The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers.
We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined.
Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church's prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God.
Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
HT: Wade Hodges
2 comments:
Yes!
How strange that we are afraid of the Love of God...when we should be running to it!
Blessings.
so where did the perception that the good news will ruin our life came from???
do you think???
the fact that that lie sounds suspiciously like a lie Eve heard lends credibility to Kierkegaard's statement.
i think.
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