Until Further Titling – Week Four: Proofs of God
Sometimes, I have my doubts about the numenous content of the bible. And I don’t mean about its truth, I mean about its potency. The phenomenal aspects of the lives of the prophets and other biblical subjects are very important as parallels and examples to our own lives, but the fantastical aspects of the bible I find somewhat lacking sometimes. If we truly do live in a world that is within a greater reality, why does all of the greater reality only come to us through our experience in this one? The experiences in the bible all relate to this world from the perspective of this world (why would we expect anything else, really?). There is a whole different reality out there, though, and for curious people like me, the bible doesn’t give a great taste of that for the most part…
The last book of the bible to be sidelined from the official canon as we have it today is the Book of Enoch. Many Church Fathers believed that it should have been included in the bible, but various councils and meetings resulted in its final exclusion. Luckily for us, it is still around, and I think that Catholics should read it. It is apocryphal, in a way that even Revelation can’t touch, and the mythology is as powerful as anything that we see in pagan traditions. You can google a link, or find a translation here. Bookmark it and give it a go when you have the time. It is one of the more theologically rich texts I have read in a very long time…
I will be adding this one to “Meet Me Halfway.”