{"id":1178,"date":"2024-04-25T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thespiritualbrewpub\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:09:27","slug":"9-lies-faith-deconstruction-critics-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thespiritualbrewpub\/2024\/04\/9-lies-faith-deconstruction-critics-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Lies Faith Deconstruction Critics Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Critics of faith deconstruction misrepresent the movement. Image by Vilius Kukanauskas from Pixabay.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>
A recently published book has created quite a buzz around faith deconstruction. It\u2019s The Deconstruction of Christianity: What It Is, Why It\u2019s Dangerous, and How to Respond<\/em> by Alisa Childers and Tim Barnett. The buzz is\u00a0from avid supporters of the book like Tom Gilson in his article, \u2018Deconstructing\u2019 Faith: The Truth Behind the Movement<\/a><\/em>, commentary and support from Sean McDowell, or critics of the book like me who have reviewed it. For example, my review here<\/a>, my podcast with others here<\/a>, Tom Oord\u2019s review here<\/a>, and Tim Whitaker\u2019s podcast<\/a> here.<\/p>\n
Because these deconstruction critics continue to horribly mispresent faith deconstruction, more needs to be said. Here\u2019s the nine lies that deconstruction critics tell that I\u2019ve noticed. I can\u2019t know for sure if these are intentional lies or just sloppy assessments, but, don\u2019t be fooled, they are lies nonetheless:<\/p>\n
1 \u2013 Faith deconstruction is a threat to Christian belief and trust in<\/strong> Jesus<\/strong><\/h3>\n
No, it\u2019s not. The overwhelming majority of people who deconstruct evangelical or fundamentalist Christianity do not trash all Christian belief or their trust in Jesus. They simply reject the harmful elements of evangelicalism and end up rebuilding a renewed faith. Most of us are reclaiming Jesus from the historically warped, unbiblical, and illogical claims of evangelicals. As one attendee of my Faith Deconstruction Workshop<\/a> said afterwards, \u201cYour workshop has been a great help\u2026<\/em> My God has gotten much bigger and I\u2019m more in love with<\/em> Jesus than ever. It is time that we reclaim Jesus!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Deconstructionists have a dishonest agenda to deconvert evangelicals<\/strong><\/h3>\n*******
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*******No, we don\u2019t. The agenda of faith deconstructionists is (1) to expose harmful theologies in evangelicalism or fundamentalism that cause religious trauma and (2) to recover a healthy Christian faith or renewed philosophy of life that is true to the historical record, sound biblical scholarship, and philosophical arguments. It\u2019s true that some deconstructionists deconvert from Christianity altogether. But the overwhelming majority don\u2019t. Most discover a more historically honest faith in Christ. For the minority that leave the faith altogether, most of them still retain an admiration for the love ethic of Jesus. Our agenda is not to deconvert. Each of us has our preferences where to land after deconstruction, but our \u201cagenda\u201d is to help people heal from religious trauma, spiritual abuse, and historically dishonest and fear-based theologies so they can find peace. Deconstruction does not equal deconversion. Leaving the evangelical church does not mean leaving Jesus.<\/p>\n
3 \u2013 Faith deconstruction started with the fall of humankind in the Garden of Eden<\/strong><\/h3>\n*********
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*********Critics like to couch deconstruction as a long-time phenomenon that started when Satan lured Adam and Eve to question God. We would agree that deconstruction has been going on for centuries. But it\u2019s not questioning what God says is true, it\u2019s questioning what conservative Christianity says is true. A deconstructionists studies the Bible and history and discovers that the Bible actually critiques itself, the prophets were deconstructing the sacrificial system (Hosea, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Micah, Psalms), and that Jesus was deconstructing parts of the Torah, e.g, the eye-for-eye-show-no-pity reciprocal violence narratives in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Many reformers throughout history were deconstructing entrenched corrupt theologies. Just like these examples, today\u2019s faith deconstruction is a positive thing not a negative.<\/p>\n
4 \u2013 Reconstructing genuine faith is not part of the equation of deconstructionists<\/strong><\/h3>\n
This one is probably the most blatant lie. Like I stated above, most deconstructionists don\u2019t leave Jesus. They may leave church and in some cases they may leave the institutional religion of Christianity. But that is not the same as leaving Jesus. I devote one of the sessions of my Faith Deconstruction Workshop<\/a> to reconstructing faith. Most deconstructionists choose to reclaim Jesus not reject him. They choose to liberate him from the harmful and unhistorical beliefs of conservative Christianity. Many deconstructionists wind up in progressive, Eastern Orthodox, or organic churches, while others who are done with church, pursue communities that emulate the love ethic of Jesus. My book, Breaking Bad Faith<\/a><\/em>, devotes four chapters to reconstructing faith based on the peaceable path of Jesus. Popular deconstructionist books include God After Deconstruction<\/a>, Out of the Embers: Faith After the Great Deconstruction<\/a>, <\/em>and The Reconstructionist<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
5 \u2013 Faith deconstruction is not taking apart and testing beliefs to put them back together in a more rational way<\/strong><\/h3>\n*************
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*************Be careful of this one. It\u2019s a strawman argument. This is exactly what deconstruction is. It questions and tests harmful or unhistorical beliefs and then rebuilds healthy belief. Gilson, Childers, and Barnett agree that this is a good thing but then claim deconstructionists are not doing this. They are okay if you question beliefs as long as you still remain in the evangelical camp. But if you don\u2019t, to them, you must be choosing an irrational way. They also lament that deconstructionists are subjective in their spiritual choices. Gilson acknowledges the legitimacy of questioning faith and \u201cputting it back together in a more rational way,\u201d but then accuses deconstructionists who do that of being only concerned with their own subjective truth. Which is it? Is it okay to test beliefs and put them back together in a rational way or not? Doesn\u2019t each person have a right to decide what\u2019s rational and what\u2019s not? To critics, a more rational way can only be done if you remain an evangelical. This is not rational. It\u2019s also what cults say: \u201cIf you don\u2019t hold our beliefs, even if they don\u2019t make sense to you, you are lost.\u201d<\/p>\n
6 \u2013 Deconstruction does not pursue truth but is a self-serving exercise<\/strong><\/h3>\n***************
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***************First, it\u2019s a blatant lie to say deconstructionists don\u2019t pursue truth. They are questioning doctrines, doing research, and discovering that many evangelical beliefs are actually not biblical (due to mistranslations and misinterpretations), can\u2019t be traced historically back to the original movement, lead to spiritual abuse, and are producing trauma in people. That\u2019s the truth. As for being self-serving, people don\u2019t deconstruct to pursue some selfish desire. Deconstruction has great rewards but is very difficult and painful for most people. People are pursuing answers to their nagging doubts and questions and losing friends, family, community, and years of religious stability in the process. Why do they do it? Because they have come to a point when their faith is not working anymore. They have to rethink it even though it is difficult. That is not self-serving. It\u2019s honest searching for truth.<\/p>\n
7 \u2013 Faith deconstruction teaches people to subjectively decide what\u2019s right and ignore the Word of God<\/strong><\/h3>\n
To deconstruction critics, if you don\u2019t believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, you are rejecting its authority. These critics ignore the history of how the Bible was compiled and the evidence that early believers (and Jesus) and even Luther didn\u2019t treat the Bible as infallible. There\u2019s a way of viewing the Bible that is not making it into an idol, like these critics typically do. Most deconstructionists don\u2019t throw out the whole Bible<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>as can be understood by hearing the points made by Peter Enns here<\/a>. Faithful deconstructionists look at the Bible through the lens of Jesus and what he said that matters most: Love sums up the scriptures and living a life of love fulfills what God desires. These are the very things that both Jesus and Paul taught. The gospel of John tells us that Jesus is the Word of God not the Bible. Discovering these things is not subjectively deciding and it\u2019s not rejecting biblical authority and truth. It\u2019s trying to get closer to objective truth. It\u2019s discovering what\u2019s contradictory in the scriptures, what scripture most likely means per the original languages and culture, and then what\u2019s most important in them and focusing on that.<\/p>\n
8 \u2013 Most people who deconstruct their faith were never true believers<\/strong><\/h3>\n*******************
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*******************Sean McDowell, Alisa Childers, and Tim Barnett come to this conclusion. Really? All us former evangelical missionaries, pastors, home group leaders, worship musicians, and church members with years of experience in ministries, evangelism, church planting, missions, and service in the church weren\u2019t real believers? That\u2019s convenient to help them explain away our critiques, but it\u2019s undoubtedly not true. Every person I\u2019ve met who has or is deconstructing were sincere in their evangelical faith. They weren\u2019t false converts.<\/p>\n
9 \u2013 Deconstructionists are leaving historic Christianity<\/strong><\/h3>\n*********************
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No, it\u2019s actually the opposite. To most critics of deconstruction, historic Christianity is primarily what certain reformers, a few church fathers, and Augustine taught. What they miss is the wider breadth of historic Christianity. They ignore swaths of historical analysis that goes back to the first century and the early church and doesn\u2019t include Augustine, who seriously warped the message of Jesus. Anything called \u201cHistoric Christianity\u201d that leaves out the following is not a good study of history: the many early orthodox church fathers who supported universalism, the early various views of the Bible (and even Luther\u2019s view that the New Testament books should be graded with some more inspirational than others), how the Bible was compiled, how it\u2019s been mistranslated in many cases, what\u2019s the original language and culture behind the supposed \u201chomosexuality\u201d passages, the views of the Eastern church, the origins of the doctrines of inerrancy, original depravity, penal substitutionary atonement, and hell, the evolution of the institutional church, and the scholarship on the original Hebrew and Greek languages. Critics of deconstruction rarely mention these major issues that deconstructionists address.<\/p>\n
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*********************Please beware of these nine lies. Critics of faith deconstruction grossly mispresent what\u2019s going on and then attack the misrepresentations. That\u2019s called a strawman argument and is irresponsible and misleading. Faith deconstruction is not attacking true spirituality. It\u2019s exposing harmful and unhistorical faith claims and seeking what we can be confident is assuredly or probably true and what we can\u2019t. It\u2019s not rejecting the authentic Jesus but the evangelical version of Jesus. It\u2019s reclaiming a healthy faith or theory of life not trashing all faith. Don\u2019t believe the lies of deconstruction critics.<\/p>\n
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