This may not have been penned with the dignity such a profound effort deserves, but I really can’t argue with the thought. In fact, it’s a pretty compelling insight—probably more so than the student realized. A very human-centered idea of Holy Writ. Trying to figure out what’s going on is, in fact, what we do, from the moment we’re born to the moment we die—admittedly, some more desperately than others.
Enjoy this new “take” on Scripture!
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June 11th, 2013 at 12:27 pm
That student said it all. We’re all trying to figure out what is going on.
June 11th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
And some of us are so worn out with the effort, all we really
want to do is have fun!
June 17th, 2013 at 9:41 am
Which MAY be what’s going on!
June 11th, 2013 at 8:34 pm
Concise and contemporary…expect to hear this on TV some Sunday morning?
June 12th, 2013 at 11:45 am
It is actually not a “new take”. One of the theories of how the Biblical texts came into being (and the commonly accepted theory in the Dutch Reformed branch of Calvinism) is that they arose out of a conversation between their respective authors and God, which is basically what your student said. This is opposed to the other main theory that God dictated the scriptures and the authors merely wrote it down (which is the only accepted theory in Islam, for example).
June 17th, 2013 at 9:17 am
Well, kokkieh, yes and no. My student didn’t include or imply the “God” half of the conversation. What I got from him was a sense that it was, in a way, speculative fiction. An interesting way to think about it.