People keep telling me not to discuss theology.
Well, you know how us kids are. The more people dictate at me about theology the more I think about it.
Speaking of kids, ever since I was a preteen, two questions in the Bible, far, far apart, have always struck me as twins:
“Am I my brother’s keeper?” and “What is truth?” I always felt of them as twins because:
1) Each was spoken directly to God:
2) Neither was answered by God; and
3) The reason that neither was answered by God was because they were not questions;
4) Each time the person “asking” the “question” was not asking, but desperately trying to wash his hands of murder.
#1 by H.S. on 11/27/2004 - 12:26 am
Kids love lots of questions, and forbidden fruit.
“… desperately trying to wash his hands of murder” ? Here we are again – if it weren’t God’s Word, who would care.
Well, were you ever a bit of a smartmouth rebel preteen boy? That really appears to be the context for both of them. If you’re willing to accept those words, then the context matters also. Yeah, two smartmouth comments from two 1st degree homicide perps. The “questions” weren’t meant to get answers. They were character statements and set the scene for why God recorded it. They quipped them without fear the same as any cop hears on the street or many parents get in their own homes. So what was the context? It reveals truth & Truth that everyone has the same access to. Context:
Genesis 4: 8,9 & 10 Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” And the LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
And then his punishment was meted out and he *whined* about that too it reads.
John 19: 37-39 Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all. “But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover.
To here for your key words: Matthew 27: 22 Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let Him be crucified!” Then the governor said, “Why, what evil has He done?” But they cried out all the more, saying, “Let Him be crucified!” When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it.”
“… desperately trying to wash his hands of murder.” ? Well, I think his conscience was on fire, but was probably more concerned his wife was going to be really upset when he went back into the house – but it led to the fulfilled prophecy. But, whatdoIknow – without being IN Christ Jesus, absolutely nothing but a few facts and figures and grandiose thoughts we all learn to get through the hard knocks of life. Mathematics, creative Truth of God, it’s got to be right, or it doesn’t work precisely right, people don’t have a problem with that part of His revealed truth.