The Biblical Binaries

mmmm Derrida is not my favourite philosopher. But for the joy of using his notorious binaries in reading the Bible I start using Derrida. I do not like Derrida not because of his obfuscation techniques in writing but because of his arrongance in the claim that deconstructing linguistic binaries is equal to deconstructing material boundaries. Inspite of all that Derrida said has anyone been able to look at the darkness and light as unitaries and not binaries? Has anyone been able to privilege night over day? sleep over work?

Another of his claims goes against common sense. Well he has no respect for common sense but only for the convoluted arguments that create ordinary understanding foolish. The master of deconstructing structures creates his own structres!!!! Well that claim was over speech and writing. Speech is privileged in theories because of presence!!!!!! what could be more wrong than this preliminary assumption of his? Speech is not privileged over writing but it is prior to writing historically. His claim is something like saying a typewriter is privileged over computer because the computer still uses the typewriter key pads. The type writer has no privilege than being prior to computer.

Well my intention is not to critique Derrida but to begin with that Biblical Analysis. The book of Genesis the first unwritten binary is about chaos/cosmos. When God began his creation ex nihilo or otherwise earth and heavens were in chaos. Creation was an act of cosmos..order. The second binary I already referred to the heavens and the earth. We find these binaries running into land and sea, light and darkness, day and night, living and non-living....The whole creation looks like a a process of creating boundaries of the binaries. Somehow recognizing binaries seem to be an important task in creation.

In many cases, the boundaries of the binaries are not clear. Perhaps night and day form one continuum that one cannot easily separate the boundaries. Sea and land... they have demarcations very clear. It is but important to recognize these oppositions, if not their boundaries to live life meaningfully. God emerges not like the fox to drink the blood of the warring binaries but as the master of these binaries. Creativity emerges in the interaction of these binaries. If everything were to be light would you see the beauty of the evening and the morning. If everyone is male species would you hear the laughter of a child? If all colours were to be white would you see the colours of the rainbow?

Beauty emerges in the interaction of the binaries..... God oversees the intermingling of the binaries.....