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Collins, John · 2019
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What this book knows
The Bible has no single set of values; reading it honestly requires confronting its contradictions, historical contexts, and long history of misuse.
obedience-and-authority
There can be no reasonable doubt that slavery was condoned in the Bible. To say the Bible is a secure basis for doctrine on this issue is quite another matter.
WBV-RC-005The changeability of divine law in the Hebrew Bible has important implications for the authority of that law in later times.
WBV-RC-009faith-and-doubt
Love here is not a matter of feeling or emotion, but rather of loyalty and obedience: 'If you love me, you will keep my commandments.'
WBV-RC-021Abraham does not hesitate. In the end he is not required to kill the boy, but he is praised for his willingness.
WBV-RC-027religion-and-sex
Paul enters into a discourse on nature with no precedent in the Hebrew Bible, drawing on Greek philosophy to frame same-sex relations as contrary to nature.
WBV-RC-045Biblical values are boiled down to rejection of homosexuality and abortion, seldom accompanied by serious reflection on what the Bible actually says.
WBV-RC-002Illuminates
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