Tabernacle Knowing

Ex 36:14-29

Knowing. In our minds, knowing is always a story.

Descriptive narrative is a way of telling the story of a things’ essence. The author of Exodus tells us the details of the tabernacle and the parts of the tent of meeting as if we were there, and he were pointing out the details. The tabernacle given, comes with a describing host.

Ancient Greek rhetoricians used the paradigm of a house to memorize their speeches. The would begin in the foyer by describing all the elements at the house entrance, and then mentally they would move room to room, each of which they imaginatively filled with the objects they intended to discourse.

The contestants from modern memory competitions use the same technique to assure they can remember a long list of unrelated words.

We narrativize what we want to remember because our brains – our memories – are essentially geared for stories.

Jesus Christ came to earth because God isn’t a fact. He is a person. A person with whom we can relate. A relationship remembered.