How many old texts do you know? And just how
old? May be you are familiar with Shakespeare’s
plays or Pilgrim’s Progress, or possibly with Aristotle or Plato. In your eyes does a recent writer have books that
you would regard as old and dated: Carol Ann Duffy or Ian Hislop –do they stand
the test of time? What weight in all
this would you put upon scripture? Does age invest it with knowledge and status
in your view? Calvin would argue that it
does alongside its nature as the inspired Word of God, distilled through
fallible human writers. How can this
view assist us in a world where the written word in a book is often disregarded
in preference for tweets and anything electronic. Are these not ephemeral pieces of social
media? Can we use them to illustrate what a rich treasure we have in the corpus
of scripture?
