C. Baxter Kruger

However, in his book, Lies We Believe About God, and this is crucial, there are twenty-eight heresies that Paul Young has written in this book debunking biblical things, biblical concepts, biblical teachings.

So when C. Baxter Kruger and William Paul Young, C. Baxter Kruger wrote The Shack Revisited, when they get together and they endorse each other's books and, uh, you know, it just reinforces Paul Young's theology that he's a Christian universal, uh, universalist.

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Just real quick.

Who, who is C. Baxter Kruger? Is he simply a, a New Age author? Because you referenced him with him, and he also wrote a book called Patmos, which Christians might pick up and go, "This looks interesting." Is he just a New Age author, basically, or who is he?

He wrote Patmos.

Now, before I read the text, I wanna share this quote on the Trinity.

This is from the book Jesus and the Undoing of Adam by C. Baxter Kruger.

He writes this, quote, "When Christianity says God, it says relationship.

It says self-giving love expressing itself in boundless fellowship and joyous unity.

So now there is a Son of Man seated inside the circle of the Trinity.

It is almost too scandalous to consider.

C. Baxter Kruger, he writes this, "At this very hour, a man sits at the right hand of the Father.

At this moment, a human being lives and dwells and abides inside the circle of all circles, inside everything that it means to be God, inside the very life and fellowship of the Father, Son, and Spirit.

... you know? In this moment, and trust the rest to Him, while at the same time being faithful.

Um, I had a conversation with, you know, m- uh, B- um, Baxter Kruger.

You know, uh, you've gotten to know him a little bit I'm sure over the years at, at some of the reunions.

And, you know, him and I do this r- this thing called Across All Worlds for Gan TV Network, all that stuff.

Beautiful.

And then if you wanna summate it, Baxter Kruger, you know, we've...

Baxter and I have been working for 30 years together.

Wow.

But I did it 12 years ago, and then it sounds fun.

I was with Baxter Kruger.

Well, I wasn't with him when I did it, but I met with him the next day because we had two weeks worth of... meetings in the UK.

But I was on a hike with my wife and brothers-in-law in the Highlands of Scotland.

The good news is the incarnation of the Word of God, that Jesus is not God's plan B after the fall of Adam.

As Dr. Kruger would say, who's coming to be with us in March, by the way, for a week, Baxter Kruger, as Dr. Kruger would say, Jesus is not a footnote to the fall of Adam.

The fall of Adam is a footnote to the incarnation of the Word of God.

And we have to get that right so that we begin to come to terms with understanding that Jesus did not, listen, this is so important.

I've asked for a Christological lens.

I've asked the Holy Spirit to give me a Christological lens, and I heard an individual, Dr. Baxter Kruger, say this, that the problem that I have with the lens is that it's still external.

So it, it still has to be put on and taken off, and it can change.

Like, why would we settle for the lens when He has given us the mind of Christ? And so I want the mind of Christ because maybe becoming like Jesus isn't primarily about trying harder to look like Him.