tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17886560.post5522582013301980527..comments2024-02-07T19:06:00.569-05:00Comments on Rick Ianniello: scorning what is holy ...rickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761115460598252675noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17886560.post-57387504130523930302011-03-26T06:37:11.635-04:002011-03-26T06:37:11.635-04:00The point is that this is more of the same. I saw ...The point is that this is more of the same. I saw "The God's are Angry" and had the same understanding. In all things relative to the atonement in that, some of this other writings, and in Love Wins, there's a dismissal in the sense that God's people were copying pagans or writing in a way pagans could understand.<br /><br />I think he errs.<br /><br />This one quote doesn&#rickihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08761115460598252675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17886560.post-34779952936931176942011-03-26T06:31:37.900-04:002011-03-26T06:31:37.900-04:00As is clear from this quote, Rob Bell hates dogs a...As is clear from this quote, Rob Bell hates dogs and babies, too!Bob Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06400471363764020869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17886560.post-60084218263515278512011-03-26T06:12:45.614-04:002011-03-26T06:12:45.614-04:00Geoff - 100% agree based on this paragraph alone. ...Geoff - 100% agree based on this paragraph alone. So perhaps this would have been better if it didn't say "as Bell does" implying this is proof and offered as more of a challenge to be cautious and aware.<br /><br />Like so much of Bell, it's more implication than statement so it's hard to comment well.<br /><br />Thanks.rickihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08761115460598252675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17886560.post-79060076835403879812011-03-26T02:29:18.775-04:002011-03-26T02:29:18.775-04:00There is nothing in the quote you've mentioned...There is nothing in the quote you've mentioned that in any way "strips the atonement of its substitutionary nature". Maybe the rest of his book does, I haven't read it. But because he's saying that the metaphor doesn't translate well to contemporary society, in the same way as the KJV doesn't translate well. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons to pick on Rob Geoffhttp://www.geoffreport.com/wp/noreply@blogger.com