I am a rule follower. At an early age, I learned there are certain things about God that you’re not supposed to ask. Therefore, I never asked anything. I just accepted whatever I was told or perceived as absolute truth. For example, I never questioned why I had to wear a long lacey dress and frilly itchy gloves to church. I never asked why when my grandmother told me only men could be preachers. I grew up Baptist which meant long, loud, fiery sermons. It meant a rollicking roiling gospel choir. It meant accepting that every Sunday somebody was going “catch the holy ghost” and dance, shake, and shimmy through the sanctuary. This was church and I loved every minute of it.

Everything about church, God, and Jesus made perfect sense as long as …show more content…
There were too many inconsistences that did not square up with my knowledge and experience of the world. The bigger my world got as a teenager, the smaller the God of my youth became. I just couldn’t reconcile the two realities. I was expected to critically think, research, and problem solve …show more content…
In his book, Borg creates a space for contemporary Christianity in the modern world. He does not do so with cheap grace. Instead Borg challenges his readers to expand their definition of God, Christ, and the Bible. Borg argues that Christianity does in fact make sense, but many Christians are practicing an outmoded version. He suggests the shift in the paradigm is similar to Ptolemaic and Copernican different approaches to understanding the universe. In 150 A.D. Ptolemy’s mathematic model for the universe assumed the earth was stationary; therefore, all the planets rotated around the earth. Ptolemy’s geocentric view became the universally accepted position. It is worth noting that a geocentric view did not contradict with widely accepted theological presuppositions of the