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Friday and Sabbath, March 7 and 8, 2025
Tuesday of this week Shelley and I dropped by a favorite bookstore (which combines new and used volumes), and as usual I walked over to the reference section.
There I saw this lineup of books, exactly as you see them, in this order. As I studied them, I reached for my smartphone to snap a photo. These are various ways people look at the Bible, I thought. But which is right?
Some people see the Bible as a treasury of quotable quotes – moral aphorisms to live by. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “Love your enemies.”
Others read Scripture as a repository of extraordinary facts. God created us? God became human? God died and rose again – and can perform this same miracle for others?
Still others consider the Bible as filled with useless information, to be discarded if modern science thinks it should be.
But the wisest (and humblest) of Bible students have discovered that in the deepest and most eternal sense, the Word of God is “real world research.” Science and philosophy go only so deep – but Scripture goes even deeper:
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 NKJV
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