Greg Boyd Tackles The Myth Of The Christian Religion

[aerycksmusic]

One of the biggest myths about being a Christian is thinking it's all about a set of rules and then getting caught up trying to keep them to somehow earn your ticket to glory land. Deconstruct that legalism, I say. Then you can begin to look at Jesus in a whole new light. Peace, BD

[aerycksmusic]

Right on!



[xxDCshoOzexx]

All religions are bullshit. It's people brainwashing you making you think that you KNOW what happens when you die and you KNOW how the world was created and there is a heaven and hell. You are wasting your time following every rule that everybody tells you just so you think your "soul" will float up into a bunch of clouds and you meet a giant bearded man. Wake up and open your fucking eyes. You don't know everything. You can't explain the unexplainable.

[stickman2012]

@xxDCshoOzexx

suit yourself.

[aerycksmusic]

@xxDCshoOzexx - You say 'You are wasting your time following every rule that everybody tells you ....' Which rules are these?

[xxDCshoOzexx]

@aerycksmusic wait for sex until your married, don't masterbate, honor your parents, don't lie, etc. Live your own life and be brainwashed into thinking you can't.

[xxDCshoOzexx]

@xxDCshoOzexx Don't*

[aerycksmusic]

@xxDCshoOzexx - There are actually about 101 laws in the New Testament, but things have changed since those old times of keeping a long list of laws. The only law is the law of love, or the spirit which is basically more about common sense and consideration.

[ricardinhosigwalt]

uglyness, beauty, trust, love, hate, punishment, salvation... it all about human beings... god is slightly above of that... how can you define god if you can even imagine nor understand what omnipresence is?

[timsh6]

well said

[profskett]

@johnny40773

No, he (Laws631) is not saying he actually thinks that. He is taking an idea that Greg Boyd espouses (namely Open Theism) and twisting it into something resembles neither the content nor the spirit of anything that Greg, or any other Open Theist that I know of, has written or intended to communicate. This is a straw-man argument, and best ignored.

@livefreeromans8

Good shout!

[Halimarie77]

good words. I'll start with myself to be the salt and light of the world by following Christ and just being myself and using my talents. Religion and be comforting, often because we are in control of it rather than God, who often does not give us a structured pattern to follow.

[livefreeromans8]

Heretic? "a dissenter from established religious dogma". In that sense...Yes, Dr. Boyd is a heretic. This also fits Jesus perfectly who bucked the system of his day. According to the Bible, a heretic is one who denies that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God. This is not Dr. Boyd. His beliefs are being taught in respected, Biblical Seminaries as 1 of many theological options. John Calvin didn't die for your sins! Also don't confuse Boyd with other Open Theologians...not the same.

[Laws631]

Typical "new breed/emergent church/ecumenism" .. teaches thousands of people that "God does NOT know the future. Not even God can know the future. He can take incredibly wise guesses but He can be fooled, can make wrong choices, can give false guidance, can be mistaken, and can be resisted to the point of frustration. The open God is a God who not only lacks control, but also lacks knowledge of the future, for this is the only way that humans can be truly free moral creatures." Heretic.

[johnny40773]

@Laws631

Are you serious?? So you are basically saying that God is not Omniscient? Wow so you are ignoring every biblical teaching.... Ok tell me good friend what does your picture of God look like?

[hiddenstampede]

Where's the place to buy that shirt? :D