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Bible Myth #6: Christians should never question the Bible

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Authentic Christianity, Following Jesus, God in the questions, Learning and growing, Power & authority | Comments are Closed | 27 September, 2023 | 3

Today’s Myth suggests that Christians should never question the Bible. You may recall that I dealt with aspects of this myth in a previous post, but I thought it worth restating here alongside some new content.   What is meant by questioning the Bible? When Christian leaders and others claim that “Christians should never questionRead more

Bible Myth #5: Trusting God means trusting the Bible completely, not on human reason

By Peter Watts | 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

Bible Myth #4: Rejecting Biblical inerrancy leads us down “the slippery slope” to losing our faith

By Peter Watts | 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

Bible Myth #3: The original documents of the Bible are inspired by God; not the copies

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Bible, Biblical inerrancy, God in the questions, God who risks, Learning and growing, Open theism, Risk theology, Spiritual journey | Comments are Closed | 15 August, 2023 | 7

So the originals are inspired, but not the copies? The theory goes something like this. Long ago, God inspired the writing of the original documents (also called autographs) of the Bible. Meaning, copies (also called manuscripts) of those original documents are not what God inspired. It was the original documents only. The problem is thatRead more

Bible Myth #2: The Bible doesn’t contradict itself

By Peter Watts | 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

Bible Myth #1: The Bible is either all true or none of it’s true

By Peter Watts | American history, Asking questions, Bible, Biblical inerrancy, Evolving faith, God in the questions, Learning and growing, Spiritual journey, Stories | Comments are Closed | 17 July, 2023 | 5

In other words, for any of the Bible to be true and without error, all of the Bible must be true and without error.   For many Christians, this assumption is attached to what is called the doctrine of Biblical inspiration. This view assumes that God led holy men in the distant past to writeRead more

10 myths Christians believe about the Bible that are misguided

By Peter Watts | 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

A Hanukkah Story: Discovering it’s Meaning, Beauty & History

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Bible, God in the questions, Spiritual journey, Stories | Comments are Closed | 25 December, 2022 | 10

Imagine you are a Hebrew living in the 2nd century BCE in Israel. You are currently under occupation by a foreign nation. The remnants of the former Greek empire had invaded the land of your forefathers a century earlier. Judaism was eventually outlawed, and an alter was erected in your temple to the Greek godRead more

Questions and answers about the atonement

By Peter Watts | 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

7 atonement theories from church history

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Bible, Jesus, Learning and growing, Sacrifice, Uncategorized | Comments are Closed | 13 June, 2022 | 9

For the last two-thousand years, one of the central tenants of the Christian faith has been the assertion that Jesus Christ died on a cross for sin. What Christians have not always agreed on are the details of how this works out spiritually, practically and theologically. In particular, they have argued and debated over detailsRead more

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