4b) Making Sense of some Biblical accounts:
To make sense out of what we read in the Bible, we need to understand the "Big Picture" correctly. It's like that jigsaw puzzle. You need to know what the final picture looks like to anticipate where each piece fits. The better you know the big picture view, the better your interpretation of the small pieces.
My position is that God does have a clear "Big Picture view" of what is going on around our universe. I think all our questions must have tangible answers, and surely God knows them. We on the other hand are trying to see the forest from among the trees. I suggest that God is logical and He speaks to us in terms of human logic. Also, if God is not acting logically, then it's hopeless for us to ever find the "truth" and know it. Therefore we can use logic to sort out the truth from the errors. This is the only tool we can use with some degree of certainty. If we rely on our passion, then we cannot sort out the truth from the errors. Many cults depend on their followers being passionate about their philosophies. But if passion were the primary discriminator of truth, then the terrorist, who drives the van of explosives into the building full of innocent people, is closer to the truth than most of us.
With the little information we have available to us, I am trying to logically piece together the big puzzle. Primarily, God seems to be looking for a relationship with us and we don't need to know all the answers to these very curious questions for that. However, rocket scientists like me and some of you reading this book, still want to know the truth. Do you think we are capable of understanding it?
22 July 2001