February 11, 2010

What Did You Hear

It’s interesting how two people can hear the same sermon and each leave with a different take-away. Similarly, a friend mentioned a meeting where two people told her differing accounts of the same event. “It’s like they were at two totally different meetings.” Today’s journalists don’t agree even when they’re reporting the news…and that’s with the cameras is rolling. It makes it all the more profound that the four Gospel writers are in almost complete agreement with what they saw, heard and recorded. What are the odds of that?

1 comment:

Steve Corey said...

Gail;

-----You appropriately stated that the Gospels are in almost complete agreement. A few minor details of a few of its accounts offer some challenging discrepancies. Besides these, there are a number of minor textual discrepancies between the earliest manuscripts and copies of the Bible. Many people have made much ado over these flaws, trying to make believe that none of what the Bible claims about God and Christ is true because of them. Yet these same people are certain hurricane Katrina happened in spite of the discrepancies between all the reporting of its details.
-----“Oh!” they are sure to exclaim, “The Bible claims inerrancy, so one glitch in the Bible spoils its whole claim. But the reporters made no such standard for themselves. They are excused.”
-----The Bible claims to be the inspired Word of God. That is message. It does not claim either textual inerrancy or meticulously accurate details. That is diction. At the heart of the Bible’s message is that God is true though all men are false. The fallacious logic of the Bible’s detractors bears witness to this accuracy of its message.

Love you all,
Steve Corey