“If there is an infinite chasm between us and God, and if the chasm is to be crossed, it will have to be crossed from His side to ours . . . If the chasm is to be crossed, then God must cross it. He must reveal Himself” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 10).
When Salvation Opens Out
“Humility is a low door into a high Heaven. Narrow is the pass, broad is the mountain meadow” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 7).
Narrow, Not Pinched
“The truth is narrow, but the truth is never sectarian, or to be thought of as the cheat codes for a mystery religion . . . The way is narrow, Jesus taught, but that narrow pass opens out into a glorious mountain valley, lush and green, and teeming with game. We do not embrace that …
To Be Imitated
“Some things are shallow because they are broad, like rain water on the parking lot. Other things are deep because they are narrow, like the sliver of a crevasse that you can jump across at the top. But some things are deep because they are broad, like the roots of the Rocky Mountains” (Mere Fundamentalism, …
And Og, King of Bashan . . .
“Everything in Scripture is equally true, but not everything is equally important. The fact that Jesus rose from the dead is more important than the fact that He went to Capernaum—although both are equally true” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 3).
Words Everywhere
“The Scriptures are given to us in words, and interpretations of those words arrive packaged in words. If God can’t make Himself clear to me in the book that He wrote, how can I expect that fallible (or purportedly infallible) humans can do so . . . More about this anon, as I would have …
The Acid Test
“The only RCs and EOs worth teaming up with in any venture are the ones who don’t mind a Protestant being one” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 179).
As the Body Without the Spirit is Dead . . .
“To take the elements of bread and wine, and separate them from the sacramental action, the sacramental participles, is a mistake of the first order. It is to remove the animated thing from the animating principle, thereby killing it, and then worshiping it as though it were alive by itself” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 175).
In the Participles
“But Jesus did not tell us to watch and adore. He told us to take and eat, take and drink. And in our obedience, Christ is with us. Christ inhabits the obedience, and the bread and wine are not obedient. Christ is in the participles, in the eating, and in the drinking” (Papa Don’t Pope, …
Not Monolithic
“When you actually start reading in the early church fathers, one of the first things you discover is that they are all over the map, just like us” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 170).