The orthodox Christian answer — and one with which I concur — is that the Bible is not actually God’s word. Jesus the Christ is God’s Word, and the Bible is the unique testimony to Jesus. Insofar as the Bible witnesses to God’s revelation of Godself in Jesus of Nazareth, then the Bible is the testimony to the Word of God — but the Bible in and of itself is not God’s word.
I object when fundamentalism is viewed as orthodox. We have to claim the Bible as our own territory in which fundamentalism is a trespasser.
— Jeremy John (@glassdimly) March 27, 2013
Return to the Lord, your God,The Prophet Joel
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love,
and relents from punishing.
The way I look at eschatology is that someday the world will end. When that happens no human will be able to do anything about it. Some people are obsessed with the end times and this provides a good excuse (they think) to ignore chronic long term problems such as poverty or global warming etc. I believe that until the end does come we should be doing what we can to make things better right here right now.
For most people the “end” is not the apocalypse but it is there own death. We should be living our life now so that when death comes we are ready to meet God. I think Jesus’ parable about the Foolish Rich Man illustrates this well…..
Jesus, a Theography | Sweet / Viola interview and book recommendation…..
The Guidebook NRSV study Bible for mainline protestants and progressive Christians…
Oremus Bible Browser | look up verses and make permalinks for several versions of the Holy Bible…..
http://goo.gl/tozEr TaborBlog | Religious studies blog of James D. Tabor….
Speak out for those who cannot speak,
for the rights of all the destitute.
Speak out, judge righteously,
defend the rights of the poor and needy.
- http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=214959415
http://goo.gl/soIco | Life in the Trinity
He has told you, O mortal, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,http://goo.gl/Orzxv Isaiah 55:10-11| This is one of my favorite scriptures….
and do not return there until they have watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Wisdom….
Prov 14:31 “He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.” — Christian Democrats (@ChristianDems)
