Chapter 12 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Good Monday Morning to this week 12 of 2021 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omnis Scriptura divinitus inspirata …. Passages, such as 2 Tim 3:16,\u00a0are elevated as a super-authoritative\u00a0standard that trumps any alleged \u201cevidence\u201d to the contrary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps it is not the view of God that yields the expectation of Scripture, but the need for a certain type of Scripture that yields\u00a0a particular view of God.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ot maybe a little of both?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Either way,\u00a0our view of God and our view of\u00a0the\u00a0Bible go hand in hand\u2014paying attention to the one will always tell us\u00a0something about the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Bible presents a variety of points of view about God and what it means to walk in his ways. This stands to reason, since the biblical writers lived at different times, in different places, and wrote for different reasons. In reading the Bible we are watching the spiritual journeys of people long ago. Jesus, like other Jews of the first century, read his Bible creatively, seeking deeper meaning that transcended or simply bypassed the boundaries of the words of scripture. Where Jesus ran afoul of the official interpreters of the Bible of his day was not in his creative handling of the Bible, but in drawing attention to his own authority and status in doing so. A crucified and resurrected messiah was a surprise ending to Israel\u2019s story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the Bible we have, the Bible where God meets us. Not a book kept at a safe distance from the human drama. Not a fragile Bible that has to be handled with care lest it crumble in our hands. Not a book that has to be defended 24\/7 to make sure our faith doesn\u2019t dissolve. In other words, not an artificially well-behaved Bible that gives false comfort, but the Holy Bible, the Word of God, with wrinkles, complexities, unexpected maneuvers, and downright strangeness. This is the Bible God has given his people. This Bible is worth reading and paying attention to, because this is the Bible God uses, as he always has, to point its readers to a deeper trust in him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We are free to walk away from this invitation, of course, but we are not free to make a Bible in our own image. What the Bible looks like is God\u2019s call, not ours. Chapter 12 Good Monday Morning to this week 12 of 2021 Omnis Scriptura divinitus inspirata …. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2. Timothy 3.16 A … <\/p>\n
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2. Timothy 3.16
A few thoughts from Peter Enns : The Bible Tells Me So
If your dominant vision of God is of a\u00a0sovereign\u00a0king, enthroned above, who communicates to his subjects through written decrees mediated to inspired men borne along by God\u2019s spirit to insure the accuracy of the divine oracles, you will likely describe the Bible as\u00a0necessarily<\/em>: historically accurate, logically consistant, self-evidently\u00a0divine, inerrant, fully and absolutely authoritative in all it teaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wishing you a creative handling of your spiritual journey this week.
Philemon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"