"The point is not that Jesus was a……" — Marcus Borg
"The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behaviour reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how to behave within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself."
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18 Quotes by Marcus Borg
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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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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 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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