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#507: O God of Light
Aug. 11th, 2019 05:23 pmWhich of the prophets wrote with "eager" and which with "reluctant pen"?
Unclear!
Paul seems to be on the eager side, he gets credit for a lot of the New Testament books. (Whether or not he actually wrote all of them is disputed.) Then again, sometimes he was in jail and had nothing else to do. David is credited with a lot of the Psalms, and he seems to have been very prolific and happy about it. The more reluctant ones are people like Moses and some other Old Testament prophets, who didn't really want to deliver God's word. In Moses' case it's because he just wasn't into public speaking; for some of his successors, it was more like "I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, the people are much more into false prophets who promise prosperity and glory than this vengeance and punishment stuff God is going on about." Sometimes the first five books of the Bible (Pentateuch) are called the "books of Moses," but on their own they don't really all seem to have been written by him.
Unclear!
Paul seems to be on the eager side, he gets credit for a lot of the New Testament books. (Whether or not he actually wrote all of them is disputed.) Then again, sometimes he was in jail and had nothing else to do. David is credited with a lot of the Psalms, and he seems to have been very prolific and happy about it. The more reluctant ones are people like Moses and some other Old Testament prophets, who didn't really want to deliver God's word. In Moses' case it's because he just wasn't into public speaking; for some of his successors, it was more like "I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, the people are much more into false prophets who promise prosperity and glory than this vengeance and punishment stuff God is going on about." Sometimes the first five books of the Bible (Pentateuch) are called the "books of Moses," but on their own they don't really all seem to have been written by him.
