Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Is Satan Blonde?

So I decided to give the bible study a second chance. The boy had so much fun in the nursery I wanted to let him have that again and I thought I should maybe grow up and just be cool with being around fundamentalists.
I am fine around fundamentalists as long as we don't discuss too much. Buzz Saw lady was there again, sitting RIGHT NEXT TO ME! I swear, I was really really really super tame, OK? But good old Psalms came up again and she said that the book of Psalms was a prophetic book. I couldn't help myself, and I said that while I think the writers of the psalms happened to get a few things right, they weren't prophets in the sense that Elijah or Daniel were or those guys...
Somehow this was threatening to her view of the bible so she spouts off "ALL SCRIPTURE IS GOD BREATHED! GOD TOLD DAVID WHAT TO WRITE!!!"
I just said "OK."
I wanted to run from there screaming, but I did not. Alas, I should have. Because after the "study" she cornered me and said "I looked that verse up and it's in the .....(a jewish prophetic book? something like that)...... so it IS prophetic!"
I told her I didn't mean to imply that God didn't inspire the writers of the bible, or that none of the Psalms were prophetic in retrospect but that they aren't written by prophets. David, when he wrote that particular Psalm didn't know he was prophesying.
I really tried to be polite and she would just not let it go so I said "It's OK... we don't have to figure this out or decide who's right. I'd like to drop it if you don't mind."
"We have to be right as christians, we do."
I said "Maybe you do. I don't. Have a nice week."
And I left.

My boy had a GREAT time again in the nursery. Buzz Saw showed up in the nursery later when I was on my way out the door and asked how my kid got such blonde hair.
I desperately wanted to tell her that he got it from SATAN, but I decided not to.

1 comment:

annie said...

Oh, you've gotten yourself in a bind, haven't you? Can you go and just not say anything? (I know, that would be hard!)