Greg Boyd on the Bible and Certainty – An Interview with Jonathan Merritt

Pastor Gregory Boyd (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) made a name for himself years ago when he penned the best-selling Gold Medallion Award-winner Letters from a Skeptic, a collection of letters with his agnostic father that address tough questions non-Christians people have about the faith. But Boyd quickly became a lightning rod of controversy when he became a proponent of “open theism”, a view claiming that the future is not pre-determined and therefore God knows the future as possibilities and not fact (for more, see his book God of the Possible).

In his newest book, Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty, Boyd has returned to his roots in a way by urging people to wrestle with the big questions of faith. He claims that modern Christians have come to accept a false belief that faith is rooted in certainty. He says that faith is instead being willing to commit to living a certain way despite not being certain. Here, we discuss the benefit of embracing doubt and why he believes we need even to question God.

Why Doubters and Non-Doubters Share a Common Faith | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction

Why Doubters and Non-Doubters Share a Common Faith | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction.

Mark Galli about faith & doubt. A text worth reading.

Peter Enns on the Benefits of Doubt for the Life of Faith

Source of picture, HERE.

My friend Ady Popa pointed me today to a very interesting article on faith and doubt by Peter Enns, a Protestant professor who studied theology at Harvard. Please find below a few quotes, to wet your appetite.

Warning: this is not for the faint hearted or the naive who are still entertaining the illusions of modernity.

Five Feet Above the Contradiction – A Sermon

 

Here is a fragment from my son’s latest sermon. I hope this will motivate you to read the entire text of the sermon on his blog.

If we take a closer look at most of our churches, we will probably notice that we are missing a significant generational chunk. On average we are missing people between the age of 20 and 45, give or take a few years up or down. That is a significant generational gap. It should make us wonder why this is happening. Everyone has theories around that, and obviously I have my own. I’m not going to bore you with my theory, because we could be here all day.