First off, this episode is not an attempt to offend people of the christian faith, or to take away from the value and significance people may place in the death/resurrection of Jesus. In this episode we try to walk through some of the modern challenges of believing in the resurrection.

Here are some of the show notes:

John Shelby Spong: “I do admit that for Christians to enter this subject honestly is to invite great anxiety. It is to walk the razor’s edge, to run the risk of cutting the final cord still binding many to the faith of their mothers and fathers. But the price for refusing to enter this consideration is for me even higher. The inability to question reveals that one has no confidence that one’s belief system will survive such an inquiry. That is a tacit recognition that on unconscious levels, one’s faith has already died. If one seeks to protect God from truth or new insights, then God has surely already died.”

-order of the books of the bible. first gospel written 23 years after Jesus death
-frustration with the Judaism not coming on board
-parallels with Egyptian gods like Osiris
-Why was the resurrection significant? Who was it significant to? Who benefited from the resurrection?

SPONG TIME Debates with Rowan Williams:

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/13880.htm

Barth: “We are powerless; we are lost. Death is the supreme law of our life. We can say no more than that if there be salvation, it must be salvation from death; if there be a ‘Yes’, it must be such a ‘Yes’ as will dissolve this last and final ‘No’; if there be a way of escape, it must pass through this terrible barrier by which we are confronted.” -pg.167, Epistle to the Romans.

This episode is one hour and three minutes:

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