Help My Unbelief Quotes

“The whole setup was based on distinctions that separated groups from one another and restricted access to the mercy seat. But something happened. The veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. In the moment that Jesus died on the Cross, distinctions came to an end. There was no longer any separation between the godly and the ungodly. There was no longer any curtain separating first class from second class.”
― Fleming Rutledge, Help My Unbelief

“The call to the Corinthian church was the call to love the fellow human being right there in the next pew, and to love him with all the love of God. For the love of God is the love of Christ, and the love of Christ is for victims and victimizers alike.”
― Rutledge, Help My Unbelief

“So you see, Jesus is on both sides. He is on the side of the victims, and he is also on the side of the perpetrators. That is why the Christian gospel is so radical. It is radically inclusive in ways that the politically correct crowd doesn't dream of. The gospel refuses to divide the world up into the correct and the incorrect, the righteous and the unrighteous, the innocent and the guilty. Jesus takes all that into himself.”
― Rutledge, Help My Unbelief

“I have remembered this episode for a long time because it so clearly illustrates the confusion we are in. We think of sin as a series of misdeeds, but in Biblical theology it is a condition.”
― Rutledge, Help My Unbelief

“The difference between
religion and the gospel is that God has said no to everybody, so that no one can boast before God.”
― Rutledge, Help My Unbelief

“Religion, being a human construct, allows
people to create a God after their own image instead of the other way round.”
― Rutledge, Help My Unbelief