Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Not about You


The Bible is not about you, it is about the king Jesus Christ.

6 comments:

  1. Actually the Bible is kinda about me. As Pratt always says, you can't be Christocentric without being Faris-pocentric.

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  2. Careful, Josh. I'm no fan of therapeutic-moralistic deism either. But if I have no stake in the biblical narrative then what's the point?

    The Bible is about us, just not the way we think it is.

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  3. Steve,

    It seems better to me to say that the Bible is for us, instead of about us. Right?

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  4. Josh,

    I don't think that particular wording is as important as the broader hermeneutic used to interpret either participial phrase. If one is using moralistic-therapeutic deism then "for" and "about" mean the same, consumeristic/therapeutic thing. I'd rather comport the phrases under the hermeneutic of confessional Reformed orthodoxy and get a Christian understanding.

    Aren't you glad you asked? It's hard being an exacting Calvinist, isn't it?

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  5. If it's not about me, then why is there a book named after me? And don't say it's about a different Joshua, cause that's just... uh... I mean... I uh... I could have time traveled or something... so how do you know it's not about me. Yeah that's it!

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