Literal?

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from David Teems' site:

http://www.davidteems.com/devotional/january/january18.html

In the beginning was the Word… John 1:1 NKJV


Some say scripture is literal, that every word is exact in meaning, set in its proper and unquestioned place. Some say metaphorical, allegorical, symbolic, or parabolic. Perhaps the truth lay closer to the seams, the commas, the sheer connective tissue that binds these elements together, so that scripture can be said to be all of these and still remain consistent with itself, and faithful to the truth we seek within its margins. Mystery is the paste that sticks them together, the place where God hides Himself. The lover will understand. He thinks he’s listening to music anyway.

In Christ, where God hides Himself, Amen

May the Gospel in you be so casual, so loving, so alive, so warm and palpable, so easy in you, so much your natural response to life, so evident, so filled with concord, so sweet with otherness, so joyfully fluent in you, that agreement seems to follow you about, happy in your service, so much that it must sing or be silent.

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