Christian Radio

I turned on my mom's radio today which was on a Christian talk radio. It caught my attention immediately where this Pastor was speaking on the Bible. His view of the gospels were that they written were as though the writers were reflecting back on what happened and for instance, the gospel of John isn't in chronologial order merely because he didn't remember when everything happened.
Are you f'ning kidding me?!

The authors of the Bible write specifically to the issues of their time.

For example, the first three mircales in the book of John are directly related to the three major gods of Asia Minor, the region John writes his gospel to. Dionysus was the god who turned water into wine, Asclepius was the god of healing, and Demeter was the goddess of bread. John directly begins his story with Jesus turning water into wine, healing, and then feeding thousands of people, he wanted to show those people at that time that Jesus is better then those gods.


THEEEEENNNN
they were talking with another caller about woman's roles in the church and at the end the Pastor said,
"I'm glad you're in the right, by believing in what we believe".

So, since I didn't agree with what they said, does that mean I am in the wrong?

The Bible is a book that is not black and white, it is letters, poems, stories, all breaking down the social and polital barriers of it's time. It's a book that contains many writings throughout history, collected and translated, some stories written down many years later. It has context and background, refrences to the Jewish religion and culture, mistranslations that we need to keep looking at it in a different light.


As GOB would say, "Oh, C'mon!!".