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Is life as simple as knowing what is good and right and then doing it? Borg says that life is much more complicated and mysterious than that!
In this podcast, as we explore chapter 7 of Borg's "Reading the Bible Again for the First Time," we take a fascinating tour through Israel's Wisdom literature: the Book of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Book of Job. Borg explains the difference between the kind of Conventional Wisdom we find in Proverbs and the more "Subversive" or "Alternative" Wisdom we encounter in Ecclesiastes and Job. He also invites us to consider whether ours is a "firsthand religion" or a "secondhand religion". Is our faith based on what others have told us about God or about our own personal experience of God -- or both?
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By Sheila Macgregor
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In this podcast, as we explore chapter 7 of Borg's "Reading the Bible Again for the First Time," we take a fascinating tour through Israel's Wisdom literature: the Book of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Book of Job. Borg explains the difference between the kind of Conventional Wisdom we find in Proverbs and the more "Subversive" or "Alternative" Wisdom we encounter in Ecclesiastes and Job. He also invites us to consider whether ours is a "firsthand religion" or a "secondhand religion". Is our faith based on what others have told us about God or about our own personal experience of God -- or both?