Diversity Quote by Karen Armstrong

“Two things resulted from this “follow Torah by adding rules” approach. The first one is that Jesus thought this completely misunderstood how to do…

— Scot McKnight

“requires both the outrageousness of God and the daily work of decreasing so that Jesus and God’s vision of peace may increase.”

— Walter Brueggemann

“the First Testament is under no illusion about whether implementing the Torah has the potential to achieve God’s purpose for Israel’s life. There is…

— John E. Goldingay

“rather promote controlling religious practices that brought themselves more power, taking it from the people that Jesus truly wanted to enlighten.”

— Lee Vickers

“No matter how mistaken the biblical world view was, it provided a better basis for large-scale human cooperation.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The clear intent of our law is to enable a man to live in the world and yet hold his faith close to his…

— Herman Wouk

“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“God instituted laws whereby [the Spirits that He would send into the world] could have a privilege to advance life himself.”

— Joseph Smith

“Pivotally, what we find in Torah is not privatized religion but a social vision, not ascetic distancing from the world but a deep engagement…

— Shai Held

“God was the ultimate source of all that was divine. But there were lower divinities as well. Even within monotheistic Judaism.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

“If more of those who had set themselves to explain God’s ways through the years had devoted a greater portion of their energies to…

— Michael R. Phillips

“Jews also believed that divinities could become human and humans could become divine.”

— Bart D. Ehrman