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\"\"<\/a>I love Bible study, and bemoan the ever-increasing biblical illiteracy that pervades the modern church.<\/p>\n

But the following quote from\u00a0S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard from his book,\u00a0Provocations<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0made me stop and think a bit. Is he right? Could it be that we do not have too little knowledge, but too much, and the\u00a0correction is not to learn more, but simply to follow\u00a0what we already know?<\/p>\n

Here is what he says:<\/p>\n

The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obligated to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. \u201cMy God,\u201d you will say, \u201cIf I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world?\u201d<\/p>\n

Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the church\u2019s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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