Logos Dei
One part about being a fundamentalist Christian has long confused me: Which text do you believe? I remember inviting an Orthodox Jew to speak to my students about his faith. He pulled out his Torah and said, “When I read this, I’m reading the actual words of God.” His point was that God spoke Hebrew and when he read God’s word he read it in the original. A fundamentalist Muslim will tell you the same thing about the Koran, if he’s literate in Arabic. Why God would speak Hebrew first and then Arabic is a matter I leave to the Jews and Muslims. But why God’s words are still His when they’re written in English is a problem that I can bring some of my own expertise to, limited as it is, because I’ve spoken English all my life.
When I was in a public speaking class in high school, one […]
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