As with all theology, talk of the atonement is conjecture. God's truth is ultimately a mystery to which no human being is privy.Thus his conclusion:
For my part, it's clear. I'm not interested in a God who needs to bargain with the Devil, or in a God who is bound to a legal system, no matter how just it seems to us. The crucifixion was the single most pivotal event in the history of the cosmos. In it, we see that the true character of God is love. God loves with an immensity that is hard to fathom. So much, in fact, that he forsook much of that divinity in order to find solidarity with you and me.Doesn't quote A disqualify quote B? We can't know anything for sure about God yet here are the things that I know about God. They are "clear". Love and solidarity are ultimate? But I thought we can't know anything "ultimately"?
So ironic that in quote A it's all mystery, but in quote B he is willing to use the word "true". Cake and eat it too?
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Keller's book "Reason for God" is helpful in this case. The excerpted quote makes it seem Jones is saying you can't know absolute truth vis a vis the atonement. He then makes his own truth claim. At least he makes a truth claim...most Emergents just ask questions.
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