Why Do People Write About The Bible?
20 February 2007 dans All God's Advice, Professional Help, Scripture
Dear God,
I am a Christian, and an aspiring writer, but I have a kind of writer’s block. For a long time, I thought that I could put my two passions together and be a Christian writer. I went to college and took a lot of classes about religion, and prepared myself to professionally write about the Bible.
But then, I thought to myself, why write about the Bible? I mean, the Bible is the holy word of God, right? So, I figure, God, that you knew what you wanted to say when you wrote the Bible, and that’s why you chose to write the Bible the way that you did.
Isn’t it a kind of blasphemy to write about the Bible, trying to explain it in terms other than itself? The whole field of Bible studies is kind of an insult to you, isn’t it, God? It’s like saying that God didn’t write enough when he wrote the Bible, and that the way that God writes isn’t something that is something people can understand, like God is a great big babbler who requires interpreters.
I figure, if you needed to write anything more to make yourself clear, you would have. Am I right? If so, what should I write about now?
- Steven
Steven,
Yes, you’re right. It is blasphemy to write about the Bible or to engage in academic Bible Studies. Here you are though, writing about people who write about the Bible. That’s double blasphemy. You could say that I’m now writing about people who write about people who write about the Bible, and that it’s triple blasphemy, but I am God, and I get a special exemption.
I suggest that, instead of writing about my book, the Bible, you write about my holy painting. Yes, a lot of people know about the Word of God, but no one pays any attention to the Painting of God. It’s a pretty good painting too. It’s got a giraffe, and a volcano, and a field of flowers, and a man with a funny hat in it. How many paintings can you say that about?
Get to work, Steven.
- God