Around the Year with Emmet Fox - 21 September 2010
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Around the Year with Emmet Fox - 21 September 2010
SPIRITUAL LITERACY
The Bible is the most Precious possession of the human race. It shows us how to live. It meets everyone on his own level and brings him to God. Nevertheless, its real value lies in our interpretation of it.
Hear a Parable: A remote island was inhabited by highly intelligent savages. They had some primitive art and made excellent drawings of animals on the wall of caves. A box was washed ashore containing a a number of books, dry and in good condition. The natives were delighted and pored over these pages admiring the odd shapes and patterns made by the letterpress--totally unaware of the real meanings behind it all: unaware of the very existence of Falstaff, or Portia, or Hamlet; of Huckleberry Finn, and of the other characters who lived in the books.
If you have been reading the Bible without the spiritual interpretation you are in just that position.
Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures (Matthew 22:29)
The Bible is the most Precious possession of the human race. It shows us how to live. It meets everyone on his own level and brings him to God. Nevertheless, its real value lies in our interpretation of it.
Hear a Parable: A remote island was inhabited by highly intelligent savages. They had some primitive art and made excellent drawings of animals on the wall of caves. A box was washed ashore containing a a number of books, dry and in good condition. The natives were delighted and pored over these pages admiring the odd shapes and patterns made by the letterpress--totally unaware of the real meanings behind it all: unaware of the very existence of Falstaff, or Portia, or Hamlet; of Huckleberry Finn, and of the other characters who lived in the books.
If you have been reading the Bible without the spiritual interpretation you are in just that position.
Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures (Matthew 22:29)
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