My reading through the Bible recently took me to the book of Judges. What a wold ride that is. It has to be the most diverse, odd, inspiring, vulgar collections of stories. Its hard to tell who are the heroes and who aren't. Samson, the great man of God visiting a prostitute. A levite sends his concubine out to be gang raped. The execution of a whole community, man, women and child. The list goes on. Its hard to get a grip on what the whole point is. I think the key may be somewhere in the repeated phrase "and each man did what was right in his own mind." Here we see the results of man's desire for autonomy and rejection of any kind of collective, communal, revealed truth, ethics or morality. The situations in this book are the direct result of the sin of wanting freedom from God. How relevant is that to our own postmodern times!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Thoughts on the Book of Judges
My reading through the Bible recently took me to the book of Judges. What a wold ride that is. It has to be the most diverse, odd, inspiring, vulgar collections of stories. Its hard to tell who are the heroes and who aren't. Samson, the great man of God visiting a prostitute. A levite sends his concubine out to be gang raped. The execution of a whole community, man, women and child. The list goes on. Its hard to get a grip on what the whole point is. I think the key may be somewhere in the repeated phrase "and each man did what was right in his own mind." Here we see the results of man's desire for autonomy and rejection of any kind of collective, communal, revealed truth, ethics or morality. The situations in this book are the direct result of the sin of wanting freedom from God. How relevant is that to our own postmodern times!
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