In a message dated 1/8/2003 2:57:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In fact, sometimes I think if taken as a metaphor, some > stories are actually more powerful! This is true...take for example the story of Job, which most Biblical scholars agree is not an historical account but rather an epic poem dealing with the concept of "when bad things happen to good people". If you DO take it literally, then you're not as compelled to apply those lessons to your own life as you can be tempted to see it as a specific happening to one guy. By believing it to be metaphor (like Joni's song "Amelia", for example), it CAN be applied to your own life and has much more depth & power. > And here's where we agree, sort of. To me, God is in > everything. I am in awe of the power of creation and > feel I witness it every day. Truly. To me it's the greatest PROOF of God's existence. India Arie's latest CD has a song called "That's How I Know That God Is Real" that deals with the very topic. In my mind it takes a much greater stretch of the imagination to think that ALL around us just happened at random, like what are the odds of that? (Of course, I respect those who don't feel this way, I'm not a very good evangelist I suppose!) I think the miracles > are here and now, not at a specific moment or even > carried out by one or several particular saviors, > prophets, saints, etc. Again, I agree. Which is not to deny the miracles of Christ or of any other figure in any other faith, but to acknowledge that miracles do happen constantly. That God still talks to us, if we're willing to be prepared to listen. Bob NP: Dire Straits, "Brothers In Arms"
