"seriously, one minute?"

so i was talking about this to some of the senior students here at North Florida and i was wondering what everybody else thought about this subject.

I recently was in the local christian book store and amongst all the self-help books and lame christian fiction, there were actually books that dealt with spiritual things in the back. I found one among the teen section and it was titled, "The One Minute Bible."

I thought to myself, "Self, who only has one minute a day to read the Bible?"

I mean seriously, who's so busy that they only have time for one minute a day for ninety days?

Let's look at it this way. There are 24 hours in a day. That means if there is 60 minutes in each hour, then there is (hold on while i pull up my calculator app) 1440 minutes each day. 1440 minutes a day for ninety days is 129,600 minutes. So, you take the 129,600 minutes for ninety days and subtract the 90 (one per day mind you) and you get a whopping total of 129,510 minutes where you're too busy for God.

Say what?

Look folks, that's cold hard data right there and if there's one thing i know is that cold, hard mathematical data doesn't lie (except when you get into algebra).

So i said all that to say this (the watered down version):

Is the "One minute bible" OK or just really a poor idea? Maybe I'm just being a super christian and saying we should spend more than one minute in God's word. Or maybe, this "bible" (and i use that term loosely) just isn't a good idea.

the what-if game...

I hate the "what-if" game. With a burning passion i hate it.

My wife loves the "what-if" game.

The "what-if" game is when you take one scenario and say, "What if this happened?" or "What if that happened?" My wife likes to do this to an extreme, such as, "What if...the car explodes and pieces fly all over the place and a little kid gets hurt?"

To which i reply, "What?"

Anyways, i don't doubt you know someone who plays this game, or even better, you yourself is a player of such game.

Because i love my wife, i have learned to tolerate this game, but there is one time i absolutely hate this game:

When it comes to theology.

You hear it a lot more these days. "What if Jesus said this?" Or "What if Jesus meant this?" Or "What if the Bible is really saying this?" Or my personal favorite, "What if that's not what the Bible says?"

It is so imperative that we read our bibles. Don't know what Jesus said or didn't say? Read your Bible. Not sure what exactly one passage means? Read the whole book. Not sure what the book is talking about? Read the whole Bible. Not sure what the whole Bible is saying? Check your christian pulse and see if you're really saved. Seriously.

God repeatedly says, "I AM THAT I AM, I AM the LORD I change not." He very clearly he never changes. In John 1:1 he very clearly states that He is His Word. So if the Bible is supposed to be "God's Word," why do we not read it and devour it?

There is no room for the "what-if" in theology.

Today we live in a post-modern world, where no one can no absolute truth. Well, while that's what the world tells us, I beg to differ. God gave us His Word, His promises and salvation. It's all there, just read it.