The following is a public service announcement from the Society for Literal, Context-Free Hermeneutics:

We know why God gave us the Good Book. It serves as a guidebook to life — a set of rules to be obeyed. There is no part of life that is not directly addressed by at least one verse if we will only look for it. And yet when we go looking for a car to get us to church potluck dinners and committee meetings, we ignore the wisdom that God has for us.

Let us consider 2 Chronicles 1:16-17: “And Solomon had horses imported from Egypt and Keveh; the king’s merchants bought them in Keveh at the current price. They also acquired and imported from Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty.”

So we see that the Scriptures are crystal clear on this topic. We must purchase foreign cars even as Solomon imported foreign horses and chariots. For what were horses and chariots in those days but means of conveyance as automobiles are to us today. And remember that it was only two paragraphs ago that God gave Solomon great wisdom and knowledge so we should not doubt his judgement. The parking lots of America's churches ought be filled with Honda’s, Toyota’s and Volvo’s.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.