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Q.
Who gets to decide which laws in the Bible are irrefutable?
Suggested Additional Sources for Reading
- A. J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow
the Bible as Literally as Possible (Simon & Schuster, 2008). - C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves (Harcourt Brace, 1960).
- Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
(Crossroad, 2002).
Suggested Questions for Further Discussion/Thought
- Is it possible to obey all the rules of the Bible? Why or why not?
- How do we know we are living a love-fi lled life?
- In your own experience with religious communities, what kind of
authority is there to decide how the Bible should be interpreted and
applied to people’s lives? - Can it be healthy to have different opinions in the church about how to
live according to the Bible? What are some of the challenges of this? - What examples can you think of, in recent years, where unchallenged
religious authority had negative consequences? - What are some advantages of vesting authority in individuals or groups?