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Three assertions are made by Fred Wright:
We are born with biases about God
Those biases shape our character
Everyone automatically has an opinion whether they know it or not
He offers the actions of one set of historical people as proof. He appeals to authority by quoting the Desire of Ages by Ellen G White. While technically correct, some did reject Jesus because of unbelief and hatred of his character; he misses a wider principle.
In Fred Wright’s book Behold Your God at the first chapter I was saddened to see that he did not magnify the truth about little children being of the kingdom of God and instead framed them as strangers to their Father in Heaven. There is no clear explanation for the cause of his opinion about little children, either.
”All of us were born predisposed to possess a false concept of God” - F.W.
Jesus was clear that little children are “of the kingdom” and that “their angels do always behold the face of the father” - If you asked who did they see that face in, I would reply the children they care for. Because Jesus himself said “if you have seen me you have seen the father” in we are made in His image, as Jesus was, and as little children are from birth! “For of such are the kingdom of God.”
We are born with biases about God
Those biases shape our character
Everyone automatically has an opinion whether they know it or not
He offers the actions of one set of historical people as proof. He appeals to authority by quoting the Desire of Ages by Ellen G White. While technically correct, some did reject Jesus because of unbelief and hatred of his character; he misses a wider principle.
In Fred Wright’s book Behold Your God at the first chapter I was saddened to see that he did not magnify the truth about little children being of the kingdom of God and instead framed them as strangers to their Father in Heaven. There is no clear explanation for the cause of his opinion about little children, either.
”All of us were born predisposed to possess a false concept of God” - F.W.
Jesus was clear that little children are “of the kingdom” and that “their angels do always behold the face of the father” - If you asked who did they see that face in, I would reply the children they care for. Because Jesus himself said “if you have seen me you have seen the father” in we are made in His image, as Jesus was, and as little children are from birth! “For of such are the kingdom of God.”
Published 11th Mar 2023
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11th Mar 2023 6:26pm
Tried to look for him in wikipedia. Is it this one, who is also a theologian (however the article does not list the book you mention):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wright_(historian)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wright_(historian)
11th Mar 2023 8:43pm
Thanks for asking!
Turns out that’s another Fred Wright!
Here’s the author I speak of: https://characterofgod.org/fred-wright/
Turns out that’s another Fred Wright!
Here’s the author I speak of: https://characterofgod.org/fred-wright/
12th Mar 2023 7:12am
I am glad the chap I asked you about is NOT him. Evangelicals who seek to build bridges between Christians and Jews are those I most warm to.
12th Mar 2023 2:35pm
Ditto. I married a Jew who found out his mother was adopted. No one in her family rejected her for being “goy” - she was Jewish to them, period.
He found THAT out at 40. I married him when he was 34 thinking it didn’t matter if he was Jewish anymore than it mattered if he had green eyes. (Cool history, though.)
Off topic - We’re expecting our 12th!
He found THAT out at 40. I married him when he was 34 thinking it didn’t matter if he was Jewish anymore than it mattered if he had green eyes. (Cool history, though.)
Off topic - We’re expecting our 12th!
Congratulations - seems like you're producing your own twelve tribes!
My own pastor (in England) has a sister living in Texas who has become friends with me on facebook, who is in the position of being married to a still practising Jew.
My own pastor (in England) has a sister living in Texas who has become friends with me on facebook, who is in the position of being married to a still practising Jew.
12th Mar 2023 2:23am
