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The Bible as the Memory of God’s People

Pabillo, B. (1994). The Bible: 100% Divine 100% Human. Makati, Metro Manila: Salesiana Publisher, pages 33-55)

Books are privileged memories of peoples. In books are preserved the events, persons and circumstances that formed a people and gave identity to them. By reading these books, the people become more aware of who they are and what they are for.

A people does not start its history writing books. It first experiences, then it remembers, and finally it puts its remembrances in books as lessons and reasons for life for the coming generations. The same is true of the Bible. In it are recorded remembered events that helped shaped the people of God. In general, then, there are three moments in writing down the books of the Bible:

1. the moment of lived experiences

2. the moment of remembering

3. the moment of writing.

Taken in themselves, the events narrated in the Bible seem to be trivial, or even meaningless. It is when they are seen together and with the eyes of faith and love that they become meaningful and very significant.