Tony Woodlief
Tony and his wife live in Wichita, Kansas, where he works as a writer and as a management consultant. Tony is regular columnist for WORLD and the Wall Street Journal and he is also the author of "Raising Wild Boys Into Men: A Modern Dad's Survival Guide." Visit his website, Sand in the Gears and his blog at www.tonywoodlief.com
More Bible Creepiness
- By Tony Woodlief
- Published 12/5/2009
My friend Jon D. points me to a Bible reconstruction initiative that makes the American Patriot’s Bible look feckless in comparison: the Conservative Bible Project, a group of amateur theologians led by Phyllis Schlafly’s son, who aim to tease out the hardcore, red-state Yahweh from the loosey-goosey Father who goes around loving and forgiving people. Did Jesus really ask the Father to forgive his persecutors, these people ask, or is that just another distortion from the Vast Left-Wing Hippy-Homo-Commie Conspiracy?
It’s funny how from the beginning, the people who claim to love God most zealously are the ones who get most upset about His loving unsavory types. I think rather than worrying over whether the sins of others will be forgiven, and over who is in and who is out of the Salvation Club, we ought to think more on the state of our own sorry souls, and meditate especially on the promise that the forgiveness we receive will be measured out according to the forgiveness we have offered others.
And so in that spirit, may God have mercy on these people who take it upon themselves to stand outside the one holy catholic and apostolic Church and rewrite the content and meaning of Holy Scriptures.
It’s funny how from the beginning, the people who claim to love God most zealously are the ones who get most upset about His loving unsavory types. I think rather than worrying over whether the sins of others will be forgiven, and over who is in and who is out of the Salvation Club, we ought to think more on the state of our own sorry souls, and meditate especially on the promise that the forgiveness we receive will be measured out according to the forgiveness we have offered others.
And so in that spirit, may God have mercy on these people who take it upon themselves to stand outside the one holy catholic and apostolic Church and rewrite the content and meaning of Holy Scriptures.
