Imagine that -- religious people quoting the Bible to defend actions that were the exact opposite of the intent and purpose of those very same scriptures! It's possible, then, to be quoting the Bible out of the conviction that you're defending God's way when in fact you're in that exact moment working against how God wants to continue drawing and pulling and calling humanity forward. And then, to put a finer point on it, it's possible to take something that was a step forward at one point and still be clinging to it later on in the story, to the point where it becomes a step backward.
-- Rob Bell, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, p. 161
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