How rich are you?

Have you ever compared your income to that of the rest of the world? Here is a chance for you to do so. Go to this website and include your annual income: www.globalrichlist.com
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Here is Tony and me at an Indianapolis Colts game on December 26, 2004. This is the game where Peyton Manning broke Dan Marino's single-season touchdown pass record when he threw his 49th of the season against San Diego Chargers.

Here is the view of the game from our seats.

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Who wrote the Bible?

In Reading the Bible Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg argues that there are three options in understanding the authorship of the Bible (page 21ff). Either God wrote the Bible, Man wrote the Bible, or both God and Man wrote the Bible. God cannot be the sole author of the Bible because of the obvious influence of the personalities and contexts of different people writing the many books of the Bible. Both God and Man can not be held equally responsible for writing the Bible because then the person has the impossible task of determining which texts are from which author. So, Borg concludes that only Man can be understood as the author of the biblical texts.

Instead of seeing the biblical texts as how God sees things, Borg recognizes that the biblical texts is how the ancient communities and writers see God. I agree with Borg in his description of the authorship of the biblical texts, but I wonder if his argument could be taken too far in a place where I would be uncomfortable. I do know that the biblical texts are from man's perspectives of the character of God, but I also claim that they are accurate descriptions of the character of God. With Borg's argument could someone argue that they have a more complete understanding of who God is; that the communities and cultures who wrote the biblical texts are mistaken in their understanding of God? I do not want to constrain the revelation of God found in the biblical texts to my own assumptions and biases of who I think God is. I want to allow the Scriptures and the Christian tradition challenge me in seeing God outside the box I continually try to restrain God in. Because man is the sole authorship of the biblical texts, one should not argue that the way a person understands God is more complete or accurate than the biblical texts. People of the Christian faith must continually allow the biblical texts to read and challenge themselves instead of only reading the texts within the limited assumptions of the reader.
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