BE:
-Why did God make the situation so complicated, given His nature as
-described by John?
-
-No good answer to this question can be provided.
>Well spoze God was *not* as John described him? I support a system
>that is not complicated instead.
Which one is that?
BE:
-So their response to the writing problem was complicated by two
-inconsistent purposes: (1) to reflect a tradition grown up from
-the stories of ignorant and illiterate men, and (2) to tell a
-consistent story to congregations, the priests in which could read
-and write.
>Thucydides, Peloponnesian War: "...The way that most men deal with
>traditions, even traditions of their own country, is to receive
>them all alike as they are delivered, without any critical test
>whatever.
Until the stories accumulate enough to affect human behaviour.
Then the damage starts rolling in, and you get criticism.
>...  My conclusions have cost me some labour from the
>want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrances by
>different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory,
>sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other.  The
>absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat
>from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers
>who desire an exact knowlege of the past as an aid to the inter-
>pretation of the future, which in the course of human things must
>resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content.  In fine,
>I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the
>applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time."
Your words.
>My own view is, that She put up the stage we live on so She could
>watch the show.
You could be a Deist (like Voltaire) or an Occasionalist (like
Malebranche) depending on who directs the action on the stage
and when.
>What is the Christian explanation of Murphy's law?
I don't have any idea.
Bob
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