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Every systematic theology, every air-tight system, every completely consistent view of the bible, every logically constructed and perfectly put together faith, crashes like waves on the shoreline of  God.  Because the Bible is not the system in written form and the system, once “discovered” (read: invented)  is not the solution. The Bible is a living, breathing, personal witness to a living, breathing, personal God, with whom we have to do.  This is what drives us crazy about the God revealed in the Bible–a God of mystery, paradox, plain speech, simple commands, subtly, a.k.a. a personal God: a someone with whom we have to do.  Directly.  Last night I went to sleep dreaming-praying…
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Well I’ve gone and made a few of you nervous, which means we’ve got a good conversation going about Jesus and Paul and understanding this book that is so important to us or we wouldn’t bother.  In some of the comments to my previous post I detected a certain unease about the idea that there might be any difference in the relative weight or significance of various biblical writers or books in the Bible.  As if any suggestion of such a difference entailed a rejection of parts of the received text of Scripture.
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