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Category: Robin R. Meyers

Robin R. Meyers

If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit ourselves once again not to the worship of Christ, but to the imitation of Jesus. His invitation was not to believe, but to follow. (p. 145)

christ, faith, jesus, the-church

Robin R. Meyers

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

faith, struggle

Robin R. Meyers

…the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be “protected” from collapsing. (p. 21)

biblical-scholarship, faith, scholarship, science

Robin R. Meyers

Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don’t need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p. 21)

apologetics, faith, love, theology, unconditional-love

Robin R. Meyers

…a deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. (p. 151)

bible, god, higher-criticism