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Closing Remarks - by Michael Phillips
| | Study in Thessalonians - Sermon 10 of 13 |  |
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A couple of years ago, I wrote a booklet of thirty or thirty-five pages. After running a spell check and proofreading it several times, I turned it over to a friend for final editing. Of course, I knew it wasn't perfect, and I thought she'd make, oh, half a dozen corrections. And I was right: that's what she did: half a dozen corrections…per line! The problem with my booklet, you see, is that it wasn't formal enough; it came across like a conversation, with thoughts put down as they occurred to me, and not in a strictly logical and orderly fashion. I agree with my editor. That's how books ought to be written. But 1 Thessalonians is not a book, it's a letter. This allows Paul to be chatty to write things as they come to mind, and to not worry about order and balance and so on. What we have in the last verses of the Letter is a jumble of things things Paul wanted to say, but either forgot about until the end, or he couldn't find a better place to put them. And so, he tacks them on at the end. Someone might think this informal tone undermines Inspiration, but I say it strongly supports it. If you ever want to read a 'holy' book that is plainly uninspired, try The Prophet by Khalil ... More >>>
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