What does the image of God look like when we begin afresh from Jesus?
In Sharon Baker, Razing Hell: Rethinking Everything You've Been Taught About God's Wrath and Judgment, that question is asked. Here's how she puts it: "And as we we construct an alternate view of hell and read the Bible through one specific lens [the Jesus Lens], we will choose to pay more attention to verses that more consistently harmonize with the life and teachings of Jesus" (76).
We all pick and choose, she says, and I agree with her. The question is "how do we learn to pick and choose so that we read the Bible/history the way the Bible writers/persons read?"
How do we avoid being arbitrary in this conscious "picking and choosing"? What are the alternatives?
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