Learning Papa's Language EP40

James and Larry shares some of their experiences of growing up in church and what the learned and now are unlearning.

From the transcript...

Yeah, I think about all of what was placed around us, boxing us in, everything. You're born a sinner, child of the devil, total hereditary depravity.

Here's the Bible, the inspired, inherent, infallible Word of God, rule of faith and practice, the exclusivity of that, with no or little minimal hearing from God, leading of the Spirit, or voice of the Spirit, voice of the Father.

Even though gratefully it was salvation by grace through faith, but then you had to perform in order, you had to believe right and act right in order to get your eternal rewards, be in the bride of Christ, all that stuff.

Penal substitutionary view of atonement, looking at everything through a legal len ...