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What is it about art that arrests our attention? Classical art attempts to capture for all time something that is good, beautiful and true by presenting it as really is. We try to give modern art the benefit of the doubt by assuming that it captures the same thing and asks that we search for it in the chaos. Possibly the search for truth, goodness and beauty has value in and of itself.
The Bible presents us with some of the loftiest images we will ever behold painted with words instead of acrylics or watercolors. The Beatitudes, Gethsemane, the Psalms, Creation all do precisely what great art does to us. We respond with "That's really something. I'd like to look at this again someday and perhaps value it even more."
That may be a suitable reaction to Renoir, Monet or van Gogh, but is that really how we should regard the word paintings of God? Surely, we desire to visit the scenes from the Bible again and again and we hope to have a deeper appreciation for the truth they contain, but can that really be the end purpose of our encounters with the word of God?
Might we not do better to regard God's word as a video game rather than a museum filled with inspirational artwork? A video game demands some sort of reaction on our part or the game will end quickly. And it cannot be some haphazard reaction but must be one that is specific and appropriate to the situation.
The only instruction received in a museum is to not touch the artwork. A video game says to get involved, to affect the virtual world it presents on the screen. The Bible exhorts us to do the same thing in the real world. Does our experience with God have the feel of a museum or of a video game?
James 1:22- "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."
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This is amazing. I've never thought of the Bible this way. Some people are like the man who saw his image in a mirror as in James 1:24. I know my experience is like a video game,but this video game is absolutely uncontrollable. Sometimes it's all I can do to hang on. Thanks,
Mark