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An omniscient God can't be outwitted by stuff in the small print. If there's a loophole in the small print, God put it there on purpose. If anything, He would b
by WJW 1y ago
An omniscient God can't be outwitted by stuff in the small print. If there's a loophole in the small print, God put it there on purpose. If anything, He would be delighted that some of his followers read the holy books closely enough to find some of the easter eggs that He put in there.
The whole idea of "the spirit vs the letter of the law" is a secular one that came up as a result of imperfect human lawmakers. But when dealing with holy texts, that is obviously not required because axiomatically God doesn't make mistakes.
- cam_l 1y agoGod didn't write the texts.. people did. I mean, even apart from the fact god doesn't exist.
- aleph_minus_one 1y agoDon't interfer with their LARPG. :-)
- gadders 1y agoI see. Thanks for the explanation. Does that mean the old testament is taken literally as well?
- PessimalDecimal 1y agoIsn't it interpreted literally to an extreme degree? For example, the injunction to not boil a kid in its mother's milk [1] has had a bunch of corollaries added going to extreme lengths to ensure this doesn't accidentally happen. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_and_meat_in_Jewish_law#Rabbinic_additions_to_the_Biblical_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_and_meat_in_Jewish_law#Ra...