“There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.” ChristianMaterialsBiblePressure Author:Walter Lang
“One reason there are so many unhappy Christians is they feel God should be doing them favors and heaping upon them material rewards and benefits, rather than working as a Carpenter to shape their lives back into His own image.” FeelsShouldReasonChristianMaterialsShapesBenefitsRewardsFavorsUnhappyCarpenter Author:Jamie Buckingham
“It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom.” PeopleWorldWayMayMadeImportantChristianSpiritSufferingJesusBeliefDifficultVisionClearCreationThis WorldMaterialsBehaviorGloryBasesTransformationFilledIntentionPatternsPersecutionNew LifeVesselMartyrdomMaterial WorldChristian Persecution Author:N. T. Wright
“The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?” IfsChildrenChristianCertainOrderNextQualityMoralWifeWrittenDoorsAtheismMaterialsDemandProgramJewPositive AtheismEndlessBunchDoctrineWhat IfYellowEstablishmentHelplessExposureConcealedRatingParadesZionistQuality Control Book:Real Frank Zappa Book Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.” NeedsGivingMightChristianOrderUnderstandingChristSawsAtheismMaterialsFindingsProfitPositive AtheismDoctrineEmploymentExplanationMysticismArtificialIntroducingPlatoEverlastingControversyPriesthoodEminence Book:Jefferson: Political Writings Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.” IfsLifeChristianLife IsDoubtInformationMaterialsDancingChristian LifeNo DoubtDaringBiblical Author:Eugene H. Peterson