Post 8

The idea of Holy Scripture being read as literature, happens to be a topic that I have never really considered. Although I would presume that many Christians would think of reading the Word as a story is somewhat blasphemous. I tend to disagree. I feel that everything God has created around us is beautiful. Music, nature, even humans all share as part of God’s creation and have a common theme throughout them. This theme is beauty. In all of God’s creations there is always some aspect of design in which one is just simply left in awe. If God could make something like a sunset so pretty, how more thought has went into his divine Word? I believe God inspired the Bible to be more than just facts and information; but for that information to be written elegantly, creatively, and beautifully. Joel is an example of just that. The book of Joel is written as a poem, as a plead with the people to repent. God chooses to use descriptive terms and vivid imagery in order to illustrate His point even further. To the many Christians who believe that God is against looking at the Bible as literary artwork: don’t take the issue up with people who read it as litertaure, but rather take it up with a God who designed beauty and literature. God clearly doesn’t have a problem with another one of His creations being beautifully designed. So what than is our benefit from looking at the Bible from a literary aspect? I would say that most of all its to inspire. Sometimes I think God uses parables or in this case imagery and metaphors to display a picture for us that could not have been depicted otherwise. I believe God wants us to dig deeper, like going outside and reading to nature. Somehow trying to connect with scripture in ways that maybe are “out of the box.” But maybe afterall thinking and being out of the box is what God intended for Christianity to be anyway. Maybe being the light, means being unconventional and different; even when reading His Word.