Robin R. Meyers...a deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. (p. 151)
About This Quote
The mission of the Bible is indeed the most important mission in the world—and, I’ll argue at some length later, not just for religious people. But it’s hard for me to remain indifferent to the scope of what is wrong with religion at this point. The fact that religion can make believers feel good, but it also has the power to make them do bad things (which is less often true), and it certainly can make them make irrational decisions (which is more often true).
Source: Saving Jesus From The Church: How To Stop Worshiping Christ And Start Following Jesus
Some Similar Quotes
- Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices...
- I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)
- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."...
- You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world.( Matthew 5:14, The Message)
- Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.
More Quotes By Robin R. Meyers
- ...a deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. (p. 151)
- Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p....
- ...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from...
- If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit ourselves once again not to the worship of Christ, but to the imitation of Jesus. His invitation was not to believe,...
- Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)