Kamsaki
08-12-2005, 18:19
Yet another one of Kamsaki's trains of thought about to be blown way out of proportion...
Most Christians have a favourite book of the bible. Ask them which theirs is and you'll get an answer that may or may not have some sort of profound reason to them. However, experience has shown that you can tell a lot about someone's approach to spirituality from their answer to this question. For example,
Genesis / Psalms: This person looks at his or her faith from a very artistic perspective; they appreciate the stories, songs and metaphors as carrying some sense of applicable meaning for their lives. They might also be of a musical persuasion, but generally they just appreciate the more concrete and personal sense of God that comes from the personal expressions and myths of the Old Testament.
Exodus / Numbers / Chronicles of Israel (Judges/Kings etc.) / Revelation: This person has a somewhat political idea of God as a guider of society. They tend to be more overt with their sense of morality than many other Christians, and focus on the earthly repercussions of their faith as being of great importance.
Isaiah / the Prophets: This person tends to focus on Jesus as essentially proof of God. They, like John, see Divinity as the most important aspect of Jesus's life, Death and resurrection, and view it as evidence that the powers that be really do exist. However, this person might also place noteworthy importance on the Second Coming; a trait not so strong in NT Focus.
Synoptic Gospels: This person is a Jesus analyst, looking at his life and teachings as being of enormous importance in themselves. These are often the more moderate kinds of Christians, and there's a little tweak to each one that tells you a bit about their kind of preference for historical analysis.
John: This person focuses strongly on the interpretation of Jesus as the Divine Scapegoat, and probably feels a lot more strongly about otherworldly repercussions of their lives than the other gospels.
Epistles... Somewhere between the John group and the Politics group. (Getting a little tired of writing all these...)
Judging from what I've read so far in these boards, I reckon I'm going to get a lot of Johns, a lot of Romans-s and perhaps not as many Isaiahs. But let's hear it anyway; What's your favourite book and why?
Most Christians have a favourite book of the bible. Ask them which theirs is and you'll get an answer that may or may not have some sort of profound reason to them. However, experience has shown that you can tell a lot about someone's approach to spirituality from their answer to this question. For example,
Genesis / Psalms: This person looks at his or her faith from a very artistic perspective; they appreciate the stories, songs and metaphors as carrying some sense of applicable meaning for their lives. They might also be of a musical persuasion, but generally they just appreciate the more concrete and personal sense of God that comes from the personal expressions and myths of the Old Testament.
Exodus / Numbers / Chronicles of Israel (Judges/Kings etc.) / Revelation: This person has a somewhat political idea of God as a guider of society. They tend to be more overt with their sense of morality than many other Christians, and focus on the earthly repercussions of their faith as being of great importance.
Isaiah / the Prophets: This person tends to focus on Jesus as essentially proof of God. They, like John, see Divinity as the most important aspect of Jesus's life, Death and resurrection, and view it as evidence that the powers that be really do exist. However, this person might also place noteworthy importance on the Second Coming; a trait not so strong in NT Focus.
Synoptic Gospels: This person is a Jesus analyst, looking at his life and teachings as being of enormous importance in themselves. These are often the more moderate kinds of Christians, and there's a little tweak to each one that tells you a bit about their kind of preference for historical analysis.
John: This person focuses strongly on the interpretation of Jesus as the Divine Scapegoat, and probably feels a lot more strongly about otherworldly repercussions of their lives than the other gospels.
Epistles... Somewhere between the John group and the Politics group. (Getting a little tired of writing all these...)
Judging from what I've read so far in these boards, I reckon I'm going to get a lot of Johns, a lot of Romans-s and perhaps not as many Isaiahs. But let's hear it anyway; What's your favourite book and why?