{"id":35675,"date":"2014-06-25T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=35675"},"modified":"2014-06-26T18:53:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T02:53:31","slug":"greg-boyd-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/greg-boyd-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Greg Boyd and I arguing the same thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks ago, I announced that I was giving up on my proposal<\/a> (…again<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Then Chuck McKnight<\/a> alerted me to this video interview of Greg Boyd by Nate Cunningham.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3pBVQmC09Vw&feature=share&t=13m40s<\/a><\/div>\n

The video should start at the 13:40 mark, but if it doesn’t, that is where the interview begins to talk about Greg Boyd’s proposal on how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament.<\/p>\n

Greg Boyd’s view sounds shockingly similar to the view I am having great difficultly defending<\/a> from Scripture. I am not at all saying that Greg Boyd is borrowing from me (he doesn’t know me), but it makes me wonder if I was on the right track after all…<\/p>\n

Sigh…<\/p>\n

06\/26\/14 UPDATE:<\/p>\n

As a follow-up from the comments below, here is a much more in-depth video about Greg Boyd’s proposal (thanks to Soli Deo Gloria<\/a>): <\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b5CkCGR9YI4&feature=share&t=28m00s<\/a><\/div>\n

It sounds shockingly similar to what I have been arguing. I promise I have never watched this video before until yesterday (June 25, 2014). The things he is talking about in this video I was writing about over a year ago. But it looks like he gave this Q&A several months before that… So did Greg Boyd steal my book<\/a>, or did I steal his? Neither! <\/p>\n

I was listening to a podcast this morning from 2012 where Raborn Johnson and Steve Sensenig talked about a Theology Rooted in Love<\/a>, and they were saying many of the same things as well! <\/p>\n

You know what I think is going on? This is another example where the Spirit of God moves in the hearts and minds of people all around the world to see similar truths at similar times so that we all work together to teach and learn what the Spirit is saying to the church. It is, as Richard Rohr calls it, the spiritual “symbiosis” between mutual members of the Body of Christ (