A few days ago Rachel Held Evans wrote a response to Owen Strachan after he went on Twitter and accused her of heresy. And what was Evans’ great sin? She once used the female pronoun “She” in reference to God. *silence* Oooooohhh! Call the bishop! Call the magistrate! She called God “She”. He’s a he, […]
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As long as you teach the Bible, I have no problem with you.
An observation from Rob Bell: Somebody recently told me, ‘As long as you teach the Bible, I have no problem with you.’ Think about that for a moment. What that person was really saying is, ‘As long as you teach my version of the Bible, I’ll have no problem with you.‘ (Velvet Elvis, 44). Sigh. […]
What do we mean when we call something “heresy”?
Yesterday Davidstarlingm made the following statement concerning open theism: Open Theism is dangerous because it is very attractive and yet wholly heretical. It is attractive because it offers an explanation for difficult questions without openly contradicting any of the surface components of easy-believism Christianity. It is heretical because it produces a man-centered gospel and a […]
The thin ice of orthodoxy
This post is a sequel (sequel? Is that a proper word for a blog post?) to “Must a Christian believe God exists?” Tory Ninja writes: “But what sort of beliefs should we draw the line at? You have clearly said belief in God is one, what are some others? I’m not asking what beliefs we […]
Must a Christian believe God exists?
In the recent hullabaloo created by the slick marketing arm of HarperOne in which Rob Bell and Justin Taylor were played off against one another like a rousing rendition of “Dueling Banjos” down on the bayou, a number of questions have bubbled to the surface. But be careful, crocodiles lurk in those waters. Some of […]
Rob Bell, the heresy hunters, and the evangelical culture of fear
Apparently there was quite a kerfuffle this week when word got around that Rob Bell’s new (and as yet still unreleased) book Love Wins is, or probably does, or might, support universalism in some way. Apparently it all started when influential blogger Justin Taylor concluded after viewing a two minute promotional video that Bell is a […]
