Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: hall@vice.ico.tek.com (Hal Lillywhite) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Human ==> imperfection? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jul 89 06:20:04 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu [In article sjreeves@eedsp.gatech.edu (Stan Reeves) responded to a comment by tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o). Theodore was talking about the Bible, like other human creations, being imperfect. Steve was concerned that this implied an imperfection on the part of Christ. --clh] Most of us believe in a perfect God who created men who became imperfect. To me this is a much greater problem than errors in the Bible. If He could create men and allow them to be imperfect why could he not allow "printers errors" in his book. The Bible came through the prophets and I don't think many people would claim that these men were perfect. That is, the perfect Creator used imperfect men to give us his word. I don't find this to be a problem. Why not say that although the creator is perfect he allows freedom among his creations which allow them to be imperfect. Certainly the Bible is a creation, not the Creator. We should worship the Creator and consider the Bible only as an aid to our understanding of Him. I fear that a few Christians hold the Bible in such high esteem that their veneration approaches worship. This would be less of a temptation if they understood that it although it is remarkably accruate it does contain errors.