Why Worship the Mediator?

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with my Hebrew Bible discussion group. I first posted about our initial discussions about truth. Since we’ve gotten through the source criticism of the Pentateuch one of the reflection questions, and rightly so since most of the department is MDiv, is how does this material change how you approach the Hebrew Bible? After warming up to the topic it seems that no one has shied away from it. That makes me happy. Everyday I get more and more faith and hope for this generation it seems.

I shared a very small bit that these are all things I had to ask and grapple with. And that is why I’m enrolled. Because the questions I had – particularly the answers I was given – were not satisfactory. They did not do justice to the evidence. I’d rather look at the historical figures for my faith, they were the ones that lived what got written down. Why worship the mediator?

Get behind the text. The text itself is not the object. The text merely stands as a the mediator to the referent at which it points. That is where the real work gets done.

Know Thy Enemy

In my estimation this is the best thing Jim West has ever written