Jared
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“I’m not sure it’s possible to manipulate someone with candor and truth. I think you call that enlightenment.”
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“When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey. That journey was recorded over a thousand-year span of time, by different writers, with different personalities, at different times, under different circumstances, and for different reasons. In”
― The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
― The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
“Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It’s actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all. A”
― The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
― The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
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