Especially leading young children astray.
Like the adults who take children to certain events:
A few years ago:
Posted on 05/07/2024 6:12:04 PM PDT by Morgana
A collective of Jesus-hating progressives has blown past its Kickstarter goal to bring their new illustrated storybook bible, God’s Stories as Told by God’s Children, to the masses, raising nearly $150k against a $60k goal and all but ensuring we’re about to get one more bible book fit for the burn barrel.
The new kid’s bible is spearheaded by the organization “The Bible for Normal People,” the ministry of Pete Enns and Jared Byas. Enns is the more notorious of the two. He jumped on the emergent church bandwagon just as it broke down and swiftly devolved into a puddle of liberal theology and inerrancy denial, making a name for himself with his book “The Sin of Certainty.
According to their website, their mission is to unironically “Bring the best in biblical scholarship to everyday people,” all the while revealing: “Our heart is for the normal person, so we are not elitist or exclusionary…we are inclusive of LGBTQ people, women, BIPOC, disabled people, and other diverse religious voices and backgrounds.”
Their Kickstarter page explains the purpose of the new kids bible:
“For the past twelve months, we have been working with biblical scholars, theologians, faith practitioners, and authors from all over the world to create a children’s storybook Bible with a difference. God’s Stories as told by God’s Children, integrates biblical scholarship with engaging storytelling, illuminating the stories behind the biblical texts in a way that embraces curiosity and conversation.”
Because in our survey of 10 of the most popular children’s storybook Bibles, we found:
8 out of 10 were written by men
9 out of 10 were written by a single author
10 out of 10 were infused with biblical literalism
8 out of 10 espoused a single atonement theory
Oh no! What horror. What is the remedy?
Which is where we come in.
God’s Stories as told by God’s Children, offers curious kids and their adults something different. Something better. A way of reading the Bible that:
honors its ancientness, its complexity, and its many voices,
encourages children to engage their hearts, souls, and minds,
and lays the foundations for a faith that grows and evolves as your child does.
Naturally, some of the bible’s contributors are eclectic to say the least:
In short, it’s gonna be a hot mess and every Christian should rightfully hate it.
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2nd Peter1.
When I see “activist” in the job title....that’s enough for me to toss them out.
Someone get a millstone
Clink on the link and see if you all know who they are. I have not a clue.
Peter Enns I recognize. Lost a position with Westminster Sem. Philadelphia. Looks like that was a good thing. Shane Clairborne was a big name back when the "emergent church" was a thing. I hadn't seen his name for a while.
The others, maybe I'll g00gle them tomorrow.
9 out of 10 were written by a single author
Does anyone else see a problem with these two statements being simultaneously true?
...and Revelation 22:18
Yes, and then toss them into the sea 🌊.
[espoused a single atonement theory]
Ultimately, it’s spirit of antichrist behind this. There’s your proof right there.
As you likely have already surmised.
Didn’t take very long to find out what was easily-guessed:
Peter Enns:
He’s a liar and an antichrist - twisting Scripture
people-with-pete-enns/387359703152198/
Jared Byas:
Also a liar twisting Scripture
https://twitter.com/jbyas/status/1141322986844237824
Does anyone else see a problem with these two statements being simultaneously true?
No.
The statement "8 out of 10 were written by men" could does not specify how many men were involved in the writing. It could mean that eight of the ten books were written by committees consisting entirely of men (or even by committees having at least one male member).
Likewise, the statement "9 out of 10 were written by a single author" could mean that a single individual is the sole author of nine of the books - or that nine of the books were written, not by committees, but rather by individual persons.
In short: The statements are ambiguous to begin with.
Regards,
“Peter Enns I recognize. Lost a position with Westminster Sem. Philadelphia. Looks like that was a good thing. Shane Clairborne was a big name back when the “emergent church” was a thing. I hadn’t seen his name for a while.”
Thanks for the info.
On the link are pictures and names of the authors who are contributing to this. Clink on the link and see if you all know who they are. I have not a clue
I looked the rest up. They are everything you would expect out of liberal protestantism, a century now past Machen's Christianity and Liberalism. Stereotypically so. Oh, yeah, and one of them's LDS.
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