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A Review of a Review of Benefit of the Doubt
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Bible, Book Reviews, Greg Boyd, Historical Criticism, Inerrancy, Inspiration, Reviews
I’d like to offer a brief response to a curious on-line review of Benefit of the Doubt, published on thechristians.com. It’s titled, Which came first, Jesus or the Bible? A clever heretic draws a false division between God and Scripture. That “clever heretic” would be yours truly, and I allegedly…
Benefit of the Doubt
Topics: Faith & Doubt, Following Jesus
…these ideas should be disseminated as broadly as possible, which is why I wrote Benefit of the Doubt. By the way, I had to take a break from a book I’d already been working on for five years to write Benefit of the Doubt. I initially thought it would be…
The Benefit of the Doubt
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Tags: Faith, ReKnew
…If a person’s beliefs are false, doubting can only help them move closer to truth while curbing their willingness to violently defend them. And if a person’s beliefs are true, doubting will only serve to confirm and refine them. So either way, doubt is not our enemy, but a friend….
Benefit of the Doubt Is Here!
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Bible, Cruciform Theology, Doubt, Faith, Frank Viola, Greg Boyd, Interview, Jesus
Benefit of the Doubt is finally here and you should definitely get yourself a copy! Frank Viola interviewed Greg about the book recently and you can read it over on Frank’s blog Beyond Evangelical. In fact, Frank is so enthusiastic about the book that he added it to his Best…
Rethinking Our View of Faith
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Tags: Faith, ReKnew
…faith the centerpiece of his relationship with us, if this is what faith is all about? * The certainty-seeking, doubt-shunning model of faith reduces faith to mental gimmickry. As I flesh it out in Benefit of the Doubt, the biblical model of faith is all about character. It’s a beautiful…
Doubt as a Companion to Faith
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Tags: Doubt, Faith
…actually the territory. But our “map” of God is never the complete and fully truthful reflection of the territory. We can only be genuinely open to going deeper with God if we hold our maps in a flexible way. This kind of openness recognizes the benefit of doubt. This kind…
Benefit of the Doubt: Sneak Peek
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, Faith, ReKnew
We’ll be leaking little tidbits from Greg’s soon-to-be-released book Benefit of the Doubt from today until the book release. We’re really excited about the potential of this book to impact the lives of those who have limped along with the assumption that doubts and questions disqualify them as “faithful”. Here’s…
Christian Skepticism
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Christopher Hutton, Doubt, Skeptics
Beshef via Compfight Christopher Hutton wrote a piece that was featured on the Christ and Pop Culture blog called Skepticism for Christianity: Why Doubt it Our Best Friend. Greg’s upcoming book Benefit of the Doubt deals with the topic of doubt extensively and we thought this was an interesting voice…
9 Reasons Faith ≠ Certainty
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Tags: Apologetics, Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, Religious Idolatry
Topics: Faith & Doubt
…rightness of their beliefs. It thus creates a learning phobia that in turn leads many to remain immature in their capacity to objectively, calmly, and lovingly reflect on and debate their beliefs. Doubt-shunning faith tends to be hypocritical in that Christians see it as sinful for them to doubt but…
Another Sneak Peek from Benefit of the Doubt
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, Faith, Greg Boyd, ReKnew, Upcoming Conference
As we approach our ReKnew conference next month, we’ll be posting snippets of Greg’s book, Benefit of the Doubt. We hope you’ll be joining us. We extended the deadline for early bird registration. Get on that before Friday at midnight! What Is Your Actual God? In light of all this,…
Secret Doubt
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, Jess in Process, Jessica Kelley, ReKnew
J L via Compfight We don’t usually do this, but Jessica Kelley (Henry’s mom) over at Jess in Process wrote a piece about her struggles with doubt, and we got her permission to reprint it in its entirety. She perfectly represents the basic premise of Greg’s upcoming book Benefit of…
Rachel Held Evans Interviews Greg on Benefit of the Doubt
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Cruciform Theology, Doubt, Faith, Non-Violence, Rachel Held Evans
…things I share inBenefit of the Doubt about this incredibly important topic. The first is that I attempt to show that the revelation of God in Jesus Christ isn’t just one revelation among many others in Scripture. He is rather depicted as the supreme revelation that culminates and surpasses all…
Baby Universalism and Reasonable Infanticide
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Tags: Afterlife, Problem of Evil, Salvation
…heavenly benefit. But it seems to me that the baby killer must still be viewed as the occasion and means of the baby’s heavenly benefit. Most importantly, it seems we must accept that the baby killer is the means by which the baby’s heavenly benefit is made secure. The baby…
Is the Bible a Legal Textbook?
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Bible, Fundamentalism, Salvation
Olga via Compfight Too much theology treats the Bible as if it were legal textbook. In the following except from Benefit of the Doubt, Greg addresses the problems when we approach theology and Scripture this way. Incidentally, if you like these excerpts we’ve been posting from Benefit of the Doubt,…
What Will You Do With Your Doubt?
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, Richard Beck, Wendell Berry
…the cognitive dissonance, to invest in, cultivate, and renew our native religion. For those of you who are in the thick of your doubt, you might want to pick up a copy of Greg’s book, Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty. Image by Davi Ozolin via Compfight…
When Jesus Questioned the Father
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Tags: Doubt, Faith, Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus
Topics: Faith & Doubt
…which would imply that Jesus sinned at this crucial moment. This is impossible, however, for it conflicts with both Scripture and the uniform conviction of the historic orthodox church. Faith and doubt are not antithetical. A perfect faith need not be one that is free of doubt. What a perfect…
Faith or Magic?
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Tags: Covenant, Doubt, Faith, healing, Homosexuality, Magic, Salvation, Sin
…of his unending love, and about learning how to live in the power of the Spirit as you increasingly reflect his love and his will “on earth as it is in heaven.” —Adapted from Benefit of the Doubt, pages 38-40, 120-121 Photo credit: loungerie via Visual Hunt / CC BY-NC-SA…
Part 9 (of 15): Peterson on White Privilege
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson, Racial Reconciliation, Reconciliation, White Privilege
…not “Majority Privilege” I don’t doubt that it’s generally true (though unfortunate) that the people who build a culture and establish the social hierarchies of that culture generally enjoy more benefits than those who are not part of the dominant culture (though, I will argue in a later post that…
Faith, Doubt and Agnosticism
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Tags: Agnosticism, Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith
Hartwig HKD via Compfight Greg was recently interviewed by Premier Radio in the UK for the program Unbelievable? along with Andrew Whyte (an agnostic) on the topic of faith and doubt. They discuss their personal journeys of doubt and how this led them on vastly different paths. You can find…
Is There Room for Doubt in Faith?
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Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, Jacob, Q&A, Wrestling with God
Topics: Faith & Doubt
Image by Pensiero via Flickr Many Christians today assume that faith is the antithesis of doubt. In this view, a person’s faith is thought to be strong to the extent that they don’t question their beliefs or struggle with God in whom they believe. As widespread as this view is,…