http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/116.html
The thunderous divine summoning that I expected never came. Even in my second year of college, I refused to acknowledge my call to the ministry, believing the assurance of such a call to inescapably involve some kind of a momentous, miraculous, divine apparition. Moses witnessed the burning but inconsumable bush, Paul set his eyes on the resurrected Jesus, and I wanted a sign too, a certain and loud voice telling me that my burning, inconsumable desire to serve the resurrected Jesus had more than a human naissance. But Moses is not the accepted author of the Pentateuch, the historicity of Paul’s vision is surely not demonstrable, and I find myself at the beginning of another stage in my life, knowing exactly where God will take me, and believing in the spiritual power and significance of the Bible, but not knowing how to abide it…
My father has been my spiritual leader for most of my adult life. Throughout my numerous personal disputes with my Hebrew Bible professor, with the Asianist of our department, with the Jesus Seminar, and with countless New Testament scholars, my father has been my ever-fixed mark, the one constant support and voice of advice. His faith seems to be as unshakable as his love. And his example opened my eyes to the beauty of being a wondering bark: that one can wonder without being lost. That if Shakespeare was ever wrong, he erred in making of change a potentially harmful thing... no, it is not the nature of change that is piercingly dangerous, but the nature of ...human condition.
My condition? Still in the middle of Midian...
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Yeah... I'm not a big fan of the Jesus Seminar.
"Let the Lord be found true and every man be found a liar."
And,
"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure, who can understand it?"
Jeremiah 17:9 for that last one... can't remember the address of the first.
Oh, well... ;)
and yet, despite it all, they are honestly convinced that they are heroically defending the truth... from Funk's speech at the very first meeting:
http://westarinstitute.org/Jesus_Seminar/Remarks/remarks.html
"We are about to embark on a momentous enterprise. We are going to inquire simply, rigorously after the voice of Jesus, after what he really said.
In this process, we will be asking a question that borders the sacred, that even abuts blasphemy, for many in our society. As a consequence, the course we shall follow may prove hazardous. We may well provoke hostility. But we will set out, in spite of the dangers, because we are professionals and because the issue of Jesus is there to be faced, much as Mt. Everest confronts the team of climbers.
We are not embarking on this venture in a corner. We are going to carry out our work in full public view; we will not only honor the freedom of information, we will insist on the public disclosure of our work and, insofar as it lies within our power, we shall see to it that the public is informed of our judgments. We shall do so, not because our wisdom is superior, but because we are committed to public accountability."
I looked that passage up... it's
Romans 3:4 : )!
Trouble with the Jesus seminar is that they start out with the belief that not all "scripture is God-breathed"... Oh, well. I guess they're what happens when they "make sure the bible isn't an idol," as one Pastor put it to me once (and pissed me off in the process).
Huzzah for revisionist history.
yeah... definitely not all scripture... only 16-18% is true to them
I loved that Bible verse... Let the Lord be found true and every man be found a liar. I've taken it to heart, repeating it in class, when I walk, when I'm studying.. all the time. It's spoken truth to me -- and to my mind, which sometimes listens to faithless, groundless theories and begins to doubt. But I've chosen to believe, let them all be liars.
Es pues la fe la certeza de lo que se espera, la conviccion de lo que no se ve.
(Faith is the certainty of what one awaits for, the conviction of what cannot be seen)
Awesome.
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