If your faith and doctrine are like a beautiful house, with the clean lines of certainty and the firm foundation of God’s Truth, then letting me into your house would be, I’d expect, quite unsettling. Because I’d always be looking at a wall and saying “Is this a load bearing wall? Let me knock it down to see!” Day in and day out, this is exactly what this blog would feel like. Me trying to knock down every wall in the house. In short, from this vantage point–inside a beautiful house–all my work appears to be inherently destructive, breaking down and tearing up this beautiful building. So of course you’d want me to stop that. You’d want to protect the house.

—Richard Beck, describing how “conservative” Christians may view his blog.

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