“Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only “mouth honor” and that decreasingly. . . . It is, if you like to put it that way, not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite, it excludes or repels, the merely aesthetic approach.
You can read it as literature only by a tour de force. You are cutting the wood against the grain, using the tool for a purpose it was not intended to serve. It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long except to those who go to it for something quite different.” C.S. Lewis
The Bible is the manufacturers operating manual for fully living the spiritual life while in the physical world. The information contained therein may bring pleasure or pain, but it remains true regardless of how we react to it. For instance, we may not like to pay for gasoline, and we may not like to pump it into our cars, but failure to do so will render the car useless for transportation.
So it is with the Bible. We don’t get to choose which truth to accept and which to reject. Our only option is to read it with an open mind, a desire to learn and the will to follow it. Then, it will bring everything we need for our best good. Whether it what’s we want or not.
Seeing truth,
Z gardener
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