Leeman continued by offering this metaphor: “Suppose my wife texts and asks me to pick up milk on the way home. I then walk into the house empty-handed and say, ‘I didn’t want to risk worshipping your words. It’s YOU I love, not YOUR WORDS.’ She would say, ‘Huh?! If you love me, listen to my words!’”
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“I assume the animating impulse is the belief that the Bible is not divinely inspired and authoritative. Not God’s inerrant Word. If so, just say that. It’s more forthright,” Leeman concluded.
Blogger Samuel Sey tweeted the article, saying, “If Satan wrote an article about the Bible, it would look just like this. Satan is a blogger at Relevant magazine.”
Pastor and writer Nate Pickowicz retweeted the article, saying, “Totally irrelevant.”
Twitter user Johnny Simmons said, “I wonder which commandments the author wants to break?” Simmons’ response echoes the sentiment of many evangelicals that deconstruction and deconversion away from orthodox Christianity is primarily motivated by a desire to sin without guilt or accountability.
RELEVANT Senior Editor Responds
In a statement to ChurchLeaders, RELEVANT senior editor Tyler Huckabee said,
We publish a lot of different opinions at RELEVANT from various strains of Christian thought. Obviously, this means that no one is going to agree with everything we publish all the time. Our hope is that our readers will be able to approach these conflicts in a way that leads us all to rethink our own convictions, engage with other Christians in thoughtful conversation and, ultimately, grow closer to each other and to God through this process. As always, we appreciate every reader.
RELEVANT’s website states that their mission is publishing “ideas that break stereotypes, challenge the status quo and spur a generation to know God and change their worlds. We want to engage our generation in a deeper conversation about faith, challenging people to see God outside the box they’ve put Him in.”
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