Biblical Hermeneutic and the Keebler Elves

While studying Drane's "Introduction to The Old Testament" and wrestling with the concept that the Bible is faulty in its historical and scientific representation but accurate in its theological implications, a Keebler commercial appeared on TV. It was a Holy Spirit moment.

The scenario was a girl looking at the last cookie. She wanted it for herself. Her little sister arrived and conveyed, in her cute, little-sister sort of way, that she wanted the same cookie. The older sister contemplated the situation and kindly gave the last cookie, on which she had legitimate claim, to her little sister.

As she turned away from the empty cookie package there was a rustle of moving plastic. Turning back, "Glory to god (whichever invisible being you choose to call god) in the Highest!" The cookie she had given away had been replaced, implying that the Keebler Elves had done their deed.

We could include the Keebler commercial in our scriptural canon. Instead of scrolls, we could have "You Tube" clips. The commercial is an, inaccurate, unreliable, unscientific, cultural tale teaching a godly teaching. "Not only is it good to put others first, but if you do, your god (whatever it may be) will provide for your own desires (I Keebler 1:1)." My heart is aflutter.

Thanks to Keeblers, I understand God better. Now I realize that scripture may be a collection of folklore and remain reliable as a source of theology.