Comments on: Exegetical Sketches: Bad Boy Bible Study

By: clayboy » Bewailing her virginity

clayboy » Bewailing her virginity — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:53:53 +0000

[...] from being the most edifying story in the Bible, and even more of a contender for David Ker’s Bad Boy Bible study than Elisha and the bears. Coming up with a short reflection was made even more complex by the [...]

By: Exegetical Sketches: Their story. Our story. God’s story | lingamish

Exegetical Sketches: Their story. Our story. God’s story | lingamish — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:55:15 +0000

[...] Exegetical Sketches: Bad Boy Bible Study: This is where I turned up the heat and started getting some criticism. [...]

By: 2 Kings 2:23-24 Bald-headed Elisha and the vicious bear mauling « New Epistles

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:22:51 +0000

[...] bible study by Kevin A. Sam David Ker of the Lingamish blog has just begun a series called the Bad Boy Bible Study. The reason for his study series can be capitulated in the first paragraph of his recent post [...]

By: clayboy » Baldy, bad boys and the big bear: a strange Bible meme

clayboy » Baldy, bad boys and the big bear: a strange Bible meme — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:44:34 +0000

[...] Ker has followed up his bad boy bible reading approach with a reading of this classic story from the Elisha [...]

By: Kevin Sam

Kevin Sam — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:06:23 +0000

David, I love what you said in the first paragraph:
“The best way to get a handle on interpreting the Old Testament is to repaint the heroes as villains. ”

I think by bringing our heroes ‘back down to earth’, the law becomes more apparent so that God can use the preached word of the gospel to do its work. The whitewashing of the text prevents us from seeing ourselves as we really are, that is, as sinners.

I’ve looked at some of the heros in Judges but now I’d put them in the ‘bad boys’ category. Thanks for this series of bible studies.

By: Bad Boy Bible Study meets Ship of Fools | lingamish

Bad Boy Bible Study meets Ship of Fools | lingamish — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:22:59 +0000

[...] a follow-up to Exegetical Sketches: Bad Boy Bible Study, I’ve selected a passage from the Chapter & Worse project at Ship of Fools and will show how [...]

By: John Hobbins

John Hobbins — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:48:34 +0000

Modern Christians prefer to kill their enemies by means of unmanned drones and high altitude bombers and through the amenities of bunker busters, cluster bombs, cruise missiles, atomic and nuclear weapons (or the threat thereof). “Just drop the bomb.” Remember that song?

Such means are a bit indiscriminate, and are known to kill non-combatants in droves, but they beat slingshots, spears, and swords – the latter
do not kill fast enough, and are not very hygienic.

The really important thing, as everyone knows, is to have no blood on your hands. That’s the magic trick.

Nor do modern Christians wait for the Holy Spirit to fall upon them in order to kill. The wait is too long. It’s too hit-and-miss. They just press a button from some place in Florida 2000 miles away from the target, all the while chatting up their girlfriend or playing a videogame.

We do our killing, and we live and let die, without “Christ in us.”

This you call progress.

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:44:54 +0000

Last time I checked, nor had Lady Diana joined the Democrat Party.

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:32:23 +0000

I’m not saying that modern Christians claim a superiority over saints of old but that Christ in us is superior to the previous option which was something along the lines of “the spirit comes upon you once in a while so you can kill a lot of heathen and the rest of the time you kill goats to get close to God.” The Good News is incomparably preferable because of Christ not Christians.

By: John Hobbins

John Hobbins — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:53:10 +0000

Hi Kurk,

You say:

“I don’t see Joshua (aka Jesus) or the Holy Spirit as Republicans of any kind.”

Great comeback. I couldn’t agree more. Last time I checked, neither J nor HS had joined the Democrat Party either.

It’s Os Guinness who wrote a book entitled “The Dust of Death.” An Obama supporter, I believe, but that’s besides the point.

No matter who you support in politics, you sin greatly. It’s the nature of the enterprise.

By: J. K. Gayle

J. K. Gayle — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:07:25 +0000

John,

Now you are sounding like Francis Schaeffer (”Death in the City”) to me. Or like Larry Norman (who used to sing, “Nothing really changes… If people then could live today, I wonder what they’d be… Would Aristotle be an acid head?”).

I do agree with you in your doubt some – but I also think the parable we call “Wheat and Tares” leaves a lot of room to doubt a lot of our labels for other people. And then again, I don’t see Joshua (aka Jesus) or the Holy Spirit as Republicans of any kind.

By: John Hobbins

John Hobbins — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:41:20 +0000

Kurk,

And what if contemporary culture is best compared to the dust of death?

If only it had more of the heroic culture of Homer and David in its veins. If only it had more of the blessed rage for order of Plato and Aristotle, Paul and Peter, in its veins.

Instead, we have the culture of George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Lady Diana, Barack Obama, and Nancy Pelosi. Very nice people, don’t get me wrong. Jet setters one and all, eye candy, finding time for Africa, permissive and tolerant: model human beings, not a mean Republican among them. But is it progress? Is it evidence of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit? I thoroughly doubt it.