As a practicing Buddhist and Catholic, my doctoral adviser Seung Ai Yang often regaled us students with stories from the Buddhist tradition that were spot-on as we engaged biblical interpretation and issues of authority. One such story tells of a Buddhist teacher who takes his students up to the top of a mountain. He then points toward the moon and tells the students to identify and ponder that to which he is pointing. As the students focus on their teacher’s finger, the teacher advises that they focus not on the finger but on that to which the finger points. The biblical text is the finger
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This is also the main point of NT Wright's book on biblical authority
