Consider the absurdity of a group of friends who got together for a pickup game of football. One of them suddenly realised and announced that they had left the football behind, only for another to reply, with a wave of hand “forget the football, let’s get on with the game!”
Well, for some people, the question isn’t so much ‘how do I read the Bible?’ but why should I bother reading it at all? Perhaps the underlying thought behind that question is the perplexity of how a book from ages ago, originally written to people in different contexts, speaks to us now in the 21st Century. That thought poses a bigger question, and will be discussed in another post. For now, we’ll focus on the more fundamental question of the motivation for deferring to the Bible. Continue reading “Why bother?”