- Why did God choose pain? He has chosen to feel pain Himself, as well as to let His creation feel pain. Why?
- What is beauty? Is it a fundamental property or is it merely an arbitrary interpretation of the beholder? Is it merely a pattern recognition system in the brain that triggers pleasure when an arbitrary pattern is matched? [What is a pattern? Am I skewing the question by assuming that patterns exist?]
- Why did God give us the Bible in the state it is in?
- It is written in human languages with their imprecision and ambiguities.
- It is written in many differenct historical, cultural and linguistic contexts. If the reader doesn't know the context--and many historical contexts cannot be known--the reader's understanding is compromised.
- There is evidence of redaction. How much of the text that has been handed down to us is the result of editing after it was originally written?
- How can we tell what text really is the word of God and what text is merely the reflection of the attitudes and culture of the people written about?
- Why did God create rebellion? Why did God create enemies?
Friday, February 27, 2009
Four Questions
I have four highly philosophical questions:
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