How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

Islam was a new story about a different God, one who is not the same as the God found in Genesis through the Old Testament.

Jesus had a deep relationship with the Bible, and he saw it as a pointer to him, a story to prepare the world for what he had come to do.

we have to be careful we aren’t taking Bible verses and applying a promise to us that God didn’t make to us.

When we look at slavery in the context of the ancient world, we need to deprogram our normal definition and redefine it according to what it meant in that world.

every Bible verse is written in a context, in a specific time period and for a specific purpose.

We can use all our time asking the Bible our scientific questions about creation, all the while missing the beauty of what God was communicating to the original recipients.

we don’t have to force answers from Bible verses that weren’t written to address the questions we are asking.

“Founders of other religions claim they are a prophet to help you find God. Jesus came to say, ‘I am God come to find you.’ ”

The Holy Spirit dwells within both men and women and empowers both to serve in the mission of the church.