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The bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of god always bringing life where we expected to find death. everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
-Eugene H. Peterson
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The Bible Is Not A Script For

Eugene H. Peterson
The bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of god always bringing life where we expected to find death. everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
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Someone's killed 100,000 people. we're almost going, "well done! you killed 100,000 people? you must get up very early in the morning! i can't even get down the gym. your diary must look odd: 'get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "
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A few years ago the deists denied the inspiration of the bible on account of its cruelty. at the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the god of nature. now we are convinced that nature is as cruel as the bible; so that, if the god of nature did not write the bible, this god at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this god has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. so that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the bible is inspired and not as to whether jehovah is the real god, but whether there is a god or not.
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We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. the paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. to those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal - an illusion - since it rests upon the paper. the wise person looks upon both paper and script as one.
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What is sin? it is the glory of god not honored. the holiness of god not reverenced. the greatness of god not admired. the power of god not praised. the truth of god not sought. the wisdom of god not esteemed. the beauty of god not treasured. the goodness of god not savored. the faithfulness of god not trusted. the commandments of god not obeyed. the justice of god not respected. the wrath of god not feared. the grace of god not cherished. the presence of god not prized. the person of god not loved. that is sin.
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We are not to make the torah into god himself, nor the bible into a "paper pope." the bible is only the result of the word of god. we can experience the return of the word of god in the here and now, the perpetual return of the actual, living, indisputable word of god that makes possible the act of witnessing, but we should never think of the bible as any sort of talisman or oracle constantly at our disposal that we need only open and read to be in relation to the word of god and god himself.
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