I’m reading two books right now. “Not the Religious Type: Confessions of a Turncoat Atheist” by Dave Schmelzer and “Velvet Elvis” by Rob Bell (I had to put down the third one because two concurrent books is probably enough for me!)
There’s plenty of stuff in both books that is speaking to my heart and making me think. This chapter I was reading this morning (from Velvet Elvis) really rocked my mind. For example, the Rabbis in the time of Jesus had the authority to bind and loose, to interpret the Torah. This is the context of this saying of Jesus: “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
See: http://www.cresourcei.org/bindloose.htm
Quick correction of the subtitle of Dave Schmelzer’s book:
“Confessions of a Turncoat ATHEIST” (emphasis added).
“Confessions of a Turncoat Christian” would be quite a different book.
Thanks for the correction. Yes.. that would be a different book!