"The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel got twisted around it. Instead of being Godâ€™s big message of saving love for the whole world, the gospel became a little bit of secret information on how to solve the pesky legal problem of original sin."

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Source : Brian D. McLaren (2012). “The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity”, p.186, John Wiley & Sons

Brian D. McLaren

#Dog Quotes #Secret Quotes #Church Quotes

“The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.”
“It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.”
“Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.”
“When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.”

Source : Source: www.today.com
“To be elect in Christ Jesus, and there is no other election, means to be incorporated into his mission to the world, to be the bearer of God saving purpose for his whole world, to be the sign and the agent and the firstfruit of his blessed kingdom which is for all.”

Source : Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.117, SPCK
“I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate product and extension - no time elapses between the exposure to language and the creation of rhythmic sensibility.”
“Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.”

Source : George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”
“To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.”

Source : Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”

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