WOW! It's like I tapped the rock, and water gushed forth ...
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Originally Posted by aron
There's no problem with the blessed Book; the problem lies with those who handle it, people like you and I.
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And before the printing press was undeniably man-handled from start to finish, out the wazoo. I have Christian friends that tell me that God protected the Bible down thru the ages. If so, considering that none of the NT manuscripts agree, God didn't do the job of it that you'd expect a god could do.
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Originally Posted by aron
Jesus handled the blessed Book correctly. He was the very Word incarnate.
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Being the Word incarnate how could he ever get anything wrong?
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Originally Posted by aron
You and I, on the other hand, at best are partial. If we presume, Lee-like, to handle the word impeccably we maul it worst of all.
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We all (the royal we) are nothing but fumblebums ... even those like Lee, and the scholars, in the end.
But let's admit this, at least: That we are word junkies. We, the royal we, back around 6000 yrs ago, invented writing and it became a universal addiction. Some of us even believe that was when the earth was created ... the written word was turned into creation. Then we, in the last written gospel, pushed this word back to the very beginning of everything. "In the beginning was the Word." So the word, that we became addicted to, became the beginning of it all. The word became so much to us that it became everything. That's an addiction to the written word.
In fact, according to a post by UntoHim, the experience of Christ depends upon being rooted in the Word.
WOW! The word blows my mind. I really can't get my mind around it.
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Originally Posted by =aron
I myself don't want to lead a new religious movement. Things are bad enough already! But I really enjoyed looking at the word as if it were fresh, and new, and had the power to destroy all my ideas and concepts of how things were and ought to be.
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Yes, burning bushes, talking snakes, stars that move at the speed of walking, Doves descending as Spirit ... and much much more of such things, sure can blow our concepts of how it is out of the water. I'll tell you, I admit, that the Bible completely blows my mind. That's how Lee used it to hook us. He blew our mind with it. Like you said, "WL once captivated us with his ideas ..."
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Originally Posted by aron
But Jesus destroyed their concepts. And in so doing their hearts were open, and burning.
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Snazzy footwork, and wordsmithing. Jesus, too, blows my mind. And the search for the historic Jesus is futile. We get to him only thru human filters -- fallen humans at that -- writing the word back in the bronze and iron age.
But I guess it's enough for us to experience Christ.