(Originally posted on Healing Hagar.)
The dominant theology of a good deal of the stories of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible is simple enough: please god and you’ll be blessed, displease god and you’ll suffer. You can see it as early as Genesis. Adam and Eve displease god and get kicked out of Eden. Humanity displeases god […]
The evangelical claim that the Bible is the “Word of God” is a curious one. In the first chapter of John’s Gospel we learn that Christ is the Word of God. If Christ is the Word of God made flesh, then is the Bible the Word of God made ink? Yet for […]