Incredible book. A Serrated Edge

This morning I started on and finished the first chapter of “ A Serrated Edge, a defense of biblical Satire and Trinitarian skylarking” by Douglas Wilson.

What he says about satire, fits in, with what is on our plates.
“...that the simple fact that the Bible contains such language is by itself entirely unconvincing. And this is because certain non-Christian assumptions have come to dominate how we read the Bible.

When Jesus looked on the rich, young ruler and loved him, it is very easy for us to say that we should be loving as He was. When preachers make such applications, no one thinks anything of it. But when Jesus looked on the rich, old rulers and insulted them, why do we tend to assume that this is never, ever to be imitated? It is conceivable that such a division is defensible, but why does it never have to be defended? Some might say (and do say) that we are not Jesus, and so we do not have the wisdom to insult properly. Fine. So why then do we have the wisdom to love properly? Can’t we screw that up too?

Instead of seeking to learn our paradigms of behavior from the Scriptures, we tend to bring our assumptions, learned elsewhere and from others, and view the Scriptures through those assumptions. This is not a superficial problem; it goes down to the bone....”

Emphasis mine. Can we let the Bible dictate everything? Only if we think it applies to everything. May it be so, more and more.