John Shelby Spong Quotes About Scripture

Quotes about: Scripture

• The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to people that means Mexicans and Canadians are a bit at risk if we want to be literal about the Bible.

  John Shelby Spong

  Mean, People, Risk

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions.

  John Shelby Spong

  Games, Atheism, Scripture

  John Shelby Spong (1994). “Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity”, Harpercollins

• The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

• In my book, The Sins of Scripture, I traced the development of tribal religion, which included ideas like God's killing the Egyptians because they hated the chosen people. Then a God of love finally appears in the Book of Hosea, about the 8th century. A God of justice appears in the Book of Amos in the late 8th century or early 7th century.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Ideas, People

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."

  John Shelby Spong

  Titles, Scripture, Facts

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people.

  John Shelby Spong

  People, Interesting, Together

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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