Both sides …
One response to NKOCy:
I’ve just finished reading A New Kind of Christianity, and want to thank you for your refreshing thoughts and ideas. I have a new enthusiasm and hope as a follower of Jesus; a new courage to live out my faith- because it doesn’t sound ‘corny’ in this understanding; and a new sense of belonging to a community that is rethinking and rediscovering what our faith really means. The questions were ones I have been asking for years. I struggled as a teacher of junior high catechism when I questioned the very things I was supposed to be teaching.
Thank you, thank you, for opening a new understanding (and affirming some of my own thoughts), for me and many others.
A response with a very different tone after the jump …
Posted on Amazon …
I found this ‘flimsy whimsy’ from an angry wealthy post-grad middle-aged-emergent white male liberalist on the attack against the Bible God not just questions transforming the faith. It whiffs of a superior skeptical attitude of questionings transplanting foreign tissue into what some people presume is the faith. The devil deceived Eve into similar questionings: “Did God really say so? Come on. Not!” It’s a rotten banana nourishing only to fruit flies. Challenge: read what the apostles taught in the Book of Acts that was the Kingdom Gospel of Jesus turning the world upside down. Compare to this ex literature professor’s questionings and malpractice transplant surgery on the Bible. Which of the 2 diametrically opposed dogmas will save your soul from the wrath of God on Judgment Day when King Jesus returns to reward the righteous-by-faith and punish the unrighteous-by-unbelief? What kinda Christianity do you have? “Anyone who does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar…Who is the liar? That man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is antichrist – denying the Father and the Son..”
Setting the merits of my book completely aside, which of these two respondents sounds like better company?
