Quote of the Day

The individual books of the Bible themselves do not have the same audiences. That is, the "Y-O-U" of each book is often different from each other. Ken Schenck

It is a simple point, and for many of us it is obvious and may even seem scarcely worth mentioning. But it needs to be mentioned because a lot of readers miss this crucial insight. Not only should we not treat the Bible as written to ourselves, we also should not read the Bible as though it were addressing the same people throughout. And that means that we ought not think that we have discovered "the Bible's answers" when similar-sounding things are said in multiple places. Because the same thing, said in a different context, can have different connotations.