“The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that testimony which, I believe, God bears in every human heart, however dull, to those great truths which the Bible reveals. This, and not logic, is the way to grow in religious knowledge, to know that the truths of religion are not shadows, but deep realities.” KnowsWayShouldBelieveHumansHeartRealitySpiritualI BelieveGrowsReligiousConditionsReadyBearsBibleShadowLogicEarsDullBelieve In GodHuman HeartTestimony Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations
“What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?” IfsWayStillsRealChristianFatherJesusBitsReligiousDoubtBirthTomorrowProveShadowProofAppealsWhat IfFollowersCultVirginsDnaTombsWay To LiveLarrySampleVirgin BirthBiological FathersReligious Cults Author:Rob Bell
“Religion has been a curse on the world and humanity will never know freedom until this curse has been exorcised. It is the curse of ignorance, which has cast its dark shadow over thousands of years of human suppression.” KnowsWorldYearsHumansHas BeensReligionHumanityReligiousDarkIgnoranceShadowCastsCurseSuppression Author:David Icke