John Shelby Spong: Quotes about the truth

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“True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.”

John Shelby Spong

"Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions," weekly mailing, 2007-SEP-05, as reported on Religious Tolerance.org http://www.religioustolerance.org/reltrue.htm

God , Truth , Religion

“If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that view of resurrection is not believable, and if that is all there is, then Christianity, which depends upon the truth and authenticity of Jesus' resurrection, also is not believable.”

John Shelby Spong

Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality? (1994), p. 238

Truth , Dependency

“All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth.”

John Shelby Spong

Interview http://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/christianity/2005/05/i-am-a-mystic.aspx?p=2 with Deborah Caldwell for Beliefnet.com (May 2005)

Truth , Religion

“Above all, words must be recognized as symbolic pointers to truth, not objective containers of truth.”

John Shelby Spong

Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality? (1994), p. 37

Truth