Are you looking for ways to refresh the way your community uses the Bible?
The Bible is beautiful: it contains wisdom, humour, great stories and deep comfort. But it is a strange book, and not necessarily easy to use. This is the reality of dealing with such a set of ancient texts, but sometimes it feels like we must be doing something wrong.
Part of the challenge is that the Bible is full of paradoxes. It doesn’t always make sense in a simple way. Different aspects of it can seem contradictory, and yet true.
Six Bible paradoxes
This course aims to explore six of these paradoxes. It aims to encourage us to keep reading the Bible, and to resist the temptation to jump to one pole of the paradox or the other. Good news can appear when we embrace the mystery and give it space to breathe
- Whose word is it? God's word, or human words?
- Is the Bible trustworthy? Is it flawless, or inconsistent?
- Did it really happen? Is it fact or fiction?
- Is the Bible clear? Or is it opaque?
- Is it a rule book? It is limiting or liberating?
- Is it relevant today? is it just written for then, or does it apply now?
