Merv wrote:
> Here's a brief comment offered in the confidence that it will be
> entirely ignored, (ignored in the name of job security for
> pedagogues). It crosses my mind that the fuss over the origins of
> evil is the luxury of a society who isn't busy about daily survival
> – a society sold on the notion that pain doesn't have to be a part
> of this world, courtesies of pharmaceuticals, new technology, etc.
> This includes many of us in the first world nations, and probably
> the wealthy kings and philosophers of previous ages. I'm certainly
> not saying such things weren't debated long ago. The psalmists and
> Job fussed quite a bit over such problems as well.
This is an excellent point. It seems that most of scripture was not
written to satisfy the curiosity of the comfortable, but to make them
uncomfortable -- just as is was written to comfort and give hope to
the poor and suffering.
Keith
Keith B. Miller
Research Assistant Professor
Dept of Geology, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-3201
785-532-2250
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
Received on Thu May 11 22:57:15 2006
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