John Shelby Spong Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Humanity, Mind

  "Why We Must Reclaim The Bible From Fundamentalists". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

• You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing Grace" without reminding yourself that the reason God's grace is amazing is it saves a wretch like you. This self-denigration stuff - Jesus died for my sins - is nothing but a guilt message. That's the thing we've got to get out from under. That's not Christianity. That's sort of fourth-century Christianity that got turned into doctrines and dogmas that we've never been able to escape.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Self, Grace

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

• The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

  John Shelby Spong

  Sacrifice, Views, Ideas

• I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life.
  The primary reason the old idea of rescuing the fallen is no good is that there never was a time when we fell from perfection into sin.

  John Shelby Spong

  Life, Religious, Jesus

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.

  John Shelby Spong

  Angel, People, Perfect

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• 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

• I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

  John Shelby Spong

  Fall, Light, Perfect

• 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

• You don't take your newborn baby, put that baby on your lap, and say, "Now listen, kid, you were born in sin, you're not worth anything, and you've got to pray for mercy." That's not going to raise a healthy adult. And that's what we do Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.

  John Shelby Spong

  Baby, Kids, Sunday

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

• The primary message of the Christian Church is that we were born in sin and we need to be rescued; we cannot rescue ourselves, so God comes to our rescue, pays the price of our sin and transforms us through the death of Jesus.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Jesus, Pay The Price

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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