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an evolution of understandings of God/ Life.
-the Old Testament as a story of a people's response to/ understanding of life: God outside of us -the New Testament [the Gospels] as a story of one person's response to/ understanding of life: God with us and inside us -the Now Testament, evolution from people to individual to us: now considering God not only outside, not only with and inside, but all -humans, uniquely as a species as far as we know, have the ability to hold abstractions -Jesus is a way to understand our individual experience of God within us -Jesus tried to have people lean on, learn from, their tradition but not wholly depend on it -using the form to get to the spirit -no scribe followed Jesus around and wrote down all he said -it is not so much the intention of the giver but the receiver who, individually, decides -New Testament not so much historical document as sacred text -harassment training at Jake's work -The Paper Chase movie (IMDb.com) -the greatest commandment Matthew 22:34–40 Luke 10:25–28 (BibleGateway.com) -life is an ever-evolving thing, a continuous creation -we (as individuals) get to decide what what is written in the Bible means, and we already do -Mark's favorite gospel is the Book of Mark; it requires more imagination than the others -Jake holds most important in Luke the stories Jesus tells in Luke 15–16 [talked about in lpo ways] -Christianity is a mystery religion not a classic religion -Jesus about life not about death -Mark would read Mark 1:1–15 and Genesis 1–4 -"God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth." John 4:24 (BibleGateway.com) regarding learning from stories enduring scm37 why bother with the bible? pt1/2 scm38 why bother with the bible? pt2/2 Marc and I talk about our favorite Bible passages, discussing how we understand them, and what we add to them, in scm47 imagining two bible passages you may also be interested in the LyU podcast series luke's perspective, and ours lpo (a story of Jesus) earliest of days eod (foundational biblical stories) 1 hour 1 minute 06-14-21 debug comment |