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Way Quotes by John Shelby Spong
- Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
- The way you become divine is to become wholly human
- The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.
- The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
- You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a…
- The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.
- The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way…
- There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this…
- I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet…
- I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to…
- Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some…
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