Saturday, March 31, 2007

JAMES KUGEL notes that in the Bible God is not omniscient or omnipresent:
Envisioning a God with a body

The all-knowing, invisible God, we think of today isn't present in early chapters of the Bible, Jewish scholar James Kugel (right) says. Instead, those texts describe a walking, talking deity who travels from place to place

MIRKO PETRICEVIC (Waterloo Record)

(Mar 31, 2007)

Contrary to popular opinion, God in the earliest books of the Bible didn't know all things.

Nor did He exist everywhere, all at once, James Kugel says.

Instead, the God of Israel was a walking, talking deity who needed to seek clarification from time to time, the world-renowned Jewish scholar observed during a recent public lecture at St. Jerome's University in Waterloo.

[...]
God also experiments and sometimes gets it wrong and has to initiate damage control (e.g., Genesis 6), and he sometimes has to be talked out of rash decisions (e.g., Exodus 32).

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