tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post2863217045419095299..comments2024-03-29T04:31:15.219-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: What it is not vs what it is. . . Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-62306825261437912892016-04-01T12:35:25.085-05:002016-04-01T12:35:25.085-05:00This is my best effort to help those poor souls wh...This is my best effort to help those poor souls who still try to evaluate the New Testament by being didactic, I think the following states my thoughts as of today. Leon Stier on Sept. 7, 2015 blogged: This is illustrated in an old story. You may have heard it before. I’ve seen it in many books, some from as far back as 150 years ago. It is an illustration that I have found helpful in my own approach to the faith.<br /><br /> Two men are sitting next to each other in a train. One is reading his Bible, the other is eating a fish dinner. The man eating the fish said to the man reading the Bible, “Have you read that whole book?”<br /><br /> “Yes I have,” said the man with the Bible.<br /><br /> “Do you believe it all?” was the next question.<br /><br /> “Yes I do,” said the man with the Bible.<br /><br /> “But do you even understand it all?” asked the questioner.<br /><br /> “No, I sure don’t,” said the Bible reader.<br /><br /> “Well,” said the man eating his dinner. “What do you do about those parts you don’t understand?”<br /><br /> “Well,” said the man reading the Bible, “I do what you are doing as you eat that fish. I have noticed that when you come across a bone, you set it aside, and get on with eating the good meat of the fish. You don’t insist on choking on the bones, do you? And I don’t choke on those parts of the Bible I don’t understand. Rather, I set those parts aside, at least for the time being, and I go on and learn from and obey those parts that are clear to me and that I do understand.”<br />ErnestOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13077415409728022160noreply@blogger.com