Comments on: The End of Religion https://jackasstheology.com/2019/04/05/the-end-of-religion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-end-of-religion For Love, Joy, Peace, and Basic Human Dignity Thu, 04 Jul 2019 03:39:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Neal F Brower https://jackasstheology.com/2019/04/05/the-end-of-religion/#comment-4275 Thu, 04 Jul 2019 03:39:03 +0000 http://jackasstheology.com/?p=1323#comment-4275 In reply to Kim VanderHelm.

I so love Kim’s interaction with these realities. Having been trained in one of the finest, exegetical/inerrantist schools, I love to clarify that in the end, the written word exists to reveal the Living Word. If we settle more for knowing what is written, than for intimacy with the living One, we have misused the words. We’ve missed The Word.
And Mark, bravo on promoting The End of Religion!

]]> By: Mark Beuving https://jackasstheology.com/2019/04/05/the-end-of-religion/#comment-4273 Wed, 03 Jul 2019 18:46:14 +0000 http://jackasstheology.com/?p=1323#comment-4273 In reply to Kim VanderHelm.

Hi Kim! Thanks for this great thought. I absolutely think there’s a foundational and indispensable place for Scripture. How could it be otherwise with words that came from God’s mouth? So I don’t think it’s about devaluing Scripture. We can’t do that. Thanks for the opportunity to clarify. But I think I have had times in my own life where Scripture has been THE point, where I’ve had more of a relationship with words on the page than the God they were spoken by and meant to draw me toward. Does that make sense? Maybe another way to say it is that James says that even the demons believe that God is one (2:19). I take this as a reminder that we can believe the right things about God but not be rightly related to God. And I think I’ve done that with regard to Scripture before. Treasured the truth of the Word without truly connecting with and worshipping the God who wrote the truth. Does that help at all or just mix things up more?

]]> By: Kim VanderHelm https://jackasstheology.com/2019/04/05/the-end-of-religion/#comment-4268 Sat, 29 Jun 2019 10:44:20 +0000 http://jackasstheology.com/?p=1323#comment-4268 Hi, I’ve been reading your posts for a bit and I just have one question or thought about part of this post. I so get what this book is saying and your points and agree, but the one thing that I, I guess what to explain about me is with the bible, besides creation it is the only true source for learning about God and Jesus. The thing that I guess worries me is man will accept other “sources” as ways to know Christ. So I don’t feel I worship scripture, but it definitely shows me how Christ is, and that I want to be like him. Does that make sense?

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