Manna Blog Day 231: Dissection part 2 Today the Lord brings me back to yesterday’s image, which was about how science and faith might be better off complementing one another in a holistic view of creation rather than a cold dissection of the facts alone. What I am given today to share is that a lot of the time the same is true of the way we read Scripture. We can be so minute, exact and certain, poring over the text with our scalpels, that we forget to look at the Bible as a living Word, and we forget to put the truths we know about God into our thinking. These omissions are just as unhelpful as the times we look at verses out of context, and can lead us to equally soul-bending ungodly conclusions. The ultimate context of parts of scripture is the sum of the Lord’s relationship with us, that is, scripture viewed as a whole. Added to this, the Word itself tells us that God’s creation speaks and breathes the things we need to know, and so our experience of nature and our own experience of God, whilst it must be trustworthy and should never contravene Scripture, adds nuances to the whole meaning. In other words, one isolated, exactly interpreted phrase may be held too clinically, and our understanding would be vastly enriched by looking at it not just through linguistic and cultural microscopes, but also through the understanding of the larger narrative curve of scripture and the love of God and the wonder of nature and of our own spiritual wisdom. “For since the creation of the world Gods invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” Romans 1:20 ©K Dibbens-Wyatt 2013
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:37:40 +0000
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