Jared Byas

“It is far better to believe in what we love than to be in love with what we believe.” -John Caputo

Christians have outsourced our meaning-making activity to the Bible. The result is that we don't know how to create and thus sold our birthright as image-bearers for the illusion of certainty. This is the nihilism Nietzsche warned us about.

@equipping_faith Just a wretched sinner saved by grace!

There’s a real cultural danger in pastors and biblical scholars being seen as experts in areas that are beyond their field. We are no longer in a world where knowing the Bible, & that alone, gives folks license to speak into ethics, science, history, or politics authoritatively.

@theB4NP I figured this is X so I better mock a woman and degrade her accomplishments #wheninrome

@jbyas exactly feel bad for me

Someone commented about on one of our posts and said “omg why does this account respond to some comments and not others 🙄” and I just want to send them this screenshot because it is my reality 24/7 🤣

@rjppaint Not difficult for me. I don’t think God is in charge of elections. If Trump wins it’s because people voted for him.

Some Christians when their candidate gets elected: God’s in control and the Bible says God appoints our leaders. Same Christians when their candidate doesn’t get elected: We went against God’s will and are doomed as a country. Pick a lane!

11 years ago today, I took a survey in my class where 85% of my students were self-identified Evangelicals: How many of you believe we can know absolute truth? 5% raised their hands. This is the new normal folks. We have to help people of faith grapple with reality, not deny it.

"If there's two things I'm good at, it's managing my own time and not micro-managing others," he said as he went around the entire house and office unclicking all the pens that were left clicked throughout the day.

Don't get so wrapped up in discovering your future purpose that you forget about creating your present meaning.

@HomebrewedXnty @peteenns I’m just trying to rustle up some beef. Controversy sells.

Trying to recover after @jbyas said, “Tripp is the person I am least excited to see at #TheologyBeerCamp.” I’m glad @peteenns didn’t agree.

@trippfuller @theB4NP You wouldn’t be the first…

@theB4NP I think it’s @jbyas smile that leads me to the slippery slope of relativism.

Is deconstruction "anything goes" relativism? With Jared Byas.

@masonmennenga But which image goes with which book? I can see it being argued either way.

@JeremyM71562220 Hopefully my prooftexting days are well behind me.

@jbyas Do you have a chapter and verse to back that up?

Barbie review: loved it. I think I was smiling the entire movie except for the few times I cried. My brand of humor and my blend of humor and philosophical questioning. 100% will be watching again.

I was determined to do the Barbenheimer double feature this weekend until I saw Opp is 3 hours long. So it’s Barbie tonight and Oppenheimer on Sunday. As St Paul says, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

@theB4NP *you

it's more fun to have questions than act like u have all the answers!

Despite what your family system might have told you (explicitly or implicitly), knowing what you want and then asking for it is not selfish.