How Normal Christianity Found In The Psalms Is An Urgent Need

By Mark Reed


Poetry once used to be the tribal communication module, a very ancient form of mnemonics with rhyme and metering. When history was the spoken word, it was important to couch it in easy to remember, and later iterations took in beautiful letters. Luckily, poetic techniques like rhyme also spelled the most beautiful ways of expressing concepts that could range from simple to complex.

From the earliest groups, Christianity was bequeathed the hearth laws, which were reasonable and also connected to universal laws. Many if not all of these in original verse would have a familial quality with normal Christianity found in the Psalms. It is not surprising to find how the concepts found there are a vital base for evolved laws and precepts found in New Testament.

The modern civilization referred here is probably the old Roman proconsulate of Iudea, which allowed a Jewish figurehead king. The laws were made over and adapted to that present. Beauty was made to come into the picture, with everything that the human mind could come up with, trying its best to imagine a heaven on earth creative by a civilization of the true and the law abiding.

These concepts took a couple of millennia to become a normal standard for most humans living on this planet. There were numerous wars, misfit generations, and loads of evil designs worked into kingdoms and empires, with attached wrongminded philosophies before humans awoke to what is right. Perhaps it took the bone mountains, blood rivers and shattered nations to hardwire tribal memories with the said concepts.

Normal Christianity is the total celebration of life, love and laughter. These values are primary ones in Psalms and the Songs of Solomon, no matter how the times called for David to gird his loins and be prepared to do battle to preserve the human paradise that he first conceptualized. The final redaction of his words was probably done during the ministry of Jesus.

Normal Christianity is tasked to accomplish a very hard task, that of being the steadfast connection to the historical continuity of living as peacefully and harmoniously as possible, something that is probably well accomplished. But contemporary concerns still have need of more things done. It means that Psalms is still the most basic dynamic for all Christians to access.

Studying the Psalms and relevant commentaries will be excellent. Because it has been redacted to address all the complex issues of that day, the Psalms have the flavor of maturity and wisdom that cannot be found in many Old Testament passages, even those that were originally done in verse. Poetics perhaps made a departure from this Biblical turning point, and the older oral histories without the beautiful element started being classified as verse.

Literature took off in many different directions from there, but many of these were often tied to the history of Christians. The faithful need to continuously study the part of the Bible discussed here. And the opportunity to be able to have a broader understanding of these is its own reward.

Perhaps the best Bibles available today are the NASB or the NRSV, and you can do some referencing with the King James Bible. The Good Books available nowadays are all standards in history or the academe. Copies of these are often distributed free by Christian missions.




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