Just for fun (but also not entirely), if you could sit down with any person in the Bible, other than Jesus, and ask them one honest question, who would you choose? And what would you ask?
I think I’d ask Jonah what was really going through his mind inside the fish. Or maybe Thomas, what did it feel like when Jesus let him touch the wounds?
Curious what others would say. Could be serious or funny, no wrong answers.
Samson,
What you bench bro?
If I had the chance to sit down with anyone in Scripture (besides Jesus), I think I’d choose John—the apostle who wrote one of the most profound openings in all of Scripture. And my question would be simple, but honest:
“When you said, ‘In the beginning was the Word,’ what exactly did you mean?”
We’ve spent centuries debating that one sentence. Was he drawing on Hebrew concepts of God’s creative speech, Greek ideas of divine reason, or his own firsthand experience walking with the incarnate Word? Did he consciously intend to link Genesis 1 to the incarnation? How much of what we argue about today would he even recognize?
Just to hear John speak plainly—in his own thought-world, with his own vocabulary—about what he meant by Logos would be priceless. I’d want to know how he understood the relationship between the eternal Word and the man Jesus he knew so closely, and why he chose that term as the doorway into his Gospel.
For me, that would be the one question that unravels a thousand later debates.