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“We humans are not getting more evil or sinful but are simply getting more competent and efficient at whatever we want to do--including sin as willed violence. And so, we have become, as Genesis 4 warned us inaugurally, steadily or even exponentially better and better at violence. And now, at last, that capacity threatens not just the family or the tribe, but the world and the Earth.”
― How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation
― How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation
“When a metaphor gets big, it is called “tradition”; when it gets bigger, it is called “reality”;”
― The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus
― The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus
“My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”
― Who Is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus
― Who Is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus
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