(insert whitty quip about context here)

Timing is everything. It's true, someone could have the most brilliant, perception shattering, hope inspiring thing to say, but if they can't find the right timing, the right context in which to say it it doesn't matter.

This goes for the bible too. This book was written during a certain time, i a certain context and with certain assumptions of what the reader would know and interoperate. We forget that a lot of the time, wanting to believe that this book fell from the heavens like manna from the lips of God.

But it wasn't. It was written by men, in a culture, with motives and purpose, and God inspires and uses that. But still...there's context. Without that we miss a lot. In fact, without it i think my may miss the real message. It gets lost in a flurry of pop-culture religion focused on this overarching theme of individualism and morality.

I guess what i'm trying to say ( it always seems to change as i write on here) is that I think the history of the bible and the cultures it was written in is devastatingly important, and i need to learn much more of it.
And also this election has made me think of some things that i was going to write, but i'm afraid that it'll just come off as for or against a certain candidate campaigning. That the message of what i'm really trying to convey will get lost in the context of everything that is happening. So i'll wait.

until wednesday.