some thoughts on the Bible

is the answer going to be all of one?
Some of both?
Or a new way to see both as one?

How esoteric/exotic did God really make me?
How many passions yet await me?

Evanescence – one moment it’s here, the next moment it’s gone

The Bible is about transformation. In everywhere except Ecclesiastes time proceeds linearly, but in Ecclesiastes time is cyclical, the past is forgotten. Shows you just how far you can get on wisdom, but there’s nothing worth working towards really so it isn’t worth it. Wisdom subverts everything, even itself.

Who does the Bible give authority to?
What sort of transformation is meant to occur between the Old Testament and the New?
How can a God who breaks his own commandments be just?
What is God’s personality?
What is God’s inner dialectic?

Human/God
Wicked/ righteous
Man/woman
Wise/foolish
Slave/master
Conscious/unconscious
Immoral/moral (amoral)
Dark/light (shadow)

The trickster is the one who blends dark and light, paints from both sides of the palette.

The messiah is chosen by God, they do not choose to be a prophet on their own:
See Isaiah, Jonah, Song of Songs

The image we have of God is better than the image God portrays of himself.

What is the function of sacrifice? To cause great pain and through the suffering of that pain turn to God. Methods for instilling the fear of God into the people: circumcision, sacrifice first born child.
God promises descendents to Isaac, then says to sacrifice him. WTF?

What if your faith requires you to do something that is not culturally acceptable?
If you follow the Bible too far, you will end up God knows where. Trust your sensitivities.

I admit that when I was younger and just coming onto the scene, the rational center of religion with it’s ultimately self explaining principals of goodness was a far goal to reach for but a good one worth coming up just a little short of even.