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1 Marcus Borg explains this idea extremely well in his book The Heart of Christianity (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003).
2 John 14:9.
3 I first came across the phrase “lined up” in Cornelius Plantinga’s book Engaging God’s World (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002).
4 John 1:14.
5 This fact, of course, doesn’t make the doctrine any less true. It’s been true all along; people just “recently” discovered it.
6 Deuteronomy 4:12; see also verse 15.
7 Job 11:7. God also says in Isaiah 55:8, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.” It is written like this in the Psalms: “His understanding has no limit” (147:5).
8 Exodus 3:14.
9 Exodus 33:23.
10 It’s interesting that we measure days by the sun and moon, which weren’t created until day four.
11 Matthew 19:28; Acts 3:21; Colossians 1:20.
12 See Matthew 25:41.
13 Luke 14:16–24.
14 David Rylaarsdam from Calvin Theological Seminary makes a great point about questioning God: In Job 42:7, God indicates that he is angry with the questions of Job’s three friends, which is paralleled in the gospels when the religious leaders try to trap Jesus with their questions. But Job’s friends and the Pharisees had a smug sense of arrival about their theology. The psalmists, by contrast, demonstrate humility about their understanding of God, and their questions arise out of the context of faith (even if it is weak faith mixed with much doubt). So the psalmists are able to ask even tougher questions of God than the Pharisees: “My God, my God, you said you would not forget your children, and now you’re hiding your face from me. I don’t get it! Where are you? I’m getting hammered here. Why?”
15 Genesis 18.
16 Exodus 3–4.
17 Take a look at I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology by Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited by Samuel Dresner (New York: Crossroad Classic, 1983).
18 Robert Farrar Capon deals with this in his book The Fingerprints of God (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000). Go out and buy all of his books and read them immediately.
19 If you really want to know, this is from M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense (1999).
20 1 John 4:8, my emphasis.
21 This is quoted from Entertainment Weekly (6 February 2004).
22 I heard Dwight Pryor say this several years ago. Dwight is about as close as you can get to a Christian rabbi, and he has deeply influenced me. Check out his teachings at www.jcstudies.com.
23 David Rylaarsdam provided me with this insight.
24 Read everything John Piper has ever written, beginning with The Dangerous Duty of Delight (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2001).
25 Psalm 37:4.
26 Matthew 7:13–14.
27 Philippians 4:7.
MOVEMENT TWO: YOKE
1 Joshua 6.
2 2 Corinthians 11:23.
3 1 Corinthians 7:12.
4 1 Corinthians 7:4.
5 Leviticus 19:18.
6 Exodus 20:8.
7 Matthew 11:30.
8 Matthew 5:17.
9 My version of Jesus’s words in Matthew 5.
10 Matthew 3:11.
11 Matthew 3:17.
12 Matthew 3.
13 Luke 20:2–3, my paraphrase.
14 Matthew 5:21–22, 27–28, 31–32, 33–34, 38–39, 43–44.
15 See Anchor Bible Dictionary 1.743–45 (New York: Doubleday, 1992) and Walter Bauer et al. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 222.
Also, according to Josephus, “The power of binding and loosing was always claimed by the Pharisees. Under Queen Alexandra, the Pharisees became the administrators of all public affairs so as to be empowered to banish and readmit whom they pleased, as well as to loose and to bind” (Wars of the Jews, 1.5.2 in The Complete Works of Josephus, trans. by William Whiston [Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1960]).
To read more about binding and loosing, go to the Jerusalem Perspective website: www.jerusalemperspective.com.
16 Matthew 16:19; see also 18:18.
17 Acts 15:28–29.
18 Matthew 18:20.
19 I heard Anne Lamott say this at an event we were both speaking at.
20 Romans 16:16; 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:26.
21 1 Corinthians 11:3–16.
22 1 Corinthians 16:22.
23 Matthew 19:21.
24 1 Timothy 2:8.
25 Ephesians 6:5.
26 Acts 15:28.
27 Genesis 3.
28 “There are seventy faces/facets to the Torah” (Numbers Rabbah 13:15).
29 John 11:39.
30 Once again, Marcus Borg does a great job of explaining this idea in The Heart of Christianity (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003).
31 The best thing I have ever read about the Bible is a transcript of a lecture given by the British scholar N. T. Wright called “How Can the Bible Be Authoritative?” published in Vox Evangelica 21 (April 1991): 7–32.
32 The tractate in the Mishnah, “Avot,” is very helpful in understanding what the debates were and what was forbidden and what was permitted in Jesus’s day.
33 And the answer is . . . Shammai. Which is interesting, because Jesus usually sides with Hillel.
34 For more on Artemis and her role in the city of Ephesus, check out Roland H. Worth Jr.’s The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Greco-Asian Culture (New York: Paulist Press, 1999).
35 Again, read the transcript by N. T. Wright, “How Can the Bible Be Authoritative?”
36 2 Peter 3:16.
37 I understand the need to ground all that we do and say in the Bible, which is my life’s work. It is the belief that creeps in sometimes that this book dropped out of the sky that is dangerous. The Bible has come to us out of actual communities of people, journeying in real time and space. Guided by a real Spirit.
38 As Stanley Gundry put it so well: The formation of the canon was a long, dynamic, and fluid process and one that was not ever settled once and for all by any one body of individuals voting on it and settling it for future generations of Christians (except that for Roman Catholics it was officially settled at the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century, though even many Roman Catholics challenge its decisions!). Protestants accept the narrower Hebrew canon accepted by the Jews at the time of Christ (the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings). Books aspiring to be accepted as the uniquely Christian scriptures are to be subjected to the tests of authenticity and apostolicity. By contrast, the Roman Catholic tradition is that since the church wrote the Bible, the church also has the authority to determine which books belong in the Bible, and only the church can give an authoritative interpretation of the Bible.
The Protestant position has been that in general the people of God have come to accept certain books as God’s Word because through the centuries God’s children have heard the voice of their Father speaking in these books. So when we point to early lists of the canonical books, whether such lists come from individuals or church councils, these lists are not considered authoritative decisions binding on us today but only as evidence that a loose consensus was developing through time among the people of God.
Given this reality, it is not surprising that while there is general agreement on what belongs in the canon, there is no uniform agreement.
Remember, it’s living and active.
MOVEMENT THREE: TRUE
1 Isaiah 6:3.
2 Psalm 24:1.
3 Psalm 139:7.
4 Genesis 28:16.
5 Romans 2:14.
6 Titus 1:12–13.
7 Acts 17:28.
8 1 Corinthians 3:21, 23.
9 Colossians 1:17.
10 John 14:6.
11 Colossians 2:17.
12 Colossians 3:17.
13 1 Timothy 4:4.
14 Psalm 24:1.
15 1 Peter 5:8.
16 1 Thessalonians 5:21.
17 Acts 14:17.
18 Matthew 26:10 and Mark 14:6.
19 At that point I was thinking that she could start a recovery group for witches. It could be called “WA” for Witches Anonymous.
20 Exodus 3:5.
MOVEMENT FOUR: TASSELS
1 Numbers 15:38–40.
2 David cuts off the corner of Saul’s “garment” in the back of a cave (1 Sam. 24:4), and Jesus talks about going into your “prayer closet,” which meant folding your prayer shawl over your head and arms (Matt. 6:6).
3 Malachi 4:2 NIV (Colorado Springs: International Bible Society, 1978, 1984).
4 Luke 8:43–48.
5 The first time I heard Dwight Pryor address this, he made two columns and explained the difference between a legal transaction understanding and a holistic understanding and said that we need to embrace both. I thought I was going to fall out of my chair. He is the one who uses the phrase “the cross for us and the cross in us.” He sponsors seminars he calls “Haverim” (from the Hebrew word for “friends”) at which he teaches for a week. Every day, all day he teaches, and it is stunning. Check his website www.jcstudies.com for where he will be teaching next.
6 John 5:24.
7 Ephesians 1:10.
8 For a masterful depiction of the mystery behind the mystery, read Susan Howatch. I recommend starting with Glittering Images (New York: Knopf, 1987), the first of her Starbridge novels. You will get sucked in and have to read her next eight novels.
9 Parker Palmer’s book Let Your Life Speak (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999) was my introduction to this great man.
10 Mark 8:36.
MOVEMENT FIVE: DUST
1 Bava Batra 21a.
2 Josephus, Against Apion 1:60.
3 The person who has opened me up to the first century world of Jesus more than anyone is Ray Vander Laan. He is a teacher, scholar, hiker of Israel—an amazing man. His teachings are available at www.followtherabbi.com, an exhaustive resource for those interested in Jesus’s world. The levels of education and the walking on water and the Caesarea sections in this movement were insights sparked by things I’ve heard Ray say. Much credit goes to the man from Hamilton.
4 Luke 2:46–47.
5 See John 15:15.
6 For a fascinating glimpse into what this looked like, read As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg (New York: Behrman, 1996), a novel about rabbis and disciples.
7 Matthew 4:18–22.
8 Google “Caesarea Philippi” and you will see what I mean.
9 John 15:16.
10 Matthew 17:14–20.
11 Matthew 28:19.
MOVEMENT SIX: NEW
1 Luke 11:46.
2 Matthew 23:13.
3 James 3:2.
4 Romans 3:23.
5 John 3:3.
6 Colossians 3:3.
7 Colossians 3:1.
8 Colossians 3:7; see also Ephesians 4:20–24.
9 2 Corinthians 5:17.
10 Hebrews 2:10; 5:9.
11 Colossians 3:12.
12 Philippians 3:16.
13 Romans 8:1.
14 John 17:21.
15 Romans 6:11.
16 John 5:24.
17 You must read The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998).
18 I heard Stuart Briscoe say this to a group of people in Milwuakee in 1997.
19 “Sin management” is a term Dallas Willard deals with extensively in the second chapter of his book The Divine Conspiracy, which everybody should have read by now.
20 Luke 15:11–31.
21 Romans 5:8.
22 Revelation 5:9.
23 John 12:32.
24 See Colossians 1:20.
25 Matthew 25:31–46.
26 Genesis 3:8–9.
27 Exodus 25.
28 John 1:14 in The Message (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 1993).
29 1 Corinthians 6:19; Ephesians 2:21–22.
30 Revelation 21–22.
31 Matthew 4:17.
32 Romans 8:37–39.
MOVEMENT SEVEN: GOOD
1 John 20:15.
2 Take, for example, the genealogy that begins the book of Matthew. It appears to be a list of people who did a lot of begetting. But there’s something else going on here. The greatest king of the Jews was David. In Hebrew, that’s spelled DVD. D is the fourth letter in the Hebrew alphabet, so it has the numerical value of 4. V is the sixth letter, so it has the value of 6. DVD is therefore 4 + 6 + 4, which gives the name David the number value of 14. Matthew groups the names in his genealogy in groups of . . . 14. So a Jew reading the introduction to his book, which is telling something about Jesus’s family, would read king, king, king, king, king. Matthew has an agenda here. He wants you to see who he thinks Jesus is.
3 Romans 5:12.
4 Acts 2:24.
5 For a mind-blowing introduction to emergence theory and divine creativity, set aside three months and read Ken Wilber’s A Brief History of Everything (Boston: Shambhala, 2001).
6 A writer who has helped me in understanding this difference between good and perfect, and more important, between Greek and Hebrew thought, is Thorleif Boman. His book Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek (New York: Norton, 2002) has been very helpful. Brian McLaren also writes about this in The Story We Find Ourselves In (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003). I love his explanation of the Genesis account of creation. Or should I say Neo’s?
7 See Cornelius Plantinga’s book Engaging God’s World (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002).
8 Romans 8:22.
9 Isaiah 66.
10 Matthew 19:28.
11 Acts 3:21.
12 Colossians 1:19–20.
13 1 Corinthians 15:20.
14 Christ and the Caesars by Ethelbert Stauffer (London: SCM, 1952) is the best book I have come across on Jesus and the Roman Empire. Stunning piece of work. I’d also recommend Richard Horsley’s Jesus and Empire (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003).
15 Acts 4.
16 It’s interesting that the word church was originally used by Christians as an intentionally political statement about who rules the world.
17 Acts 4:12.
18 Galatians 3:28.
19 Thomas Cahill talks about this fact in The Desire of the Everlasting Hills (New York: Anchor, 2001). This is one of the best books I’ve read about the early church.
20 Acts 4:34.
21 1 Corinthians 15.
22 For an example of this, find a book on Greek mythology and look up Dionysus, also called Bacchus.
23 The entire book of Acts.
24 At first he is called Abram, but then God changes his name to Abraham. See Genesis 17:5.
25 Luke 22:27.
26 John 13 is a powerful example of this.
27 Jesus is actually giving commentary on Torah in his loving your neighbor command, specifically Leviticus 19.
28 Genesis 1:26–27.
29 See James 2:1–13.
30 Matthew 7:14.
31 Revelation 21–22.
32 Luke 15; John 2 and 14.
