Taken from: http://www.joolshamilton.com/blog/read.php?p=1721
I've been reading through the book of Proverbs - and I think I just had to tell someone, so I'm telling you ...
... I'm asking for your opinion ...
First, my love of & struggle with Scripture is well documented and healthy. I love this revelation of God, I love that we have to struggle with it, fight it, coax it and live with it. It is the living word never the last word, and so it demands respect and attention.
Second - the book of proverbs.
What?
So much of it seems nonsense ...
as a brief example - why would this appear in the story of God?
A quarrelsome wife
is like a constant dripping on a rainy day;
restraining her is like
restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.
In the grand scheme of recognizing the revelation of the great story of God and God's world, which I am now, at this moment in history living a part of ... then is this verse (which is by no means alone in 'what the? - ness') really the unraveling of judeo-christian wholeness to me?
I'd love a story or two to see I'm wrong - I'd quite like to discover that Proverbs is actually everyone's favourite and most meaningful and well used biblical literature. Because I'm finding it hard to find anything in it save a gathered collection of scattered ancient Mesopotamian wisdom sayings that mutter nonsense for the today of my life.
Harsh?
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