What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
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The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else.
The word of God is a Christian's instructions for life. God speaks to us through His word, so we cannot constantly be running on empty.
The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.
God's word is always effective and produces whatever it expresses. My words, on the contrary, cannot create anything; I can only change what already is into something else.
Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'
The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.
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