I'm writing over at Life on a Hill today...
Like many people growing up, I heard a lot of Bible stories. I attended church with my family. I attended Bible school (similar to Sunday school) and scripture classes at school. My parents read the Bible and/or Bible stories with me at home. I had a head crammed with Bible knowledge. I was one of the kids who knew all the answers in Scripture and Bible school. (If in doubt, just answer 'God', 'Jesus' or 'the Bible' right?).
But, there was always something I never really understood. I sometimes wondered how all those stories fit together. What does a young boy killing a giant (David and Goliath) have to do with Jesus? Or, what does a man with a colourful coat and jealous brothers (Joseph) teach me about God? And, what was the go with all that slaughtering of animals in the first half of the Bible? Isn't that a bit barbaric? In what order did all these things happen, and why? ... Click here to read the rest at Life on a Hill
