Who Said That?

"As we’re about to do that, let us remember what we are doing. We not only celebrate that death and that promise of return, but we’re feeding by eating God, which is what we’re doing here, by eating the body and blood of our God, we are feeding the God within us. For as we take those elements, the Spirit also feeds within us, and is reinvigorated as he, or she, or it is by our faith.”

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Update on Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 02:51PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This drivel is from Phyllis Tickle, who was speaking at Rob Bell's church about the 'feminine attributes' of the Holy Spirit.

Who Said That?

"The work of salvation is first of all the illumination that all of us are loved by God with the greatest love we can imagine -- the love that loves us not in spite of who we are but because of who we are . . . address[ed] not to a sinner but to the beloved . . . [who is] not evil but loving wrongly."

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Update on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 04:47PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This comes from feminist theologian Sallie McFague's Models of God:  Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age (1987), 144.

Who Said That?

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

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Update on Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 04:12PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This oft-quoted but unsourced comment has been attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

Who Said That?

"We believe that everyone at birth is given a Life’s Assignment. This Assignment is weaned and nurtured through your dreams, visions and goals. To truly accomplish this Assignment, however, you must first be equipped to generate the wealth and resources necessary to finance your Life’s Mission.  Many highly capable men and women have, unfortunately, fallen short of achieving their dreams because they do not know how to use their God-given ability to generate wealth. The good news is that you have already been equipped with everything you need to succeed in life. You simply need to know how to develop and use the millionaire seed already inside of you."

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Update on Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 09:39AM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is from the "Millionaire University" tied to "John Avanzini Ministries."

Who Said That?

"I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world."

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Update on Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 05:19PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a quote from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Larry King Weekend, May 12, 2002.  This must be the prosperity gospel of the East!

Who Said That?

"The righteousness of Jesus Christ ever remains the exclusive ground of the believer’s justification, but the personal godliness of the believer is also necessary for his justification in the judgment of the last day."

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Update on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 03:42PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This comes from "Thirty-four Theses on Justification in Relation to Faith, Repentance, and Good Works" presented by Norman Shepherd to the Presbytery of Philadelphia of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, November 18, 1978.

Who Said That?

"We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life. Legal metaphors for faith don't deliver a way of life. We grew up in churches where people knew the nine verses why we don't speak in tongues, but had never experienced the overwhelming presence of God . . . [We are] discovering the Bible as a human product. . . . The Bible is still in the center for us, but it's a different kind of center. We want to embrace mystery, rather than conquer it."

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Update on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 01:30PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a quote from Rob Bell (along with his wife Kristen) from a recent CT interview. It can be found here (http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/000271.html).

Who Said That?

"The Gospels were written 35 to 65 years after Jesus' death -- 35 or 65 years after his death, not by people who were eyewitnesses, but by people living later. The Gospels were written by highly literate, trained, Greek-speaking Christians of the second and third generation. They're not written by Jesus' Aramaic-speaking followers. They're written by people living 30, 40, 50, 60 years later. Where did these people get their information from? I should point out that the Gospels say they're written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. But that's just in your English Bible. That's the title of these Gospels, but whoever wrote the Gospel of Matthew didn't call it the Gospel of Matthew. Whoever wrote the Gospel of Matthew simply wrote his Gospel, and somebody later said it's the Gospel according to Matthew. Somebody later is telling you who wrote it. The titles are later additions. These are not eyewitness accounts."

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Update on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 02:34PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is Bart Ehrman's take on the historical reliabilty of the New Testament.  This is a quote from a debate between Ehrman and William Lane Craig, in which Craig cleaned Ehrman's clock (so to speak).  The debate was held March 28, 2006 @ the College of the Holy Cross in Worchester, MA.

Who Said That?

"Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms...They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened...Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally!...I choose not to believe that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know?"

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Update on Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 04:41PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a quote from Bruce Willis, reportedly a former LCMS member, now Hollywood celeb.  The quote was posted on the Celeb Atheist website, in June, 2007.

Who Said That?

"We do not need to be saved by Jesus' death from original sin. We need to be liberated from the oppression of racism, classism, and sexism, that is, from patriarchy."

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Update on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 07:17PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a quote from Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique, by Joanne Carlson Brown and Carole R. Bohn, Pilgrim Press, 1989, (26).