Of but not in
Dissonant bible continues an interesting dissection of Rick Warren’s famous The Purpose-Driven Life. The question here is Warren’s continual depiction of heaven as our eventual destination and Earth as something temporary and to be done away with – in contrast to the biblical picture of heaven as everywhere that God is in charge and of Earth as something God will redeem and recreate in perfection.
Again and again Warren describes the end of this life as leaving earth behind. This is not your permanent home or final destination. You’re just passing through, just visiting earth…your homeland is in heaven.
And to ‘prove’ this, once more Warren uses distorted translations or paraphrases of carefully selected bible verses
The articles are especially interesting for the way in which they show, once again, how easy it is for people to misread the Bible by taking verses they like, reading them out of context (or in a preferred translation) and extrapolating from them in isolation from the actual thrust of the passage.
pax et bonum
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