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The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

William P. Young

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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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William Young
William Paul Young
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It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
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Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.
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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.
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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.
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I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
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But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.
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I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.
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I don't see the Father pouring out his wrath on the Son. I see the human race pouring out their wrath on the Son. So I see the only hope for the entire cosmos is what the Son chooses to accept, crawling upon the instrument of our greatest wrath. He met us at the deepest, darkest place.
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Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
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I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.
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Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
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You are free to love without an agenda
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Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.
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I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.
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It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...
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Love is not the limitation love is the flying.
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You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.
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...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
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