You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.
— Rachel Held Evans Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
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What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
— Rachel Held Evans Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
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Invariably, I will be referred to Gleason Archer's massive Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, a heavy volume that seeks to provide the reader with sound explanations for every conceivable puzzle found within the Bible - from whether God approved of Rahab's lie, to where Cain got his wife. (Note to well-meaning apologists: it's not always the best idea to present a skeptic with a five-hundred-page book listing hundreds of apparent contradictions in Scripture when the skeptic didn't even know that half of them existed before you recommended it.)
— Rachel Held Evans Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
Tags: spirituality, skeptics, christianity, bible, answers
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
— Rachel Held Evans Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
Tags: worldview, spirituality, fundamentalism, christianity, bible
My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.
— Rachel Held Evans Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
Tags: spirituality, interpretation, inerrancy, bible
When you stop trying to force the Bible to be something it's not--static, perspicacious, certain, absolute--then you're free to revel in what it is: living, breathing, confounding, surprising, and yes, perhaps even magic.
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