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Re: proofs and people
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Don Smith wrote:
> He said (in essense) that God demands a blood sacrifice for sin ("we may
> not like it, but that's the way God is"), and so sacrificed his son to
> cover our debt. To some of the liberal kids, this made it sound like
> God was not only bloodthirsty, but rather stupid: to set up the rules of
> his own game this way and then try to make us all feel grateful for
> letting us off a hook he put us on in the first place.
Yeah, if not stupid, it does make God look disingenuous, or neurotic, or
masochistic, or something similarly unflattering.
> So when I, personally, read the bible, I feel like I am partaking in a
> meeting for worship that stretches across thousands of years. That's a
> really cool feeling. I don't feel I need to close the canon and declare
> a certain manuscript "inerrant" to do that.
Heer, heer. (Sorry, don't know whether to use "hear" or "here" or both.)
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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