The Living Conversation

Class Blog for Bible as Literature (Genesis) at Oregon State University, Summer 2006

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

A small thought... very small

Somewhere in either CS Lewis or the poem book, someone said that it's pointless to ask an author how he wrote a story, that an author doesn't know really what he was thinking about at the time because he was caught up in the excitement of writing it.

That to me, is what that cartoon is saying. "Theologians, you guys are always fun." Theologians have their own ideas about who God is, and what the authors were trying to tell us through the text of the Bible. They speculate then try to prove. They're searching for the "meaning" of the text... the theological meaning... when in reality, as that first little passage said, even the author of the text might not have known what he was trying to say.

And so God, the only person that would actually know what the text is really saying probably would get a bit of entertainment out of the surprised theologians that come to heaven's gates with preconceived notions about what it will be like, and who will be there...

That's my thought in brief... I think that might be the first time that I actually saw a point....

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