Sam Cotten

The atheist Christopher Hitchens just published the book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. He recently debated Dinesh D’Souza, a fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In the debate Hitchens said that those of us who believe in the God of Christianity are “condemned to live in this posture of gratitude, permanent gratitude, to an unalterable dictatorship in whose installation we had no say.”

Bishop John Shelby Spong, retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark says in his recent book, Jesus for the Non-Religious, “a rescuing deity results in gratitude, never in expanded humanity. Constant gratitude, which the story of the cross seems to encourage, creates only weakness, childishness and dependency.“

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This is from Desiring God’s weblog. It is very interesting, and gives some insight into the modern charismatic movement, especially the Vineyard association’s role. Sam Storms is a good guy; he wrote this article.

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That is the question, isn’t it?

I came across these musings by Douglas Carson this week. His take is very close to mine, and I like what he says here.

Blessings,
Sam

ps I’ve made a few comments where I think he needs clarifying, my comments are in [brackets], and I’ve made more at the end. Continue Reading »