Good News Bob
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I sent something very close to the following to my Pastor's wife on New Years, in celebration of New Years, with a few words celebrating a new year. I finished the OT a few days later (370 days to complete). I agree, it is a good book.
The seed is that which when burried it rises up a few days later. A seed preceeds both the root that reaches for water and the branch which reaches for the sun. The seed preceeds all the fruit on the tree, be that the fruit have the seed inside them.
I guess I could say more about how after a fruit ripens it falls down and feeds whosoever comes across it. But is what I wrote a proposition of science? I could see a dictionary of biology book being written in such specific grammar as to continually be significant. The reason for the words' significance has nothing to do with science, of course; but I don't think Sam Harris could say "no way!" to it (and the significance may elude him).
If you wish not to speak doubtful things, you musn't speak of faith. It is as if we had to go without the word 'God'. Consider Zephaniah 3:9-20 (the end of that book), especially Zephaniah 3: 11:
In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
Context is key. 'God' is not the only word in the Bible. If you like a passage about houses or vinyards, mustard or weddings, consider it for a while. The one above took me two weeks to produce, and is nothing like what I hoped I could say; for it is nothing more than a description of a seed. I wanted to say somehting about seeds and faith, originally. In some sense, we are all rambling fools who speak too much. Our heads flap open and closed like a waffle iron. The key is to keep it sealed long enough that you may produce a sweet morsel and not simply fling batter around all the time.
Happy New Year!
The seed is that which when burried it rises up a few days later. A seed preceeds both the root that reaches for water and the branch which reaches for the sun. The seed preceeds all the fruit on the tree, be that the fruit have the seed inside them.
I guess I could say more about how after a fruit ripens it falls down and feeds whosoever comes across it. But is what I wrote a proposition of science? I could see a dictionary of biology book being written in such specific grammar as to continually be significant. The reason for the words' significance has nothing to do with science, of course; but I don't think Sam Harris could say "no way!" to it (and the significance may elude him).
If you wish not to speak doubtful things, you musn't speak of faith. It is as if we had to go without the word 'God'. Consider Zephaniah 3:9-20 (the end of that book), especially Zephaniah 3: 11:
In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
Context is key. 'God' is not the only word in the Bible. If you like a passage about houses or vinyards, mustard or weddings, consider it for a while. The one above took me two weeks to produce, and is nothing like what I hoped I could say; for it is nothing more than a description of a seed. I wanted to say somehting about seeds and faith, originally. In some sense, we are all rambling fools who speak too much. Our heads flap open and closed like a waffle iron. The key is to keep it sealed long enough that you may produce a sweet morsel and not simply fling batter around all the time.
Happy New Year!