"The early evangelists recognized they could help the Jesus story make sense if Jesus was seen as someone who was chosen to appease the wrath of God - hence, the 'anointed one' who could do what no one else could do."

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Source : Doug Pagitt (2012). “A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-well Faith for the Left Out, Left Behind, and Let Down in us All”, p.99, John Wiley & Sons

Doug Pagitt

#Jesus Quotes #Wrath Quotes #Stories Quotes

“But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.”
“I always think anything is possible.”

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“It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.”
“After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'”
“Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.”
“Eva [Braun] and I were never involved in the financial aspects of where [Adolf] Hitler put her up.”
“Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.”
“Giving is the highest expression of our power.”

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