Ken Schenck has a post up that provides today’s quote of the day. It begins with the same theme as David Ker’s book: The Bible Wasn’t Written To You. But then Ken goes on to say something more that even those who get this first point can overlook:
The individual books of the Bible themselves do not have the same audiences. That is, the “Y-O-U” of each book is often different from each other.
It is a simple point, and for many of us it is obvious and may even seem scarcely worth mentioning. But it needs to be mentioned because, as Ken’s post points out, a lot of readers miss this crucial insight. Not only should one not treat the Bible as written to themselves, one also should not read the Bible as though it were addressing the same people throughout. And that means that one ought not to think that they have discovered “the Bible’s answers” when similar-sounding things are said in multiple places. Because the same thing, said in a different context, can have different connotations.
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