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Quote by: Critter However, God himself did not write the book. His followers did. The language it was written in was entirely up to the people of the time.
I fail to see how God had anything to do with the way people chose to write the Bible.
(The fact that it's been translated and re-translated into seventy gazillion different languages since then is beside the point.) |
As the story goes, man was getting along well, too well, and God interfered at the Tower of Babel, and God mixed up the languages. Man has been in conflict ever since, as was God's intention. (omnipotent, right?) So should God not bear the responsibility of man being incapable of getting along with his fellow man?
To me, it just seems like common sense to ask that since God was responsible for the mixing up of the languages, should He not be resonsible for the results? These are the fruits of His labor. I think that God really must not care enough about non-Jews to provide an accurate, dependable translation of the rules you need to gain entrance into Heaven. The chosen tongue has died, and been resurected, the message translated, and confused, the intent watered down, and one could argue largely disreguarded all these years later. But, again, who initiated this move in the wrong direction? Hmmm, I believe it was God Himself, was it not?
P.S. This is my continuing problem with the bible. The writers are always indicating where the problem starts, but somehow man always has to suffer, or bear the brunt of the responsibility of God's actions. This re-occurs again, and again in the bible. (God created Satan, God cast Him out of Heaven, God gave Satan power over man, and Earth, God sends one mans army to kill another group of men, etc, etc, etc...) Like all conflicts, it is easier to go to the root problem, and solve it, rather than attempt to correct all of the problems that have arisen since the great divide.