Red Sky at Morning
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When I was a kid (showing my age a bit) there used to be computer magazines where you could type in a few pages of code and end up with a game that you could play. I had a ZX Spectrum and I quite enjoyed having a go at it, though it would take hours. One thing I noticed after was that you could start changing or cutting out bits of code without really knowing much about programming and the game would still stand, whilst producing some amusing effects!
Then I would get over-confident.
Thinking I knew what I was doing, I would cut out whole sections then I might add some made up bits of my own... and the whole thing would stop working. Instead of a working game, I would get:- "syntax error - line not found" (or something like that!) and not long after that I would abandon the whole project.
It occurs to me that many people who are tempted to alter the message of the Bible to one they find more appealing do this same thing. They may exclude this or that verse from their interpretations or maybe even ignore particular writers altogether. The question must come for such people - at what point will the spiritual program stop working? Cut out Genesis? Take away the virgin birth? Diminish the deity of Christ? Deny the blood of Jesus as our substitutionary atonement? Reject the literal ressurection? This list goes on and on, and this forum and so many others are full of similar ideas.
Each of us will finally meet our maker and give an account. At what point will our modifications lead to us to come face to face with the message "syntax error - name not found"?
Then I would get over-confident.
Thinking I knew what I was doing, I would cut out whole sections then I might add some made up bits of my own... and the whole thing would stop working. Instead of a working game, I would get:- "syntax error - line not found" (or something like that!) and not long after that I would abandon the whole project.
It occurs to me that many people who are tempted to alter the message of the Bible to one they find more appealing do this same thing. They may exclude this or that verse from their interpretations or maybe even ignore particular writers altogether. The question must come for such people - at what point will the spiritual program stop working? Cut out Genesis? Take away the virgin birth? Diminish the deity of Christ? Deny the blood of Jesus as our substitutionary atonement? Reject the literal ressurection? This list goes on and on, and this forum and so many others are full of similar ideas.
Each of us will finally meet our maker and give an account. At what point will our modifications lead to us to come face to face with the message "syntax error - name not found"?
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