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November 05, 2004
Reading the doc
During the training on problem solving this week, I realized it's time for the doc guy to start reading the doc. So I tried reading the book of Job.
God must have realized his readers, centuries later, would have trouble making heads or tails of His work. My copy is the NRSV, so it's language I should be used to.
Then I saw in Mark 4:10-13:
When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables. And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in parables; in order that'they may indeed look, but not perceive, and may indeed listen, but not understand; so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.'"And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?"
Is Jesus teasing me? Or does he expect me to know Isaiah 6:9-10:
And he said, "Go and say to this people:'Keep listening, but do not comprehend; keep looking but do not understand.' Make the mind of this people dull, and stop their ears, and shut their eyes, so that they may not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and comprehend with their minds, and turn and be healed."
There's quite a bit of context with which I need to familiarize myself.
Posted by Mark at November 5, 2004 09:57 PM