Opus 2025-329: The Depths of “I Am”

This Bible is not a document produced by a perfect computer, with all of the limitations of a computer as opposed to a person.  It was not a document printed for a bunch of programmed robots.  Nor was it produced for a bunch of robots, half of which were programmed to respond, one way and the other half the other way.  I think we can understand those concepts because we live in a computer age.  We have a tendency to believe that computers don’t make mistakes, which is wrong.  We may think they are programmed wrong, which is more common, but they are capable of somehow making mistakes on occasions.  One of the reasons I like using the word processor and my printer is that once I have things the way I want them they theoretically don’t change.

Compare that to what happens when you dictate to the software on your iPad or iPhone, and even after you have proof-read it and corrected it.  I am willing to guess you find that the application has made some changes that you weren’t counting on.  That’s more along the lines of a real life.

So when we think of the Bible don’t think of a book of charts and tables.  Those things exist.  I don’t know if I’m ever seen them, but I think there used to be a whole book of logarithms and you would be able to look things up.  When you have these kind of books they are cut and dried.  If done correctly, there are no mistakes, and the answers never change.  They are intended to be taken as presented and inserted into the slot they are designed to go in.  It can be in a computer, a formula, or any other place where the scientist or mathematician believes they belong.  There’s no debate.  There is no variation.

That is not the God of the Bible.  That is not the Bible.  The Bible was created, written, edited, and re-produced in an interpersonal relationship between a personal God and individual independent persons.  As such it is full of literary devices.  As such, it will be confusing at times, and will require some real study to understand.  It’s kind of like a personality.

Don’t try to squeeze the communication of a living God into the box you got your computer in.

homo unius libri