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The Word of GodI have recently been engaged in this discussion about the Bible and through the course of the discussion a thought had suddenly come to me, which I had not considered before. I just started to ponder the fact that Christians view the Bible as being the word of God so I was thinking, if you are God and you are going to have your word imparted to man kind and you are going to have men write it down for you, wouldn't you be a bit more precise and specific about what you meant?
Essentially God is having his autobiography written, but he does not want to do it himself so he is have these ghostwriters actually write it for him through his divine inspiration, but he wants this book about his life to be a guide for how people live their lives and he wants his word to be followed, so I would think in the process of his passing this information to those who are going to be writing it down, he would not want to be so vague about certain important things. If you are God, do you really want a bunch of humans going around and putting words into your mouth for you, and trying to speak for you, and deciding for themselves what they think you meant. Do you really want people like "Hey God meant this" "No, God clearly meant that " Well since we cannot agree on what God really meant lets just start killing each other to figure out who is right. For instance the whole slavery thing, half the people used the bible to say God approves of slavery and half the people used the Bible to say, no God condemns slavery. I would think if you are God, you would want to be pretty clear on if you do or do not approve of people having the authority and moral justification to oppressed and abuse entire groups of people. I would not think God would want that just up in the up air. If one group of people commits genocide on another group of people, I would not think God would be want to be given credit for that, I do not think God would want someone to be like well it says right here in this Bible passage that God totally supports me doing this, if God does not so much approve of that sort of thing, you think he would want to be pretty clear about that. With free will he cannot altogether stop people from doing bad things but I would think at the least he would make it such that people would not have the wiggle room to say they were committing inhumane acts in his name. 8:52 AM - 2/18/2009 - post comment
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 For though All are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them. ~The Monk
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