God in the 21st Century | Bishop John Shelby Spong lecture at the University of Oregon 

im just discovering him...hes a Godsend

Odd. Bishop Spong was a self-avowed atheist.

um no he wasnt ... ive read his books..he believed deeply in God..he rejected the old school , traditional views of Jesus @@vaska1999

He was not a Christian.

I agree. The bible belt. The sooner people get rid of this God and thinking the better off the world will be. Love and take care from Buddhist/Agnostic Lee.

@Bryson Cole That's quite judgmental, anathema to true Christian teachings. I'm an agnostic, recovering Southern Baptist, and Spong is the closest I've seen to a true modern prophet.

@Bryson Cole this manis a representative of Satan!! straight out! he is one ofthose whoJude speaks of when he says “For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long before hand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of God into licentiousness and deny our Lord and Master Jesus Christ”

@Bryson Cole Self hating cringe. I read a book of Sponger years ago l had forgotten how much he "criticised God"!?!? He wants to Keep his fat stipend and recycle Christianity as (lame) stand up comedy, cos he's too old to start over again stocking shelves or pumping tyres. The worst kind of 2 faced Judas imo.

And that is because ,He like you, is a critical thinker. So many do not believe because they only know the BS version of religion , mans infected and corrupted forms. I do not believe in the very same GOD that you do not believe in.

Why are you an atheist?

You do realize that Bishop Spong was an atheist himself?

John Shelby sponge makes one want to know about the history of christanity

This is the best comment, given that a rabid anti religionist is heartened by the lecture of a backpedaling Backdoor Bishop. Bishop of what now? This is your actual demographic Bible bending backboneless Bishop Spong.

Yes and it also applies to the teachings of Jesus🙂

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Most western religions do

God bless you my beloved. the moment I want through my comment I saw a revelation concerning you, your family and things around you. my dear, I saw God favour, success, joy, breakthrough. behind that I saw more spiritual attacks, from the enemies working on holding such blessings, causing your set back, but you are lefted above any spiritual tower. so the Lord is instructing you to sow a seed of faith into to a motherless babies home.(orphanage) this is going to be a covenant seed between you and God. the Lord ask me to tell you before the end of,3 three days, you should try as much as possible to sow the seed the into godstime motherless babies home (orphanage) located in somewhere in Nigeria to bring spiritual and divine breakthrough in your life and that of your family because there is power in sowing of seed contact the (orphanage) home management or you can also WhatsApp them on this numbers,+2348025125218 if you are through with this let me know, so I will give you guide line on how you should pray God bless you.....

That's his Bishop job as he sees it, to throw you the wolves. He's awfully good isn't he. Satan gets a hard earned day off whenever Spong speaketh.

@@veronica_._._._ Your comment brought me back here ten years after I wrote my comment. In that ten years, I've gotta say I no longer consider myself an atheist - but someone drawn to that God who hovers above all the world's religions, just as Spong spoke about in this video. Bless you Veronica.

@@mystarmach And Bishop Spong has met his maker (and no longer bites the hand that feeds him), time marches inexorably on 🥺 Well that's a plot twist, Ok now l just peg you as the meticulous cautious type, carefully dotting yours iota's and crossing your T's 😉

Uh, Bro. Mysta, saying you're an atheist is like turning away from the sun or turning off a lightbulb and groping in darkness.

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Uh, sweetheart, dont be too proud to be an atheist. You're negating God who created you and is just waiting for you to wake up. Denying God doesnt mean he is not real.

God is us, and we do not love unconditionally., Why did he kill so many in the old testament?

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He did not wbo is unconditional love.

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You're right about Spong. Of course he will receive death threats by fundamentalists. Maybe people will get more out of the bible by not taking it so literally. It's time to get rid of tribalism and hate. Love to everything from Buddhist/Agnostic Lee.

@@brycewarren5894 Boring? Spong is wonderful.

I know right?!?!

Spong just recently passed away....he is one of the enlightened ones, for sure..

RIP, great man who touched so many lives

@@vanman724 Luciferian enlightenment, what kind of guy takes the money and the bites the hand that feeds him, what a weasel. If he'd left his fat salary fair enough, sound off, but he was just a vanilla grifter after all.

@@veronica_._._._ Why the private message Veronica (i.e., not public)? I'm ok with that, just wondering why..

@@vanman724 l have no idea what you means, You Tube doesn't have have private msgs

I was imagining Jesus preaching and telling people they should be perfect as their father in heaven is perfect. It seems possible that those who listened to him, believed he was a prophet or even a divine person. And, so they would believe him when he told them that AT LEAST some of them could be PERFECT and would SEE HEAVEN. When he dies for opposing the temple priesthood, perhaps some of them thought they had been graced in some way by their encounter with him. The apostles would eventually continue his ministry and celebrate the Lord's Supper with them, and teach them the Lord's Prayer.

What a GREAT story!!! All that pain.. but ended in VICTORY!!!

Beautifully put! "man has woven evil into the bible". I will remember that expression!! THANK U.

God bless you my beloved. the moment I want through my comment I saw a revelation concerning you, your family and things around you. my dear, I saw God favour, success, joy, breakthrough. behind that I saw more spiritual attacks, from the enemies working on holding such blessings, causing your set back, but you are lefted above any spiritual tower. so the Lord is instructing you to sow a seed of faith into to a motherless babies home.(orphanage) this is going to be a covenant seed between you and God. the Lord ask me to tell you before the end of,3 three days, you should try as much as possible to sow the seed the into godstime motherless babies home (orphanage) located in somewhere in Nigeria to bring spiritual and divine breakthrough in your life and that of your family because there is power in sowing of seed contact the (orphanage) home management or you can also WhatsApp them on this numbers,+2348025125218 if you are through with this let me know, so I will give you guide line on how you should pray God bless you