BIBLE

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I don't read [the Bible] as a historical book. I don't read it as, "Well, that's good advice." I let it speak to me in other ways. They call it the rhema. It's a hard word to translate from Greek, but it sort of means it changes in the moment you're in. It seems to do that for me. It's a plumb line for me. In the Scriptures, it is self-described as a clear pool that you can see yourself in, to see where you're at, if you're still enough. November 3, 2005 ー Interview with Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone)
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There’s a translation of the Bible that’s out by this fella called Eugene Peterson, and he’s a poet as well as a scholar. And he’s been working his way through each of the Books and now he’s finally this year finished the whole thing. And if you’ve ever read the Bible ー sometimes you hear these things as you’re growing up, and you don’t hear it anymore cause the words they don’t connect, because they’re written in some odd English. This guy has written such a poetic sensibility and such a sense of now. If anyone is interest in reading the Bible, this is a great great version. ​November 4, 2002 ー Interview with Jo Wiley (MSN Webcast)      

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that’s why they’re so relatable. But the way we would see it, those of us who are trying to figure out our Christian conundrum, is that the God of the Old Testament is like the journey from stern father to friend. When you’re a child, you need clear directions and some strict rules. But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. 2005 ー Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas