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In my understanding, any way of explaining the Trinity as three personalities or three parts of God is false. In Trinity theology, "person" does not mean what it means in any other context. It isn't saying what the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are. It's saying what they aren't. They are...

In my understanding, the Bible calls Jesus and the Holy Spirit "God," and yet there is a genuine interpersonal relationship between them. All of that needs to be fully embraced, without trying to explain it. How it's possible if there is only one God is impossible for anyone to understand or...

In my story, the ultimate reality in their scriptures is the one called "God" in the Bible, but the gods in their imaginations that they are worshiping and calling "God" or "Allah" or "Heaven" or "Dharma" or "Science" or "Lived Experience" are different. In my story, there are three in the...

I don't see clearly if you are thinking here only of people called to professional ministry. I think that we are all called to consecrate ourselves, not only as a duty but for our own benefit. I hadn't thought about gifts associated with a calling, but my first thought is that of course He would...

I've been thinking of the ground for living the best life we can as an appreciating, nurturing kind of love for all of nature including all people everywhere, seeing the best possibilities in ourselves, in other people, in society and in the world around us, and wanting to help bring them out. I...

I agree that there is only one God and only one way to get to Him. What do you know about map projections, for example like Mercator and equal-area?

I'm liking this more and more. I'm very sorry that I never saw this in you before.

All of the mainstream churches consider the Nicene Creed, and God as three persons, as part of their beliefs. That's what defines the mainstream. I don't know of any that explicitly teach that Jesus is God in any physical way. In fact, I see no indication that any of the Bishops at Nicaea...

Wow, I'm seeing more and more how you can call yourself a Hindu. You know the metaphors and use them as well as anyone who takes them literally, maybe even better.

Caught me red-handed! It's going too far to call that my understanding of the Bible. It's only that looking at the passages that I've seen used as reasons for calling Judaism "monotheistic," I don't see them saying that there is only one of Him. I only see them saying that there are no others...

From reading what Funk and some of the participants said about it.

I've wondered sometimes why you call yourself a Hindu. That helps answer the question. I'm thinking that maybe my philosophy of life could be summed up that way. But "worship God" can just be a different way of saying that, a different kind of metaphor. Later. Yes, I think that my philosophy...

Is there anywhere that you want to go with that? Where do you go from there, in your book?

Thank you. None of that says anything about how many of Him there are. All of the O.T. passages that people think of as monotheistic are not saying how many of Him there are. They are saying that all other gods are not real, and not to worship them. In my understanding it's vanity to think that...

Early in my life I thought about how I could avoid being trapped in a way of thinking like I saw other people doing, and that was one way that I thought of: spending time with people who disagree with me, trying to see what could be true in their ways of thinking.

I think that my way of thinking about God is very similar to yours, but in different words. The God that interests me is the God of Abraham in the Bible, and I think of him as being a collection of metaphors, thinking of us and the word around us as being created by someone. That is not to say...

I've been thinking that the ground of the kind of morality that helps bring out the best in people, in society and in the world around us is a kind of love for all of nature including all people everyone. That's actually true by definition, because the kind of love that I mean is the kind that...

I don't think there's any single answer to that question, because the words "religion" and "spirituality" have a wide range of meanings from one person to another. One example of what the question might mean is, do we need churches to benefit from the all the possibilities in the teachings of...

From my reading about this, it looks to me like Funk thought that the voice of liberal Christian scholarship was not being heard, and that it needed to be publicized more. The Jesus Seminar was not a research project, it was not based on any new findings or research. Its purpose was simply for...

I'm not exactly sure what I was trying to convey. Maybe that what's important is not to be a Christian, because Jesus doesn't call His disciples "Christians." What's important is to be His disciple. Other people called the disciples Christians, but now many and possibly most people called...