Religion is about top-down thinking. The 2007 publication, “Putting Jesus in his Place”, written by Robert M. Bowman Jr. and J. Ed Komoszewski, clearly illustrates this way of quoting scripture. The book is a claimed defense of the God on the cross theology. It is not. The book is an embarrassment to creditable biblical scholarship because it chooses only those sympathetic biblical understandings. Frankly, in their read, there is no scripture that cannot be twisted and any opposing understandings are blatantly ignored.
This book
was written to counter the historical record of the four centuries following the
death of Jesus. Bart D. Edmans is the
devil incarnate just because he told us the story of these centuries and how
the doctrinal God on the cross theology came to be unassailable. Believers owe him a debt of gratitude despite
the fact that he is wrong to assume that this history disavows the existence or
relevancy of God altogether.
From their assumption
the authors present a most one-sided case whose only authority is the Bible
used as a proof text. As has been
mentioned somewhere else, as in this blog, this is biblical abuse. If taken at face value, God as the trinity of persons, is no longer a monotheism. The authors are not scholars, they are mass
market profiteers whose market is we ill-informed church goers or former church
goers.
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
