In Greek mythology, Pandora was given a beautiful golden box as a wedding gift from the gods. The gods told her never to open it. However, on her wedding day, she was also given the beautiful/horrible gift of curiosity. This was all Zues’s cruel plan for personal revenge.
Eventually, Pandora could no longer keep herself from the box. She opened the lid, just a little bit, and all the evils of the world spilled out: greed, theft, lies, jealousy, sickness, death - every evil thing imaginable poured out into the air and into the world before Pandora could close her box.
In our Gospel lesson today, Jesus tells us that the real God has also given us a kind of box - the Bible.
Read Matthew 5:17-45.
So here is the Bible, this box that God has given us. It is beautiful and valuable, but how does it work? And how do we work with it? And how does the Old Testament fit with the New Testament? And how does the Bible fit with our lives today?
But here’s the real difficulty in understanding this box that we have as the Bible. Jesus seems to contradict himself. ...
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