I am laughing. I probably should not be, but it strikes me funny that you think God's way of calling sin a sin at it's origin - the moment it pokes it's head up - is unrefined.
To my eyes, it is sheer wisdom, but it didn't used to be.
You give your opinion as to what you think God would do and how He would judge.
I catch these glimpses in your writing occasionally that give me the impression that you really do think God exists in some fashion. You give yourself away sort of.
I did not mean we were to think of God as a human parent.
I meant to show that He made everything, He wrote the story, and so the story just gets retold over and over again in His creation simply because a creation has some of the soul or spirit or what have you, IN it, of the man who did the creating. We pour OURSELVES into our creations. It stands to reason, that by looking upon a mans art, we get some sense of his own soul. We can FEEL after that man and sometimes, haply, grasp a part of him and what his soul felt...we can make a connection with him by viewing his art/creation.
So the AUTHOR, writes the story.
His "characters" can't come up with anything original.
They are just the AUTHORS creation.
When they write a love story, why can this not be done without a sacrifice of some sort?
Why can't someone write an original love story without a sacrifice?
Because the Author didn't write love to be so.
You may write a story, but if there is no sacrifice, it definitely won't be a LOVE story.
Or why can't they come up with a suspense/adventure story that does not have the element of good vs. evil?
Because that isn't our story!
And more importantly, why do we never tire of the same story over and over again??
The same bones are there always, and the characters and their situations change around a bit, so what keeps us from tiring of them?
So by watching a father and son, we catch glimpses of the original story. No earthly father is perfect, so it isn't the case that we see the creator accurately displayed. We see a skewed and imperfect picture, with foibles and shattered pieces stuck together.
Yes, I know you read the NT a good while ago.
You said that you thought you might look at it again in order to get the accurate story instead of always asking people other than the author what the author meant and intended. To maybe see where the retellers of the story could be getting it wrong....kind of like....when you see two people arguing over what Thomas Jefferson thought, felt, and meant. You know they can't both be right because they are saying opposite things. So you go to the source yourself to find out which of them is telling the truth.
You don't jump in on the argument because you really don't know which is correct until you have Jefferson talk to you in his writings.
Once again, my motive for wanting you to read it is selfish, as I told you before.
I want to see what a very capable mind does with the writing.
I want to hear what you make of some of the apparent contradictions IN the writing.
But also, I want you to stop having discussions and debates with people about a book you have not read recently enough to be able to call them on it when they have a part wrong. It is painful to watch someone so capable of mind come unprepared to the table. When they get it wrong, and I see they have got it wrong, I want to see what happens when you are able to call them on their inconsistency regarding the Man they claim to follow, based on what that man said himself, in his own words.
But mostly, I want your mind applied to some of the riddles/parables/seeming inconsistencies.
I want to use your mind.
Selfish, I know.
Originally Posted by oscarkipling
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