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The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Christian
Orthodox
Diverse
Extremely
Historical
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Faith

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I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
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Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.
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Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.
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When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.
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If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
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The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn't like what I do or doesn't understand it, then it wasn't for them.
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Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.
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There are moments when we have to return to our roots.
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Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.
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I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.
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To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.
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One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.
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To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.
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The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.
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For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one.
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If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.
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The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.
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The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.
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God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
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