Getting it Right
I read Bill’s letter to the Record Bee on December 18, with amazing disbelief.
We live on the only world we have known for the last million years and for those last million years were seeing the Earth as perfect because we knew of no other world. However, today we now know of thousands of other worlds circling other stars—making earth’s perfection a moot point. We can no longer consider ourselves the center of the Universe and are no longer God’s special Bon Bon. God has many, many, many other worlds to tend to.
Today we have a new model of the Universe that is very different from the old Biblical view. Our new model sees as being pretty much alike everywhere we look; and where observers anywhere in the Universe will observe the similar effect of all galaxies appearing to move away from us at a rate proportional to their distance from us. Again, the earth is no longer considered the center of the Universe, and God certainly can’t devote all of His, Her, Its energy to one small bit of the vast Universe.
As I recall, the Flood was God’s way of wiping all humans, animals, birds, and other creatures from the face of the Earth because He, She, It regretted that they were made (they were considered sinful). So all creatures died except for the eight humans that God found righteous in his eyes. Was God impartial — really? I guess God really loves the terrorists because they are not dead! As Bill points out on December 18, “Once sin has been eradicated from this planet it will never re-occur.” Isn’t this what this Flood was all about?
My disbelief in Bill’s piece is how anyone could be smitten by a God they consider unable to do anything or having any choice of being considered heavy-handed or not; and belief in a God who is afraid to have a chaotic situation happen if any favorites are chosen or if He, She, It finds favor with anyone. Then He, She, It would be considered a whimsical God.
By the way, my Bible (meaning the books of both the Old and New Testaments) has only two covers, front and back. I haven’t heard that half of the Bible has been eliminated.
Greg Blinn, Kelseyville
