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"The Bible You Didn’t Know You Could Believe In" by Jeffrey E. Frantz
Within the emerging world of Progressive Christianity this book seeks to present the Bible, God, and Jesus in ways and language that are believable.
Today’s traditional churches are losing increasing numbers from their congregations because of the impact of biblical literalism. In the wake of an historical-critical method of biblical scholarship, along with parallel progress in the sciences and other academic disciplines, viewing the Bible as the inerrant, infallible word of God is simply not adequate to our modern experience.
The author provides the reader with a modern view of the Bible, God, and Jesus that gives integrity to our beliefs, but does not rely on myth, superstitions, and literal translation.
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Sermon: What Makes Us Human?
Dr. Roger L. Ray, Community Christian Church
Anthropologist, Margaret Mead, said that the first sign of human civilization was the discovery of a 15,000 year old skeleton of a man who had a broken femur. She speculated that such an injury could only mean that others had cared for this man for several weeks while the broken bone mended, something that was not seen among our ancestors prior to that time. The issue is, however, that we have to make similar decisions every day to keep human evolution from slipping backwards. Especially, in the midst of this pandemic, we have to make choices to be more “human” as we care for those who are physically at risk, those who are unemployed, impoverished, and without either shelter or access to healthcare. Evolution didn’t happen once thousands of years ago, it is something that must be renewed daily or we are in danger of slipping back into more primitive if not reptilian ways of thinking.
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Dr. Roger L. Ray
pastor, The Emerging Church
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ProgressiveChristianity.org : What Makes Us Human?The Ending of Mark’s Gospel:
The Key to Understanding the Gospels and Christianity
by Dr. Peter E. Lewis
Scholarship and determined exploration of ancient sources for the canonical gospel of Mark has brought great rewards for the writer and readers of The Ending of Mark’s Gospel.
Peter Lewis’s work has indeed provided new ‘understanding of the gospels’. The reasons for and impact of variations in the form of the ending of Mark has been speculated on for a long time. Dr Lewis puts a credible case for a reconstructed original ending while providing multiple peripheral insights. His work challenges some long held assumptions and makes worthy corrections to previous scholarship.
This is a theological adventure in forensic classical philology and reads like an unfolding mystery novel with the evidence building for his ‘case’. An enjoyable read that takes theology and contemporary Jesus studies into a new era of thinking.
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