Top 26 Marcus J. Borg Quotes

#1. The heaven-and-hell framework has four central elements: the afterlife, sin and forgiveness, Jesus's dying for our sins, and believing.

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#2. Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.

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#3. Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.

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#4. Salvation Is More About This Life than an Afterlife

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#5. To see Paul positively does not mean endorsing everything he ever wrote.

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#6. The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things.

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#7. For Jesus, compassion was more than a quality of God and an individual virtue: it was a social paradigm, the core value for life in community. To put it boldly: compassion for Jesus was political.

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#8. Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

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#9. Being Christian doesn't mean being anti-American, but it does mean that Christian identity and loyalty matter more than national identity and loyalty. When there is a conflict, Jesus is Lord.

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#10. How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?

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#11. This vision of life is deeply centered in God, the sacred. So it was for Jesus. So it is in all of the enduring religions of the world. What makes Christianity Christian is centering in God as known in Jesus.

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#12. The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

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#13. Stories can be true without being literally and factually true.

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#14. More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted.

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#15. When I was a young college teacher in my mid-twenties, an older colleague delighted in characterizing post-Enlightenment theology as "flat-tire theology" - "All the pneuma has gone out of it.

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#16. But "having dominion over" meant something very different from what it has often been understood to mean. It refers to the relationship between shepherd and sheep.

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#17. In function, Jesus's aphorisms are very much like his parables - provocative and invitational forms of speech. They provoke thought, lead people to reconsider their taken-for-granted assumptions, and invite them to see life differently.

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#18. So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know.

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#19. When we read Paul, we are reading somebody else's mail - and unless we know the situation being addressed, his letters can be quite opaque ... It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs.

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#20. When somebody says to me, "I don't believe in God," my first response is, "Tell me about the God you don't believe in." Almost always, it's the God of supernatural theism.

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#21. The book of Proverbs makes the same point: Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him. (14.31)

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#22. How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.

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#23. A worldwide flood destroyed all life on earth about five thousand years ago requires denying an immense amount of generally accepted knowledge - from astronomy, physics, geology, paleontology, anthropology, archaeology, biology, cave paintings, and more.

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#24. And to belove God, to center in God, has an additional crucial meaning. To belove God means to love what God loves. What does God love? The answer is in one of the most familiar Bible verses, John 3.16: God so loved the world ...

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#25. By the time I began college, anxiety about hell had disappeared - not because I was confident that I was "saved," but because the whole package had become sufficiently uncertain that I didn't worry about it.

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#26. But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true.

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