Longfellow
Well-Known Member
I’ll be posting here about what I think the story is that the Bible is telling, and I’m hoping for some others to post their own ideas of what the story is. Not if any of it ever really happened or not. Not if the author is God or not. Just only what is the story?
That doesn’t exclude discussions about the historical and cultural context. Even if it’s pure fiction, discussing the historical and cultural context can be relevant to what the story is. It doesn’t exclude discussions about God’s purposes, if that God is the one that the story calls “God of Abraham.” That can also be relevant to the story. For me, it does exclude any “historical Jesus” or “Christ Spirit” or “Christ consciousness” or any other concept of God or Christ or kingdom that is not about the story in the Bible.
I want to explain how the idea came to me for this thread. I was thinking about my view of the Bible, that it’s a story told by some councils of early Christianity and by the Westminster Confession of Faith, using some writings from the first centuries of Christianity. Then I thought that it could at the same time be a story told by God. Either way, for my purposes as a person wanting to learn ti be the kind of servant that Jesus is inviting me to be, I’m interested in that story, and maybe some other people here are also, and maybe we can exchange ideas about what the story is.
That doesn’t exclude discussions about the historical and cultural context. Even if it’s pure fiction, discussing the historical and cultural context can be relevant to what the story is. It doesn’t exclude discussions about God’s purposes, if that God is the one that the story calls “God of Abraham.” That can also be relevant to the story. For me, it does exclude any “historical Jesus” or “Christ Spirit” or “Christ consciousness” or any other concept of God or Christ or kingdom that is not about the story in the Bible.
I want to explain how the idea came to me for this thread. I was thinking about my view of the Bible, that it’s a story told by some councils of early Christianity and by the Westminster Confession of Faith, using some writings from the first centuries of Christianity. Then I thought that it could at the same time be a story told by God. Either way, for my purposes as a person wanting to learn ti be the kind of servant that Jesus is inviting me to be, I’m interested in that story, and maybe some other people here are also, and maybe we can exchange ideas about what the story is.