Do you have a pet peeve? Some odd little thing that gets under your skin? Something which rolls right off the back of most people, but drives you into temporary insanity?<\/p>\n\n\n
Someone popping bubble gum? The misuse of a particular word? (Like saying \u201cI could care less\u201d when you really mean \u201cI couldn\u2019t care less\u201d.) Cracking of knuckles? Chewing with the mouth open?<\/p>\n\n\n
For me, it is being late to a movie. I want to be early. I want to see every single trailer for coming attractions. If I miss even the first two minutes of a movie, I would rather turn around and go home.<\/p>\n\n\n
I remember walking in late to the first Lord of the Rings<\/i> movie. The theater was dark, there was a battle raging on screen, and a narrator already well into a lengthy explanation of the background story.<\/p>\n\n\n
And we had missed it! I did not even know how much I had missed \u2013 just that I had missed some key information. I was here to hear a story about delivering some sort of ring somewhere \u2013 a story that would stretch out over 3 movies totaling 9 hours – and I had missed the significance of the ring itself!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
When the DVD came out, I couldn\u2019t wait to see what I had missed.<\/p>\n\n\n
Why do I bring this up?<\/p>\n\n\n
It\u2019s because I see the Bible \u2013 Old Testament and New together \u2013 as being a single, coherent, epic story.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Now it\u2019s not quite the same as my experience with Lord of the Rings<\/i> in that EVERYONE has seen the opening of the Bible: \u201cIn the beginning the Lord created the heavens and the earth.\u201d And then the 6 days of creation are explained.<\/p>\n\n\n
But we\u2019ve been misdirected, somehow. Almost like instead of missing the opening of the Bible’s story entirely, we have accidentally watched the opening to some other movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
In the case of Genesis, the substituted opening so many modern Christians experience is more fitting for a “science” documentary filmed by the likes of Ken Hamm.: \u201cThe earth is only 6,000 years old because the 6 days of creation must be read as literal days. Genesis 1 and following genealogies explain the timeline for the age of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
And it should have raised our suspicions early on because it is not at all the way you would expect an epic to begin.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do you have a pet peeve? Some odd little thing that gets under your skin? Something which rolls right off the back of most people, but drives you into temporary insanity? Someone popping bubble gum? The misuse of a particular word? (Like saying \u201cI could care less\u201d when you really mean \u201cI couldn\u2019t care less\u201d.) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9102,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101\/revisions\/9102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}