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Questions Week 12, Day 4

by David Joynt on July 19, 2017


 

HEBREWS 1:1-4

 

The scope of scripture also helps me trust its wisdom. The Bible has 66 books and includes material and insights from many eras and multiple cultural settings. The sheer scope and variety of it is staggering, as it covers millennia, but yet it remains a single story, about a single great character, our amazing God and his redemption of this world. No other volume has this diversity and this unity.

 

Moreover, the originality of the Bible impresses me. The gospels are a new form of literature, and within them the parables are a new kind of communication. The Bible’s narratives, even when they draw on universal themes or traditional material, are distinctive.

 

 

Have you ever thought about the marvelous diversity, unity, and originality of the Bible?

 

FAMILY TIME—

The  Bible is an ocean so deep scholars cannot reach the bottom and a play pool babies can paddle in!

What is deep and what is simple in the Bible?

 

Tags: bible, unity

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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