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on parker jesus creed nt blog jacobin christian ethics bites charis homebrewed christianity pete enns naturalis historia ancient jew review variant readings larry hurtado the jesus blog rachel held evans richard beck starts with a bang archives july 2020 june 2020 april 2020 december 2019 september 2019 august 2019 july 2019 june 2019 april 2019 march 2019 february 2019 december 2018 november 2018 october 2018 september 2018 august 2018 july 2018 june 2018 may 2018 april 2018 february 2018 january 2018 december 2017 august 2017 october 2013 september 2013 august 2013 july 2013 june 2013 may 2013 april 2013 march 2013 february 2013 january 2013 december 2012 november 2012 october 2012 september 2012 august 2012 july 2012 june 2012 may 2012 april 2012 march 2012 february 2012 january 2012 december 2011 november 2011 october 2011 september 2011 august 2011 july 2011 month july 2012 was mary really a virgin part 16 summary while i consider whether i really have anything useful to add to the chick fil a wars and whether the fact that i probably don t will keep me from saying something anyway you get the second to last installment of this incredibly long series about the virgin birth i suspect most people just joining the series don t have time to go back through 15 posts and those who have been following along since march might not even remember all that we ve discussed so before we get to the conclusion next week here s a summary of where we ve been continue reading was mary really a virgin part 16 summary posted on july 30 2012 categories hard questions learning tags bible books faith jesus new testament religion 4 comments on was mary really a virgin part 16 summary god keeps choosing us we ve had some birthdays in the disoriented household this month i have now been a father for four of my 30 years of life i was not prepared for the numerous ways in which fatherhood changes a person it s not the same for everyone i m sure but having children especially daughters changed the way i look at everything from movies and advertising to the bible and god the latter is especially significant the bible describes god as a parent numerous times ascribing to him the characteristics of both mother and father we tend only to focus on the latter to our discredit certainly we have picked up that mantle we often address god as father we talk about divine correction we often analogize god s actions with the actions of a parent but i don t think you can really get a handle on god s love until you experience what it s like to love unconditionally as a parent at least i couldn t my view of god has been radically reshaped by finally understanding the parental perspective on the actions of my children perhaps one of the most damaging doctrines with which i was raised is the notion that god does not hear listen to the prayers of those who have sinned this notion is taken as far as i can tell from a single verse isaiah 59 2 your misdeeds have separated you from god your sins have hidden his face from you so that you aren t heard continue reading god keeps choosing us posted on july 27 2012 july 27 2012 categories bible study parenting tags about me bible children literalism love old testament parenting religion leave a comment on god keeps choosing us god lets his children tell the story not much time for posting this morning but i highly recommend you go on over to peter enns blog and read this post i remember telling my middle school mates that my father was an engineer who left a promising academic career before coming to america he also knew a lot about guns since he was in world war 2 and killed bad guys left and right that story was genuinely connected to my real father but honor was at stake how i told the story was dictated unwittingly by rules of the schoolyard my father was a blue collar machinist not engineer who wanted to be a school teacher not academic but world war 2 got in the way he was in the war but i didn t dare let on that he did not fight for our side he was born in russia was captured by the germans and was forced to be a german russian translator and therefore a german soldier he also hated guns since his community in russia was pacifist mennonite but he won a turkey shoot when i was young a fact i exaggerated and incorporated into my narrative but i never mentioned the many things my father did that were also heroic but not quite as exciting like coming to all my little league games working long hours to make sure we kept a roof over our heads clothes on our backs and cars to get around in even though money was very tight had i talked like that it would have fallen on deaf ears when god lets his children tell the story the way that story is told is deeply and thoroughly influenced by the rules of the schoolyard in the case of the old testament that means ancient tribal societies that valued in their people and in their gods such things as taking land vanquishing i e killing or enslaving their foes and generally bragging about who has the best gods and the best kings that is how people thought and this rule is stamped all over the old testament this is a way of understanding why the bible behaves the way that it does it bears the marks of the limitations of the cultures posted on july 25 2012 categories bible study hard questions learning tags bible old testament religion leave a comment on god lets his children tell the story was mary really a virgin part 15 i think we re finally reaching the end of our journey through the various cases for and against the virginity of mary when she conceived jesus we ve looked at the texts the history the defenses one thing we have not looked at yet is now that we ve explored the conservative case for why the literal virgin conception is necessary why more liberal theologians argue it isn t i do not think the birth stories of matthew and luke are historically factual but i think they are profoundly true in another and more important sense i do not see these stories as historical reports but as literary creations as the latter they are not history remembered but rather metaphorical narratives using ancient religious imagery to express central truths about jesus significance that s marcus borg in his response to n t wright s defense of the virgin birth in the meaning of jesus two visions the pair s literary debate about all things jesus similar thomas boslooper in his 1962 work the virgin birth takes great pains to lay out the historical case against the literal historicity of the matthew and luke narratives yet in his introduction says if the church continues to deny neglect or misinterpret the virgin birth it will continue to fail to employ one of its chief tools for building a well ordered and moral society a truly catholic and ecumenical understanding of the virgin birth of jesus is demanded by the religious issues and moral climate of the twentieth century such an approach to an important biblical narrative may also help to produce a truly catholic and ecumenical church this from someone who believes the virgin birth is purely metaphorical so let it be rejected that those who reject the historicity of the virgin birth are not strong defenders of it in some sense the question is how do they get there how do they argue for truth apart from fact continue reading was mary really a virgin part 15 posted on july 24 2012 july 24 2012 categories bible study book reports hard questions history learning tags bible books faith history jesus new testament religion leave a comment on was mary really a virgin part 15 p o d christians and the f word what is more i consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing christ jesus my lord for whose sake i have lost all things i consider them shit that i may gain christ philippians 3 8 translators are clearly uncomfortable with the fact that the apostle paul uses a word in philippians 3 8 whose most accurate translation in modern english is a four letter word the closest i ve seen any translation get is dung kjv or sewer trash ceb but in fact paul is using a first century cuss word and if we were going to accurately bring his context forward to our own language we d say shit alex heath has a good explanation for why paul would do this i believe paul uses the word shit in this passage because he is trying to create an incredibly stark and extreme contrast between the the things of the world and the pursuit of christ it s serious business this is the same paul well potentially who in ephesians says don t let any foul words come out of your mouth but ephesians is a boilerplate epistle written as general encouragement and instruction to any churches who might need it the oldest versions of the letter have a blank where the addressees should be and so paul is speaking generally there whereas in a specific letter to a specific church he uses extremely strong language because he s making an extremely strong point so the lesson seems to be generally we should avoid trafficking in the crude language of the culture around us but occasionally the situation might call for a well placed profanity to get people s attention i ve been thinking about this because the rock group p o d has stirred up a kerfuffle on their latest album murdered love continue reading p o d christians and the f word posted on july 20 2012 categories current events hard questions tags music new testament pop culture prayer religion struggles theodicy 6 comments on p o d christians and the f word book review a better atonement by tony jones confession i don t care much for theology that would seem to be a problem given i m getting a degree in history and theology but my problem is not so much the study of god the strict definition of the word but how hard those who know a lot about theology make it for the rest of us sometimes when i read the homebrewed christianity blog or listen to their podcasts or when daniel kirk quotes at length from karl barth or when richard beck gets deep into the weeds with william stringfellow my head starts to hurt i don t think i m an unintelligent person but it seems the best theologians wind their thoughts into sentences of unimaginable length using inaccessible words and phrases almost as a sign of how theological they re being i don t care for that kind of writing and i don t think it does a service to the study of theology which granted is a fairly complex subject so i am very much appreciative of tony jones short e book a better atonement beyond the depraved doctrine of original sin in it tony tackles a complicated subject atonement and makes it easy to understand jones breaks his argument into three parts an argument against the doctrine of original sin an interlude in which he defends the historicity of jesus miracles and resurrection and an overview of alternatives to the dominant theory of penal substitutionary atonement psa the value in jones book lies in the final chapter his overview and analysis of the various atonement theories he runs through eight of them then concludes with his own this section is clearly written and easy to understand which is a refreshing break from typical theology writing close behind it is the interlude and its defense of jesus actual bodily resurrection this might not be fair to the more liberal among us but this section gives jones an immense amount of credibility as he questions the dominant atonement tradition of the modern church let s face it it s not terribly surprising for someone who rejects the physical resurrection of christ the oldest most central doctrine to orthodox christianity to question a newer less central doctrine but jones is a passionate and eloquent defender of the resurrection and the miracles of jesus which gives what he has to say about the work being done through those miracles through that resurrection and through the crucifixion added weight continue reading book review a better atonement by tony jones posted on july 19 2012 categories bible study book reports hard questions tags bible books faith jesus new testament religion 1 comment on book review a better atonement by tony jones whoops so i fully intended last week to write a going on vacation post but the stress of getting everything packed up and into the car drove it from my mind and though i brought my laptop with me never even opened it until this morning so instead this is a sorry i went on vacation and didn t tell you post i m pretty sure dropping off the face of the earth without warning for a whole week isn t right up there on the list of things you should do to sustain your blog traffic but the average hits per day actually increased when i was gone apparently the masses have spoken we like your blog better when you don t say anything undaunted i ll continue posting anyway starting tomorrow be warned posted on july 18 2012 categories uncategorized tags blog business leave a comment on whoops aslan and the renewal of the world one of the many things i love about the chronicles of narnia is that every time i read through the series i come away with something new often something new from each book now reading through prince caspian with my daughter i was struck by the scene in which lucy meets aslan for the first time since she and her siblings were pulled back into narnia if you don t know the story what is wrong with you just kidding but not really the pevensie siblings are pulled magically into narnia but despite being gone just one earth year a millennium has passed in narnia and the land is ruled by a race of humans called telmarines who have subjugated and done their best to exterminate any remnants of old narnia the talking beasts satyrs dryads fauns centaurs dwarves and the like the true heir to the throne caspian has fled for his life because his uncle miraz usurped the throne from caspian s father and killed all of his allies now caspian and the old narnians have turned to fight miraz and the telmarines and the pevensies might be able to help but they have to get to the camp first aslan has been absent from this story for hundreds of years his existence is doubted by many and only the youngest pevensie lucy seems to be able to see him after everyone else falls asleep lucy is awakened by a voice calling her name at long last she meets aslan again will the others see you too asked lucy certainly not at first said aslan later on it depends but they won t believe me said lucy it doesn t matter said aslan oh dear oh dear said lucy and i was so pleased at finding you again and i thought you d let me stay and i thought you d come roaring in and frighten all the enemies away like last time and now everything is going to be horrid it is hard for you little one said aslan but things never happen the same way twice it has been hard for us all in narnia before now continue reading aslan and the renewal of the world posted on july 10 2012 categories book reports tags books faith jesus religion the 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