Christian Controversies Quotes

“Christian leadership should include integrity, honesty, compassion, diplomacy, perception, common sense, and forgiveness. Serving as a Christian leader involves servant leadership, which is a radical commitment to their follower’s life that requires acting in love no matter what it costs that leader.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Jesus served as the supreme example of good Christian leadership through servant-hood, humility, taking risks, sharing responsibilities with others, and building a team. He placed the needs of others ahead of His own. He wasn’t judgmental and definitely wasn’t hypocritical.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Sadly, most Christians treat the Bible as a holy relic, something to worship. Definitely not something to read or understand.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Doing the rights things, even though no one knows about it, is much better to me than being known as a person who does the right things, especially if done for the wrong reasons.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Llily-livered, pansy-assed, bleeding-heart, wishy-washy, America-hating, namby-pamby Christian judgments don’t adhere to the teachings of Jesus.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Many Christian religions tend to make people feel worthless and broken. Instead, they should be spiritually uplifting and enriching.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“That's the beauty of science – it’s willing to correct itself when it finds itself in error.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Regrettably, many Christians support the church’s shame-based culture of manipulation, embarrassment, and disgrace to get what they want, which is to gain followers, power, influence, and obedience.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“I have a problem with a church that has its main mission aimed at preferential treatment of rich, attractive, influential, and gifted people. Instead, it should be more concerned with its people’s spiritual growth instead of administering an ancient museum.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Unlike the uneducated Christian followers from centuries ago, the typical Christian today has a particularly high level of suspicion of organized religion, including an acute sensitivity to hypocrisy. Leaders who think otherwise today won’t lead many.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Christian ethical decisions should be based upon personal honor, interpersonal relationships with others including non-Christians, and moral implications of the decisions. Anything less than this violates the teachings of Jesus.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“I was shocked to realize that this small town of about five thousand had three churches with this same denomination.  This is definitely a problem since we should be united so that the world may believe[373].  Instead, we’re divided, making it hard for the rest of the world to believe the Christian message[374].”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“According to several scholars, this was an incorrect assessment of that passage since Isaiah used that Hebrew word almah, a young woman, and not bethulah, a virgin, will be with child[254].  This singular word choice was another example involving linguistic, historical, literary, and cultural factors involved in assessing the meanings of the biblical stories.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“I obtained many of my copies from the Project Gutenberg site of free electronic books founded by Michael Hart in 1971.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Odes of Solomon.  The origin and date of writing are unknown. It contained beautiful songs of joy and peace.   Some believed them to be songs written by newly baptized Christians.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“First and Second Books of Maccabees. Written by an unknown Palestinian from 135 – 63 BCE, these contained a history of the Jews.  Both books can be found in the Catholic Bible.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Epistle of Jeremiah. Unknown author’s letter written in Greek to the Jewish captives of Nebuchadnezzer. It’s a warning to the people to beware of idolatry. The early church declared it canonical.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“First Gospel of The Infancy Of Jesus Christ.  Written by Thomas.  Used by early Christians along with the other four gospels. The Synod at Angamala condemned these gospel in 1559.  Mohammed may have used it to compile the Koran.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Book of the Secrets of Enoch.  Widely used by early Christians, it was found in Russia and Servia.  It explained and verified some of the darker and more mysterious passages of the New Testament.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

“Prayer of Azarias.  This prayer had been cut from the Bible. But in the Vulgate, the Greek translation of Daniel, it’s inserted in the third chapter between the twenty-third and twenty-fourth verses. It was Azarias’ prayer while he was standing in the fiery furnace with his two friends, Ananias and Misael.”
― Scott S. Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth