Middle Son surprised me by standing today to bear his testimony. I'm not sure about his exigesis, but it was a nice and well spoken bit of wordery and here's a rough transcription:
The scriptures are like Jonah and the Whale. he jumped in the water because he didn't believe in God then the whale saved him anyway and I think that's like the scriptures because you can not believe them and then you read them and see they're true anyway.
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Never thought of the whale as saving him. I'm sure a whole sermon could be preached on that.
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ReplyDeleteIt's always good to defamiliarize the most familiar scripture stories.