"Living the Bible"
Oct. 22nd, 2012 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiberaddictAli posted something earlier about a woman who is going thru the Bible, and "living" it. It seems like a rip-off of the guy who wrote "A Year of Living Biblically" a few years ago.....anyway, she was on Good Morning America this morning (or was supposed to be - we didn't watch it.)
I was thinking.....it seems to me that this is an effort by the Adversary to make the Bible look....silly. Unimportant. Because...if you just start in Genesis and "live" by what it says, it looks pretty bizarre. Especially when you do it willy-nilly...the way the author did (and the way it appears that this lady is doing.)
I mean....why now? Why, in trying to live a Biblical life (which IS possible, and it's possible to do it without looking as odd as these 2 people do.), do you do things a) publicly (by this I mean, with media attention) and b) by changing some things so that it's *totally* bizarre-looking to even Bible-believers?
(The author did some really bizarre things - he took the verses in Deut. about "bind this on your hand", which is where tefillin comes from), but instead of binding the VERSES on his hand, he tied a wad of cash. :scratches head: (And....most non-Jewish scholars say that this section is poetic language. I don't know enough to know if this interpretation is correct or not - but I do know that CASH wasn't what was meant here!)
It's just....something I'm pondering today. Because it feels "off", the way these 2 are going at it.....(probably because they've removed God from the equation.)
I was thinking.....it seems to me that this is an effort by the Adversary to make the Bible look....silly. Unimportant. Because...if you just start in Genesis and "live" by what it says, it looks pretty bizarre. Especially when you do it willy-nilly...the way the author did (and the way it appears that this lady is doing.)
I mean....why now? Why, in trying to live a Biblical life (which IS possible, and it's possible to do it without looking as odd as these 2 people do.), do you do things a) publicly (by this I mean, with media attention) and b) by changing some things so that it's *totally* bizarre-looking to even Bible-believers?
(The author did some really bizarre things - he took the verses in Deut. about "bind this on your hand", which is where tefillin comes from), but instead of binding the VERSES on his hand, he tied a wad of cash. :scratches head: (And....most non-Jewish scholars say that this section is poetic language. I don't know enough to know if this interpretation is correct or not - but I do know that CASH wasn't what was meant here!)
It's just....something I'm pondering today. Because it feels "off", the way these 2 are going at it.....(probably because they've removed God from the equation.)
~ali
Date: 2012-10-22 05:32 pm (UTC)yeah...that is weird.
you know what just occured to me?
Honestly - I am trying to live biblically - not doing a great job at it, but when people ask me why I do "jewish stuff" I tell them I am not doing jewish stuff - I am doing "biblical stuff"
But now when I tell people that - they are going to get an image of this crazy lady they saw on the today show and think - oh that is one of those stupid people - Ali is doing that because she saw some girl on TV and wants to be a copy cat -
you wanna make me dislike you in an instant(not you personally - any random person I mean)... suggest that I am doing something because I want to be a copy cat. Because I saw it on TV. because it is popular now.
because I want attention. Um no.
When people are told to be a light to the nations I am pretty sure a rainbow blinking neon floodlight is not the right kind of light.
I always wonder what people who write books about God and the bible do with the money?
Re: ~ali
Date: 2012-10-22 05:45 pm (UTC)Re: money..I assume that most of them keep it. At least, the guys like the author I mentioned above. I would think sincere Believing authors would donate most of it....but I might just be naive.
Re: ~ali
Date: 2012-10-23 02:47 pm (UTC)