“Our relationship with God is not contractual, so that we could fulfill the right conditions and it would have the desired results, as if our relationship with God resembled putting coins in a vending machine. It is a personal relationship,… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“God can of course look in someone’s mind to discover what he is thinking, or look into the future to discover what she will do, but here and elsewhere the Old Testament implies that God does not always do that.… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of its treatment of the Ten Commandments, a rabbinic commentary on Exodus, the Mekilta of Rabbi Ishmael, raises the question why… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“The imprecatory psalms are for us to pray, who are not victims. Indeed, if we do not want to pray them, it raises questions… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“What is distinctive and engaging about Jesus is not the novel things he says but the way he says things. He is creative not… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“We have noted thatthe two creation stories contained no pointers toward male “headship” in the sense that men or husbands are supposed to exercise… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“God is a different league of person from us, but God is a person like us, not an abstract force or a principle. So… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“I am told there are readers of Genesis who argue the following: If evolution is true, there was no Adam and Eve. If there… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“Although the First Testament talks about slavery, Middle Eastern slavery was not an inherently oppressive institution like the European slavery accepted under the Roman… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“the order in which Genesis reports on God and Noah is significant. First it tells us Noah found grace with God. Then it tells… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“So that is why grace found Noah. Not surprisingly the way this worked was evidently the same as the way God’s grace works elsewhere… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“the New Testament does not talk about human beings furthering or spreading or building up or working for God’s reign. Human efforts to achieve… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“Genesis supplements “created in God’s image” with the affirmation that God thus made humanity “male and female.” Women and men together comprise this image.… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“(Whereas we are inclined to equate the reality and the sense of the reality, these are different things—there can be a reality of God’s… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“Jesus’ disciples are not people lacking resources, but they are poor because they belong to this people under the oppressive and demoralizing dominion of… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“In none of the Gospels does Jesus tell his disciples to extend the kingdom, work for the kingdom, build up the kingdom, or further… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“Our relationship with God is not contractual, so that we could fulfill the right conditions and it would have the desired results, as if… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
