Hebrew Bible and Christian Scriptures

My elegant friends have introduced me to many things bracers, bow ties, and fountain pens. When I am dressed for business I almost always wear a fountain pen. However, it is an anachronism. A fountain pen makes a permanent mark, inscription in a world that is far from permanent. The reading I have done in how to improve your writing as well as leadership often use the metaphor write in pencil to describe the need for flexibility and the openness to change. A Web 2.0 world takes this write in pencil. Talking with Gardner Campbell he reminded me that one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 is the notion of permanent beta. The company Google has embodied this as much as any one company. This oxymoronic term captures well the sense of the age permanent but always changing to meet the demand of end users.

How is Scriptures like the big pencil of Web 2.0? James Sanders wrote an article that might give some perspective on this question. He wrote that it is in the nature of canon to be adaptable to the demands of the era. As such it is multivalent enough to serve over the course of many years. So while one might affirm that he Bible does not change on the one hand, it is in permanent beta on the other.