34 John Shelby Spong Quotes for You to Enjoy

John Shelby Spong

American Clergyman

Born: Jun 16, 1931

Bible Church God Life People You

Related authors: Billy Graham Charles R. Swindoll Henry Ward Beecher Jim Elliot Joel Osteen John C. Maxwell Norman Vincent Peale Thomas S. Monson

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church. John Shelby Spong

Bible Church Christian Jews Our Sacred Writings Hostility Toward Texts Forever Banished Justify Centuries Used Christian Church Christians Need

Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history. John Shelby Spong

I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24. John Shelby Spong

Age Youth Church Before Group Active Married Adolescent Student Priest Deacon Altar Infant Trained Ordained Confirmed Baptized University

I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally. John Shelby Spong

Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to God and allowing this source of love to flow through us. John Shelby Spong

Love God Dimension Possibilities Ourselves Restrict Through Allowing Boundaries New Opening Source Existence Represents Transcends Us Jesus Flow

In the first gospel, Mark, the risen Christ appears physically to no one, but by the time we come to the last gospel, John, Thomas is invited to feel the nail prints in Christ's hands and feet and the spear wound in his side. John Shelby Spong

Time Christ First Mark Side Thomas Wound John Risen Physically No-One Nail Feel Invited Feet Come Gospel Prints His Hands Spear Appears Last By The Time

Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all. John Shelby Spong

History Bible Witness Mark Claim Telling Crucifixion Perhaps Most Read Gospel Narrative Testimony Discover Accurate Against Found Based Earliest

John Shelby Spong Quotes

No more John Shelby Spong quotes