"Christianity's goal is not escape from this world.……" — Marcus Borg
"Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better."
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18 Quotes by Marcus Borg
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So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I…
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How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?
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The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being…
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When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives;…
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'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe…
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The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same…
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The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things
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God’s dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth.
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The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.
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Imagine that Christianity is about loving God,
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Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a…
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God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what…
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