Toward a process of understanding the Bible

[zeek]

This discussion began on the virgin birth thread but seemed to have implications beyond that topic so I started a new thread.

Originally Posted by OBW

It is the modern mind that has forced historical accuracy onto any writing from much more than 500 years ago. Few writings were what we would accept as historically accurate in the earlier days. That does not make them lies or false. Rather it takes a different kind of process to understand what it is telling us. That does not mean that there are no historically accurate things recorded back then, in or out of the Bible. But which is which is not necessarily that easy to figure out. Yet even with that in mind, I see a picture of God that I find convincing.

Originally Posted by zeek

Exactly. So the question is : What "kind of process" is it?

Originally Posted by OBW

Not sure.

But I'm sure enough about what is taught to do (rather than to believe and/or argue about). And I am fairly comfortable that after believing, it is the doing that moves us forward, not more detailed believing. So I have less drive to figure out what it means to be a trinity, or God and man, or even how important the virgin birth is to me. Instead I have drive (not enough, but it is what I have) to live as I see I am commanded. That is what was demanded, not better doctrines.