Given the multiple Gods that live within the pages of the Hebrew Bible, as in Genesis 1: 26; 2:18; 3:22; 10: 6-7 and many others, what are we to make of this understanding of the reality of God? Shall we remain ignorant because this kind of God talk makes us uncomfortable? Shall we get angry at those who have the courage to point out our intellectual immaturity Biblewise? Shall we desperately retreat to the Christian doctrine of the multiplicity (Trinity) of God understandings? Worse yet, shall we just throw out the Bible?
One is free
to handle the Bible however one may choose.
As a God believer and a Bible believer, I can only give my opinion even
though my opinion has not been solicited and does not count for much. Gmirkin has defended most adequately the
opinion that the Bible was edited 270 BC, at Alexandria, Egypt. There is no
other way to explain the obvious Greek philosophical influences on the text of
the Hebrew Bible. That being said, is this new soup more or less
creditable?
Whether Hebrew tradition
or Plato’s philosophy, they both are stories told in Sunday school. Stories told to prepare the child for the
complexities of living in this crazy yet beautiful world. Both of their motives are righteous
but they both are merely camouflage. The
stories hide the ultimate question, the question that no one can answered to
date. The question, how can a good God
create an evil world? Why do the good seem to die young?
I dare you
to take a storiless, grown up, shot at that one.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca
