Another of Dave's Famous Analogies

Farrell Till (jftill@midwest.net)
Wed, 7 May 1997 23:37:49 -0500 (CDT)

(DAVE 5/6) Yoel: Really? What if the child understood how you wrote? Did
you know that my handwriting is getting so bad that I often have to ask my
office supervisor what I had written down? She has worked for me for so
long that she knows how I write - NO ONE else can read it (usually)!
Amazing how one person can understand something that another can't.

Yoel
Now, if I was an all-knowing (and therefore
literate) father and I sent my child off into a wilderness with such
garbled instructions... what kind of father would I be?

(DAVE 5/6) I think you are giving more value to the Bible then it warrants.
The Bible is just words on paper, brought to "life" through the revelation
and instruction of the God who inspired it. My office supervisor doesn't
understand my writing because it's ink on paper - she understands it because
she KNOWS me and how I write and what I would say. I don't TAKE
instructions from the Bible - the instructions I have received are EXPLAINED
to me through the Bible. Without that prior "inspiration", the words in the
Bible are as they are to you: lifeless.

TILL
Oh, gee, another one of Dave's analogies. I don't believe that Dave is
inspired by an omniscient, omnipotent deity when he writes. If he were, I
suspect that his office supervisor would suggest that he find another deity
to inspire him.

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net