At this point, I can almost rest the case I lay out in How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: accept and follow the assertion of the nonviolent historical Jesus as the image and revelation of a nonviolent God; understand and reject the subversion that changes him across two stages, first into rhetorical and then into physical violence. In other words, I already have the solution to the challenge of How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian—for those who have eyes to see—within the Christian Bible itself: if the biblical Christ is the norm, criterion, and discriminant of the
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