09-02-2016, 10:27 AM
(09-02-2016, 09:03 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: I'll have to interject here. Yes, Moses was indeed a doofus. The dude led people wandering around in the desert for 40 years and when it came to to enter the Promised Land, he wasn't allowed to go because he got mad decades earlier when the people were complaining they didn't have any water.
The whole point of the Bible is that we are all doofuses in our own way. Everyone, that is, but Jesus.
Precisely. And given that the Jesus story is such a departure from the rest of the book, I really question its authenticity. I am not saying it is apocrypha, but I am not ready to fully embrace it. And so, I camp with the Doobie Brothers on this issue: Jesus is Just Alright With Me
I'm not for him, not against him. He's just alright.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
