretend to be. You become what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut

Religious beliefs, far from being primary, are often shaped and adjusted by our social goals. - Jim Forest

We become who we are by what we believe and can justify. - R.E. Slater

People, even more than things, need to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. – Anon

Certainly, God's love has made fools of us all. - R.E. Slater

An apocalyptic Christian faith doesn't wait for Jesus to come, but for Jesus to become in our midst. - R.E. Slater

Christian belief in God begins with the cross and resurrection of Jesus, not with rational apologetics. - Eberhard Jüngel, Jürgen Moltmann

Our knowledge of God is through the 'I-Thou' encounter, not in finding God at the end of a syllogism or argument. There is a grave danger in any Christian treatment of God as an object. The God of Jesus Christ and Scripture is irreducibly subject and never made as an object, a force, a power, or a principle that can be manipulated. - Emil Brunner

“Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh” means "I will be that who I have yet to become." - God (Ex 3.14) or, conversely, “I AM who I AM Becoming.”

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. - Thomas Merton

The church is God's world-changing social experiment of bringing unlikes and differents to the Eucharist/Communion table to share life with one another as a new kind of family. When this happens, we show to the world what love, justice, peace, reconciliation, and life together is designed by God to be. The church is God's show-and-tell for the world to see how God wants us to live as a blended, global, polypluralistic family united with one will, by one Lord, and baptized by one Spirit. – Anon

The cross that is planted at the heart of the history of the world cannot be uprooted. - Jacques Ellul

The Unity in whose loving presence the universe unfolds is inside each person as a call to welcome the stranger, protect animals and the earth, respect the dignity of each person, think new thoughts, and help bring about ecological civilizations. - John Cobb & Farhan A. Shah

If you board the wrong train it is of no use running along the corridors of the train in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's justice is restorative rather than punitive; His discipline is merciful rather than punishing; His power is made perfect in weakness; and His grace is sufficient for all. – Anon

Our little [biblical] systems have their day; they have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of Thee, and Thou, O God art more than they. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

We can’t control God; God is uncontrollable. God can’t control us; God’s love is uncontrolling! - Thomas Jay Oord

Life in perspective but always in process... as we are relational beings in process to one another, so life events are in process in relation to each event... as God is to Self, is to world, is to us... like Father, like sons and daughters, like events... life in process yet always in perspective. - R.E. Slater

To promote societal transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework which includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace. - The Earth Charter Mission Statement

Christian humanism is the belief that human freedom, individual conscience, and unencumbered rational inquiry are compatible with the practice of Christianity or even intrinsic in its doctrine. It represents a philosophical union of Christian faith and classical humanist principles. - Scott Postma

It is never wise to have a self-appointed religious institution determine a nation's moral code. The opportunities for moral compromise and failure are high; the moral codes and creeds assuredly racist, discriminatory, or subjectively and religiously defined; and the pronouncement of inhumanitarian political objectives quite predictable. - R.E. Slater

God's love must both center and define the Christian faith and all religious or human faiths seeking human and ecological balance in worlds of subtraction, harm, tragedy, and evil. - R.E. Slater

In Whitehead’s process ontology, we can think of the experiential ground of reality as an eternal pulse whereby what is objectively public in one moment becomes subjectively prehended in the next, and whereby the subject that emerges from its feelings then perishes into public expression as an object (or “superject”) aiming for novelty. There is a rhythm of Being between object and subject, not an ontological division. This rhythm powers the creative growth of the universe from one occasion of experience to the next. This is the Whiteheadian mantra: “The many become one and are increased by one.” - Matthew Segall

Without Love there is no Truth. And True Truth is always Loving. There is no dichotomy between these terms but only seamless integration. This is the premier centering focus of a Processual Theology of Love. - R.E. Slater

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Note: Generally I do not respond to commentary. I may read the comments but wish to reserve my time to write (or write off the comments I read). Instead, I'd like to see our community help one another and in the helping encourage and exhort each of us towards Christian love in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. - re slater

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Friday, September 4, 2020

Index - How To Read The Bible




INDEX TO HOW TO READ THE BIBLE



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Bible – How to Read the Bible

Reading the Bible from the Eyes of Love






Bible - How to Read the Bible
6/24/12



Bible - Discussions 



Bible - Common Questions of God



How God Came to Be
12/23/19


Brian Zahnd - My Problem with the Bible
12/8/15

Andre Rabe - Questions About the Bible In A Postmodern Era, Parts 1-12
11/18/15

How Are We to Read the Bible? As a Divine Product or Human? Part 2 of 2
3/12/14

How Are We to Read the Bible? As a Divine Product or Human? Part 1 of 2
3/11/14

How Do You Read the Bible? Incarnationally, Inspirationally, Inerrantly, or Inexpertly?
12/13/13

How Narrow or Broad is Your View of Jesus and Scripture?
4/9/13



Bible - Canon of the Bible

Do We Have an Open Bible or a Closed Bible? Or, What Makes an Open Bible Closed?

A Review of the Historic v. Canonical v. Creedal Jesus of the Church

Book Review: The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries
12/22/19



Bible - Interpreting the OT












Bible - Questions of Faith


Bible - The Error of Christian Biblicism






Bible - Interpreting the Bible


Bible - The Importance of Biblical Hermeneutics/Interpretation

Book Review: Merold Westphal's Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church

Christian Smith: The Bible as Sacrament

Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Part 9

Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Part 8

Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Parts 6 and 7

Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Parts 4 and 5

Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Part 3

Review: Christian Smith - The Bible Made Impossible, Parts 1 and 2

Christian Smith - Introduction: The Bible Made Impossible


Bible - Historical Criticism


Biblical History is Actually Biblical Story Telling in the Bible
2/10/19

Biblical Interpretation - History v. Theology


Bible - Literary Types

Book Review: The Lost World of Scripture, by Walton and Sandy, Parts 1-3

"Is the Bible True" or "Is The Bible a Collection of Myths?"
4/16/15

Can God speak through myth?
7/17/12


Bible - Reading the Bible Theologically

I. Howared Marshall - Father of Open Theism
12/17/15





Bible - Women of the Bible

1/11/12





UNDER REVIEW & RE-ORGANIZATION....


Nazarenes Reject Strict Inerrancy in Favor of Soteriological Inerrancy of the Bible

One Bible, Two Testaments

Participatory Revelation in Process of Transformation (Or, Why Inerrancy Isn't All That)

Paul Tillich, The Protestant Principle, and Interpretive Doubt vs. Religious Authoritarianism

Peter Enns - "Five Views of Inerrancy," Part 2b - Peter Enns Responds

Peter Enns - Historical Criticism and Evangelicalism: An Uneasy Relationship
7/2/13

Peter Enns - "How Jesus Read His Bible," by Michael Hardin (Parts 1-4) + Videos: A Non-Violent Atonement

Peter Enns - How the Bible Actually Works

Peter Enns - Inerrancy, Historical Criticism, and the Slippery Slope
12/16/14

Peter Enns - Interview: "The Bible Tells Me So"

Peter Enns, "Scripture as a Polyphonic Text has not One, but Many Voices"
11/28/13

Peter Enns - The Bible as a "Human Book"

Pete Enns - The Evolution of Adam, Parts 1, 2, 3

Peter Enns: "The Problem of Inerrancy for Evangelicalism"
11/27/13

Pete Enns - Why "Original Author" [Theory] is Overrated
3/10/17

Popular False Claims About Biblical Scholarship & Historical Criticism
1/11/13

Reacting to the Virgin Birth of Mary and the Virgin Conception of Jesus

Rebecca Trotter - A New Fundamentalism

Reconciling Contemporary Christian Ethics with Social Justice in the OT

Refusing a Contemporary form of Paleo-Christianity, Part 2

Refusing a Contemporary form of Paleo-Christianity, Part 1

Rethinking Biblical Stories: "Is Jonah (and the Whale) Satire or History?"
11/8/13

Reviews of Konrad Schmid's "A Literary History of the Old Testament" - How the OT was Compiled
8/20/13

Roger Wolsey - 16 Ways Progressive Christians Interpret the Bible

Should Christians Resist the Pressure to Interpret the Bible Culturally?

Social Group Theory and the Question of "Whom Did Cain Marry?"
10/29/14

Something to Think About - "Could Moses Write Hebrew?"
9/21/17

Taste and Parody collide with Art and Music

Teaching the Bible in Public Schools - A Post-Evangelical Perspective of the Pros and Cons
5/28/17

Text & Culture - The Relevancy of God's Word to Contemporary Culture

The Authentic Rigor of the Bible as a Literary Narrative of the Ages
8/3/17

The Bible and Evolution, Inerrancy, and Other Matters
9/15/12

The Bible as a "Memory-Narrative" or "Mnemo-Narrative"
8/10/13

The Christian Challenge to Philosophy
6/15/15

The Doctrine of Inerrancy's Oblique Terminology and Virtual Meaninglessness

The Emerging Church and the New Perspective

The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say About Human Origins
2/6/12

The Experience of the Absence of God in the Christian Life
12/19/14

The God of Brokenness: Etherlyn Q. Naiah - Asking for "A New Day of Worship" (a Liberian Gospel Song)
3/6/14

The Historical Context of the Gospel of Mark's Ending

The Infallibility and Multi-Vocality of Scripture

The Jewishness of the Messianic Scriptures
1/16/14

The New Testament

The Old Testament
2/4/14

The Politics of the Bible Both Then and Now
4/6/15

The Politics of Jesus' Death Both Then and Now
4/5/15

The Presence of God in an Open Bible

The Problem of Faith and Religion in Christianity
5/3/14

The Role of Experience in Theology, Parts 1 & 2

The Seeming Incorrigible Perspective of Christian "Blik"

The Value of Asking Difficult Questions & Disturbing the Comfortable to Wrestle Afresh
5/14/12

Thinking Biblically - Its Misuses and Abuses

Translation and Theology - Jesus and the Early Church's Reading of the Greek OT Bible (the Septuagint)
7/2/13

Trying to Imagine the Age of the Bible in Our Contemporary Present
9/7/12

Walter Brueggemann, "The Practice of Prophetic Imagination"
2/15/12

Was the gospel told first to the serpent?

What do we mean by the word Literal?
2/15/12

What is Biblical or Historical Criticism? Part 1 of 3

What Is the Bible? A Good Question that Biblical Inerrancy Can't Answer
3/1/17

What is Theology?

What or Whom Do We Choose? The Bible or Jesus?

What To Do About Bad Theology
9/18/13

When Reading the Bible Learn to Discern Biblical Genre

Why Inerrancy Doesn't Matter

Why Women May Speak, Lead, and Teach in the Church
7/11/20

Working Towards a Biblical Interpretation that is both Relevant and Accurate