When I was 12 or 13 I read the NT cover to cover. I remember being floored by the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5 and 6, I think). To this day my reaction to Jesus in that first reading is what keeps me from entirely flinging Christianity out the window. Then, I got to Paul and I remember distinctly lying in bed and telling God that when I got to heaven Paul was going to have a lot of explaining to do.
The OT is something that I struggle to understand. I don't believe in a Chosen People and many of the books, mostly the history books, reveal a people attempting to take over their region and justify it to themselves (sound familiar?). But a good chunk of the OT is a story of a people attempting to make sense of faith, both personally and corporately. For that I think it has value.
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Date: 2005-01-26 07:41 am (UTC)The OT is something that I struggle to understand. I don't believe in a Chosen People and many of the books, mostly the history books, reveal a people attempting to take over their region and justify it to themselves (sound familiar?). But a good chunk of the OT is a story of a people attempting to make sense of faith, both personally and corporately. For that I think it has value.
I still have a lot of wrestling to do with this.