On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:31:57 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> But as I wrote to Nemesis, surely God could've/would've forseen that
>> need and written them clearly enough that such a clarification wouldn't
>> be necessary, no?
> 
> Not necessarily. Peoples' ability to understand may change over time. So
> maybe it only needed clarification in modern times, not in Moses' time.

But God is supposed to be all-knowing, so surely he'd forsee the need to 
write things so that they didn't need to be reinterpreted over time.  Or 
design people so that such reinterpretation wasn't necessary.

> On the other hand, I'm not sure how you get clarification of what JHVH
> did in the garden of eden, given as I said the context was the only two
> people in the whole world. Either God's lying, or he doesn't understand
> the context of the two people he himself created.

:-)

Jim

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