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The 24/7 blog that we've called Resources is intended to be a multifaceted exploration of the Christian life. It is a place where we expand the conversation about what God is doing in our lives and in our community, and further reflect on what it looks like to live a life of full devotion to Christ, 24/7. This post is an article by N.T. Wright, Anglican Bishop and Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews in Scotland, and author of Scripture And The Authority Of God: How To Read The Bible Today.
"A regular response to these problems is to say that the Bible is a repository of timeless truth. There are some senses in which that is true. But the sense in which it is normally meant is certainly not true. The whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation is culturally conditioned. It is all written in the language of particular times, and evokes the cultures in which it came to birth. It seems, when we get close up to it, as though, if we grant for a moment that in some sense or other God has indeed inspired this book, he has not wanted to give us an abstract set of truths unrelated to space and time. He has wanted to give us something rather different, which is not (in our post-enlightenment world) nearly so easy to handle as such a set of truths might seem to be."
Read the whole article here.
As my geography teacher would say, I believe in a God who is big enough to have created the world in a literal 7 days, complete with loads of history for us to discover, or to have sovereignly controlled a process though which we have this amassing world we live in today. Either way we have an unfathomable God.
far to complex for it to have all just happened by chance, or chance se
Personally I feel the more we learn through science the more science shows us how God needs to be involved because the more we know it seems to only uncover how little we know. The universe is far to intrigue to be the result of chance survival of the fittest.
JvG