The way i look at those amazing miracles depicted in the Bible is this: God does not live in time as we do. He exists simultaneously in the present, the past and the future. He knows All right to the end of days on Earth. Now put yourself in his shoes. How would you try to explain current day events like, say, electricity to people in 10BC? It would sound totally bizarre to them however you put it. Hmmm... it's tricky to explain... but when i read the Bible I don't read it as literal... or mere analogy...but a kind of combination of the two. I read it for intent mainly... but when it comes to the science behind the events I am prepared to be open-minded about it. I think that yes... maybe those seas DID part! maybe there is some truth to it. Every now and then I read those tiny little articles in the newspaper about some discovery or another... for example about human health... most recently about people who can't metabolise mammal protein (I think i might be one of these)... how if people didn't listen to their bodies and therefore make the eating of mammal protein a personal "sin" for themselves then there would be bad consequences for THEM. Maybe this is why is says in the Bible that all food is good... but if YOU think a particular food is sinful them YOU must abide by this. Know what i mean? It goes on that you should respect that other people have labelled some foods sinful and to not serve or tempt them with these foods. How radical is that!??? (For the times). Personally I suspect that in the future many of the traditions upheld in the Bible will start to make sense... that we will have more light-bulb moments and say... 'oh that's why...'.
I live my life knowing that I'm a naive child constantly questioning and doing things despite the warnings... God must look down on me and shake his head and have extreme patience as he waits for me to say "Oh... but I didn't know"... just like my own kids do when they realise that something i nag them about actually has a reason behind it.
From our perspective most of us probably feel really sophisticated as we use our latest technology... our wii's and our e's this and that. But from God's perspective we are primitives, much loved primitives, that have just discovered how to use fire.... we don't understand it... but gee it's clever/pretty/impressive. I don't think that we can reasonably expect a Bible for every era. One for the Iron Age, one for the Industrial Age, one for the Digital Age. This is why i am fairly content to read the Bible in terms of macro and micro perspective and I see the value in reading about miracles. Because just because we have wireless technology doesn't mean that this is the limit to science. God knew we would develop digital technology... He is a lot more sophisticated than us. Think about the ease we download information from one format to another... we think it's pretty impressive that we can send a MP3 file across the planet faster than the speed of light... who's to say that God isn't an entity that can download our souls into Heaven as we are dying? Our brainwaves and heart beats are electricity after all...
whoa... sorry about that *ducking and hiding with you!*
Last edited by Bathsheba; December 22nd, 2009 at 03:35 PM.
From our perspective most of us probably feel really sophisticated as we use our latest technology... our wii's and our e's this and that. But from God's perspective we are primitives, much loved primitives, that have just discovered how to use fire.... we don't understand it... but gee it's clever/pretty/impressive. I don't think that we can reasonably expect a Bible for every era. One for the Iron Age, one for the Industrial Age, one for the Digital Age. This is why i am fairly content to read the Bible in terms of macro and micro perspective and I see the value in reading about miracles. Because just because we have wireless technology doesn't mean that this is the limit to science. God knew we would develop digital technology... He is a lot more sophisticated than us. Think about the ease we download information from one format to another... we think it's pretty impressive that we can send a MP3 file across the planet faster than the speed of light... who's to say that God isn't an entity that can download our souls into Heaven as we are dying? Our brainwaves and heart beats are electricity after all...
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