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As I was starting in on a new book, "Reading the Bible again; for the first time," by Marcus Borg, I was fascinated by one of his suggestions. This side note in his introduction was a suggestion that the binding together of all the manuscripts that make up the Bible is an indirect root cause to much of our current misunderstandings of the Bible. He suggests that because the Bible has been put together into one book, we can say that God wrote it.

This is significant because for most Christians throughout history, the Bible was not collected together into one book. The canon had established which manuscripts were accepted, but they were never bound together. His argument is that our desire to see the Bible as directly penned by the hand of God, has shielded us from an understanding of what the authors were actually trying to say.

Though I know that many of Borg's conclusions about the Bible I don't agree with, so far he has been clear, insightful and thought provoking. I look forward to reading the rest.