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John Crowder ☩

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I resolved to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified … юродъ

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Religious myth buster #3 God does not tolerate you thanks to Jesus' legal payoff. God is addicted to you, which is why Jesus came to rescue you from death. #religiousmyths

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Religious myth buster #4 There is no third temple to be built. Jesus is the Temple not made by hands, and we are His dwelling. #religiousmyths

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Religious myth buster #5 Despite what more than 70 percent of Evangelicals believe (according to actual polls 😕), Holy Spirit is not a divine force. Holy Spirit is a Person: the Lord and Giver of Life. #religiousmyths

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Religious myth buster #6 The “rapture” is baloney promulgated by American folk religion and marketing culture. A fanciful invention of late modernism (mid-1800s), it was never a Christian eschatology nor believed by a single figure in church history. #religiousmyths

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Religious myth buster #7 No matter how you slice it, Jesus came to subvert human violence, not inflict it. Jesus is not a warmonger. Utterly disinterested about your politics or excuses, He has no covenant with America but with humanity. Jesus levies no death, drops no bombs,

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Religious myth buster #11 Shepherds do not “break the leg” of a sheep to keep it from wandering. Complete lunacy. #religiousmyths

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Religious myth buster #12 God doesn't torture people forever. Eternal conscious torment is a perverse blasphemy against God. It is warped, illogical, psychotic, unChristlike and unbiblical (despite how you were taught to read that English commentary you call the “Bible”).

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Religious myth buster #13 The Gospel is not a legal transaction. Not a contract but a covenant. Jesus was not paying off the Father’s wrath in an invisible courtroom in the sky, rather He was enacting the Father’s own self-giving love to rescue us from sin and death.

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Religious myth buster #18 Jesus is not Republican or Democrat. The American Constitution is not Holy Scripture. Jesus does not have a U.S. social security card, birth certificate or voting ID. #religiousmyths

Religious myth buster #18
Jesus is not Republican or Democrat. The American Constitution is not Holy Scripture. Jesus does not have a U.S. social security card, birth certificate or voting ID.
#religiousmyths
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Religious myth buster #19 You aren’t saved by your faith. You’re saved by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. The πίστις χριστοῦ (pistis Christou) language of the New Testament is not “faith in Christ,” but the “faith of Christ.” #religiousmyths

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Religious myth buster #21 The Bible is not the Logos. Jesus is the Logos. Scripture is inspired, but only in the sense in which it testifies of Jesus Christ. Otherwise it is words out of context. #religiousmyths

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Religious myth buster #22 God’s justice is restorative, not retributive. The “justice” of scripture is not based on Roman law or the American judicial system. Justice, justification, justify, etc. (the δικαιόω word group) is about deliverance, rescue, exodus, setting things back