The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
John Shelby SpongI've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.
John Shelby SpongThere's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.
John Shelby SpongTheism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is probably not revivable. If the religion of the future depends on keeping alive the definitions of theism, then the human phenomenon that we call religion will have come to an end. If Christianity depends on a theistic definition of God, then we must face the fact that we are watching this noble religious system enter the rigor mortis of its own death throes.
John Shelby Spong