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In the country, chickens cross the road all the time. This isn't a secret, nor a mystery. But which chicken is THE chicken? It is the one that didn't make it, and it's carcass still lies in the road. | In the country, chickens cross the road all the time. This isn't a secret, nor a mystery. But which chicken is THE chicken? It is the one that didn't make it, and it's carcass still lies in the road. | ||
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Now we can understand that when a dead chicken is seen in the road, the riddle is asked, and the answer is, "He wanted to die" worded as "To get to the other side." | Now we can understand that when a dead chicken is seen in the road, the riddle is asked, and the answer is, "He wanted to die" worded as "To get to the other side." | ||
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The genre of the Bible is like the chicken riddle. If you read it literally, you don't really understand it. | |||
|The Bible has been read literally and produced thousands of literal answers which cannot be tested for truth. The use of Greek philosophy, rhetoric and debate does not produce truth; but merely gathers followers to the more cleaver debater. The literal answers seem plausible, as scholars attempt to tease out the author's intended meaning. By doing so they become hostile to God's word. They ignore his stated purpose that all the scriptures speak of Christ. | |||
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The apostle Paul said that the mystery had been hidden from the beginning. But the scholars become hostile in their declaration that there is no mystery and the Bible is plain. They even have a word for it: perspicuity. | The apostle Paul said that the mystery had been hidden from the beginning. But the scholars become hostile in their declaration that there is no mystery and the Bible is plain. They even have a word for it: perspicuity. | ||
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God told Israel that they would become a parable to the nations. Their history is a parable of Christ, yet the scholar becomes hostile saying it is merely a literal history. God taught of Christ in the parable of the history of Israel so that they would not believe. He hid his teaching in riddle. | God told Israel that they would become a parable to the nations. Their history is a parable of Christ, yet the scholar becomes hostile saying it is merely a literal history. God taught of Christ in the parable of the history of Israel so that they would not believe. He hid his teaching in riddle. | ||
The scholar tells us Jesus was a good teacher. What kind of good teacher teaches so that his students do not understand? He was not a good teacher. He was a most superb teller of riddles in parables. <ref>{{bgw| Ps 78:2 }} I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:</ref> | |The scholar tells us Jesus was a good teacher. What kind of good teacher teaches so that his students do not understand? He was not a good teacher. He was a most superb teller of riddles in parables. <ref>{{bgw| Ps 78:2 }} I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:</ref> | ||
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His teaching in riddle could not be understood until something outside the riddle was known. One had to know that "the other side" is a euphemism for death to solve the chicken riddle. One has to know about the cross to understand the parable of Christ in the Old Testament record. The cross is the key to understanding his teaching. The genre of the Bible is a prophetic riddle hidden in the literal historic record. And now we hold the keys to unlock the mystery. | His teaching in riddle could not be understood until something outside the riddle was known. One had to know that "the other side" is a euphemism for death to solve the chicken riddle. One has to know about the cross to understand the parable of Christ in the Old Testament record. The cross is the key to understanding his teaching. The genre of the Bible is a prophetic riddle hidden in the literal historic record. And now we hold the keys to unlock the mystery. | ||
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