Over the years I’ve been doing Bard & Bible I’ve noticed some hermeneutical “lenses” I use to help me refresh my mind and challenge me to not simply drop back into the ruts of study and application that I know and have in my toolbelt like some sort of dollar store Bible Man. The one that has gotten the most use in this study of Genesis is “Remember this is a story about God.”
It’s not odd to think of God as an author of the Scriptures. It’s actually an important aspect of understanding them as a holy text. What can be interesting is to see God as an author from a more human perspective of the term – as one sitting over his desk with characters already written headed towards an ultimate climax, and parsing through the middle bits of getting folks from point A to point B.
So when I tell you that I read three audiences and participants in the story of Genesis 12 and tell you that God is wrapping those already there, those yet to come, and those living in the middle together in this one monumental event — I hope you find it as compelling a story as I did.
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