If you’ve been around Christianity for any amount of time, you’ve likely heard a Christian leader, pastor, professor or other individual say, “the foundation of the Christian faith is the Bible.” What does this mean? Over the last 40 years of my life, when Christians asserted that the Bible is the foundation ofRead more
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Asking questions, Bible, Biblical inerrancy, Following Jesus, God in the face of Jesus, Jesus, Learning and growing, New humanity | Comments are Closed | 11 May, 2024 | 9
Asking questions, Authentic Christianity, Bible, Biblical inerrancy, Biblical violence, Christian hope, Evolving faith, Following Jesus, Forgiveness, God in the face of Jesus, God who risks, Learning and growing, Power & authority | Comments are Closed | 17 January, 2024 | 7
5-minute read Have you ever heard another Christian say, “You can’t base your faith in God and your trust in the Bible on feelings?” What exactly does that mean? In my experience, when Christians say the above statement to other Christians, it is often a way of telling them that on days theyRead more
Asking questions, Authentic Christianity, Bible, Evolving faith, Following Jesus, God in the face of Jesus, God in the questions, Jesus, Learning and growing, Spiritual journey | Comments are Closed | 22 September, 2023 | 7
Trusting God is such a huge topic with multiple intersections with other spiritual faith and Bible topics. I do not claim to have it all figured out. What I do offer here in this post are some starting points that may help shape the conversation in a constructive way. How Myth 5 is supposedRead more
Asking questions, Authentic Christianity, Bible, Biblical genocide, Biblical inerrancy, Biblical violence, Escapist theologies, Following Jesus, God in the face of Jesus, God in the questions, Jesus, Learning and growing, Power & authority, Self-made project | Comments are Closed | 6 September, 2023 | 6
At this point in the 10 Bible Myth series, someone who still believes in Biblical inerrancy may feel compelled to say, “Well Peter, if you begin questioning the Bible and Biblical inerrancy, where does it stop? It’s just a matter of time before you start compromising on other things in the Bible until there’s nothingRead more
Asking questions, Authentic Christianity, Bible, Biblical genocide, Biblical inerrancy, Biblical violence, Evolving faith, Following Jesus, Forgiveness, God in the face of Jesus, God in the questions, God who risks, Jesus, Learning and growing, Power & authority, Roman crucifixion, Sacrifice, Self-made project, Servant project | Comments are Closed | 7 August, 2023 | 5
Is that true? Are there no contradictions in the Bible? For most Christians who grew up with the Biblical inerrancy view, they were taught that none of the books of the Bible have errors or contradictions. None. Apparent contradictions are not real; they only seem like contradictions. Conveniently, there’s always a good reason for them that canRead more
Asking questions, Authentic Christianity, Bible, Biblical inerrancy, Biblical violence, Christian hope, Evolving faith, Following Jesus, God in the face of Jesus, God in the questions, Jesus, Learning and growing, Risk theology, Spiritual journey, Stories | Comments are Closed | 15 July, 2023 | 7
Have you ever wondered if the assumptions you’ve had about the Bible don’t really match with how you approach any other topic in life? Maybe they’re a bit outdated? Perhaps even unethical and unhealthy to cling to any longer? In today’s post, I want to present 10 myths about the Bible that many ChristiansRead more
Asking questions, Authentic Christianity, Bible, Biblical violence, Evangelicalism, Evolving faith, Following Jesus, Forgiveness, God in the face of Jesus, God in the questions, God who risks, Jesus, Learning and growing, Power & authority, Risk theology, Roman crucifixion, Sacrifice, Servant project, Stories | Comments are Closed | 30 June, 2022 | 14
I hope you have enjoyed the series on the atonement so far. In this final post, I want to answer some of the most difficult questions about the atonement that have come up in my journey over the last twenty years. Some of them came up while listening to sermons at church, some while doingRead more
Bible, Following Jesus, Forgiveness, God in the face of Jesus, God who risks, Jesus, Roman crucifixion, Sacrifice | Comments are Closed | 21 June, 2022 | 12
Over the last four articles, I have tried to present a pathway through the Scriptures and church history for understanding the atonement. This pathway has helped me better sort out what I personally believe, and I offer it in hopes that it might also help you in your earnest attempt to understand the meaning ofRead more
Bible, Biblical violence, Following Jesus, God in the face of Jesus, Jesus | Comments are Closed | 19 June, 2022 | 9
We’re half-way through the FaithRethink Series focusing on the atonement of Jesus. Some of you have been holding out for Cruciform: How the death of Jesus on a Roman cross changes everything where I will share the atonement theology I subscribe to. For now, I want to pick up from where we left off. InRead more
Christian hope, Escapist theologies, Following Jesus, God in the face of Jesus, New humanity, Power & authority | Comments are Closed | 16 June, 2022 | 9
What if I was to tell you that many of the most popular atonement theories developed over the last two-thousand years of church history (especially those following the third century AD/CE), have been deeply influenced by a storyline that is foreign to the pages of the Bible? We might say that the real Story ofRead more
