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Campfire Stories - The Origins of the Bible
http://stlukeumc.org/storiesaroundthecampfire/Summer Sermon Series
Many of the stories of the Bible were first told by story tellers around the village campfire. They were passed down from generation to generation by tribal storytellers until they were eventually written down and preserved in the form that we have them in scripture. Jesus, Himself, was a story teller. He taught in stories and parables. Usually he told his stories to large groups of people. However, he saved his hardest stories, his most difficult teachings, for the times around the campfire with just His disciples.
Many of the stories of the Bible were first told by story tellers around the village campfire. They were passed down from generation to generation by tribal storytellers until they were eventually written down and preserved in the form that we have them in scripture. Jesus, Himself, was a story teller. He taught in stories and parables. Usually he told his stories to large groups of people. However, he saved his hardest stories, his most difficult teachings, for the times around the campfire with just His disciples.
Iron Age campfire stories. That's where the Bible came from. It wasn't really magical. It wasn't really anything but stories told to pass the evening that illustrated some sort of lesson for people who couldn't read the written word. And, Mirabile dictu, we are still repeating those Iron Age stories, today, and still arguing about them.
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