Brennan Manning and His Views on the Bible/Cross
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The
Biblical God Does Not Exist
Says Brennan Manning
In
Discipleship Journal Issue 100 1997 page 78 in an
interview, Brennan Manning recommends William Shannon's
book, Silence on Fire and Thomas Keating's book
on centering prayer, Open Mind, Open Heart. In Silence
on Fire, 'Shannon blasts the Christian, Biblical
God. Page 109, 110 "This is a typical patriarchal
notion of God. He is the God of Noah who sees people
deep in sin, repents that He made them and resolves
to destroy them. He is the God of the desert who
sends snakes to bite His people because they murmured
against Him. He is the God of David who practically
decimates a people ... He
is the God who exacts the last drop of blood from
His Son, so
that His just anger, evoked by sin, may be appeased.
This God whose moods alternate between graciousness
and fierce anger. This
God does not exist." Please note
Manning uses this quote nearly word for word in
his book Above All [pg. 58](foreword
by Michael W. Smith)
Manning's View of the Bible
"I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself. In a word—bibliolatry. God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants."—Brennan Manning, Signature of Jesus, pp. 188-189
