Since the book was published in 2021, the experience of George Floyd is very much behind the analogy in the title. Thus, “To save our faith we must decolonize it.” I am grateful that our denominational confession of faith has removed these words from its vocabulary, but the doctrine persists in the minds of many of our congregants. Parker’s book, If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I? Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority, is to demonstrate how the doctrine of the inerrancy and infallibility of Scripture serves as a tool of White supremacist authoritarianism. It matters.” (From the foreword by Lisa Sharon Harper) It is about geopolitical context and power. Color here is not about the hues of the rainbow. Likewise, every single writer of Scripture was Brown… the entire New Testament was written by Brown colonized Afro-Asian peoples in the context of the White and western supremacist Roman Empire. The entirety of Scripture was written and originally read and heard within the context of the colonized or those under threat of colonization.
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