The Meaning Making of Biblical Narratives

We are all ignorant about God and Jesus is going to inform how we should be thinking about who God is. And another point, remember that the biblical narratives, both the Old Testament and the New Testament were read aloud to audiences before they were written down. So just like a dramatic film in a theater and you sort of feed off the energy of fellow audience members or just as you see a comedy in a film and you laugh harder because you're in a theater watching with friends,. That's part of the meaning making that filmmakers know they're putting in to their work. The same is true of biblical writers and of biblical texts. They're anticipating reactions and those anticipated reactions are part of the mean