Photo by Daniel Morton on Unsplash Well it's been a few weeks, and there's been a lot of reading going on though, for various reasons, I've not fulfilled my aim of reading Dan McLellan's 'The Bible Says So' though I keep up with Dan's work online and continue to be grateful for his insights and refutations of bad Biblical Scholarship and misinformation. I remember a time when I thought I had all the answers, when I thought that I knew about what was in the Bible, that I read the Bible in the way it was meant to be read. I know now that I was being fed a certain way of reading Scripture that backed up my presuppositions rather than allowing Scripture to challenge me, or allowing me to challenge the Scriptures I read. When writers such as Zach Lambert, whose book I reviewed in my last post, or Dan McLellan offer new ways of learning about the Bible and its construction, and new ways of interpreting and viewing the Bible, I now realize that this is not the t...
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"Within the spiritual community there is never, nor in any way, any immediate relationship of one to another, whereas human desire for community, for immediate contact with other human souls, just as in the flesh there is the urge for physical merger with other flesh."
As I read many blogs, I notice so many of them are diary entries. So many of us want/need to be known. A personal blog supports that need. It need not matter whether the thoughts are erudite or not. The desire is that someone will read about in be interested in the fact that you put bananas in your Cheerios that morning.