Not many years before the Happening, one of your country's largest religious bodies officially declared that their book was holier than their God, thus simultaneously and corporately breaking several commandments of their own religion, particularly the first one. Of course they liked the book better! It was full of magic and contradictions that they could quote to reinforce their bigoted and hateful opinions, as I well know, for I chose many parts of it from among the scrolls and epistles that were lying around in caves here and there. They're correct that a god picked out the material; they just have the wrong god doing it.( The small god in Ch. 44).Sheri S. Tepper
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"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." The Bible is full of contradictions, but this quote is about the power of the human mind to figure out how to make sense of things. For example, because the Bible contains all sorts of contradictions, it can be difficult to determine exactly what God was trying to say. However, there are many cases where the bible is interpreted correctly by someone who understands it. If you understand the book of Job you can understand that God was perfectly just and that his anger was only because Job had committed a sin that caused him to suffer. And if you understand 2 Kings 2:23-24, you can see that there are plenty of reasons why God's decisions are not always easy for us to understand.
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