Does Brian McLaren Believe that the Protestant Bible Communicates Truth About God?
the Bible, I’m still a little uneasy, because I know about some of the other images of God that are also found in the Bible—violent images, cruel images, un-Christlike images.[4]” McLaren clearly calls God, the only God that exists, his Creator, un-Christlike. He simply does not like the images accredited to God in the Hebrew Scriptures; and he will either try to explain them away, or he will try to accredit the “un-Christlike” images to a Greco-Roman Platonic view of God instead of his purported Aristotelian view: “Now the god of this Greco-Roman version of the biblical story bears a strange similarity in many ways to Zeus (Jupiter for the Romans), but we will name him Theos. The Greco-Roman god Theos, I suggest, is a far different deity from the Jewish Elohim of Genesis 1, or Lord (referring to the unspeakable name of the Creator) of Genesis 2 and 12, not to mention the Abba to whom Jesus prayed. As a good—no, make that perfect—Platonic god, Theos loves spirit, state, and being and h
