The sin that Jesus bore, and that we are now empowered to live free from, includes all the sinful warrior deity images humans throughout history have projected onto God. In this way, the cross is at one and the same… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
The violent portraits of God in Scripture have become one of the biggest obstacles to believers coming to faith. When we can show how these portraits bear witness not to a violent God, but to the non-violent loving God revealed… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Consider these questions: Did Jesus ever suggest by word of example that we should aspire to acquire, let alone take over, the power of… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“God took on our humanity, our sin, and the just punishment that sin deserves, dying a God-forsaken, hellish death on the cross, because only… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
The holiness of the kingdom of God must be preserved. If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation- even… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Coming under others has a power to do what laws and bullets and bombs can never do—namely, bring about transformation in an enemy’s heart.… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Jesus’ life and ministry consistently reveal the humble character of a servant. Though he rightfully owned the entire cosmos, he, by choice, had no… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Why would these people do this for us?” This is the question the church ought to be continually raising in people’s minds by its… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“The question that wins the world is not, how can we get our “morally superior” way enforced in the world? The question that wins… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Accommodation is a central aspect of the cross-centered interpretation of violent portraits of God that I'm advocating. Like everything else in Cross Vision, this… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Second, if you disbelieve in the reality of good and evil spirit agents, you fundamentally change the narrative of Scripture. The motif of spiritual… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“many people have trouble passionately loving and living for God because they have a mental picture of him that inspires anything but passion.” — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry. To a frightful degree, I think, evangelicals fuse the… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
