There is no time

Bosco Peters gives an excellent summary of inspiration in a post entitled Which Bible is Inspired. It's a really helpful way for me to think about why this or that collection of texts seems to work the way it does -- as does the liturgy, I might add.

This God-breathed word is like bringing the creation of Adam into today. As well as the creation of Eve --  and why I'm at it, why not murder - are not Cain and Abel with us today, confusion (not hard to imagine how Babel relates to our politics and our personal mumblings to each other), and natural disaster -- wake up, Rip van Winkle, the climate is changed. 

I wonder if we together today will allow the God who breathes us into life to make such equality possible -- in our time -- within our multifarious 'throats'. I woke up mute after a day of disagreeable things with Qohelet 3 on my mind. And I thought - there is no time. I was definitely feeling out of season. So I am looking for this life-giving breath in us all together as we get through the very troubling era that is present to us. 

Richard Beck continues to post very helpful theology. This one on virtue in non-believers is good like that first chapter of Genesis all of which is present to us, each day unfolding to our hearts. And as Herbert says - we count 300 but we misse - there is but one, and that one ever. Even if ever is a time-laden word. And I think the phrase non-believer is off base to use another metaphor. There must be hosts of people with other beliefs than mine, whatever they are, that I am working with and mutually dependent on.