What Do We Do With the Bible? by Richard Rohr

Author:Richard Rohr [Rohr Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780281083220
Publisher: SPCK

The Bible is inspired differently than God inspires anything else.

The Bible follows the universal pattern of divine inspiration. It evolved, like the ages and eras of the universe and planets themselves, through many stages of writing, redaction, rearrangement, many edits, and compilations. As I stated earlier, the four different, ancient sources of the Pentateuch—the Yahwist, the Elohist, the Deuteronomic, and the Priestly—developed at very different periods in history. What we know as the book of Genesis likely came together as late as 500 bc. We tried to understand a totally dynamic God through a very static notion of time and history.

We also know that Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant voting councils long argued and disagreed on the exact canon, which is why we still speak of the Apocrypha, the Deuterocanonicals, or the Secondary Canon. Most people frankly operate by giving more authority to some books than to others (John’s Gospel over Joshua and Judges, Paul’s letters to the Corinthians over the book of Revelation). Of course, we cannot say that publicly—although I just did. God sure took a lot of unnecessary risks. Maybe that heavenly zip-top bag would have been a good idea.

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