In the readings today, two men are called to God. The first, in the Old Testament, the great prophet Isaiah stands awestruck before a vision of God seated on a throne of gold and surrounded by angels. Isaiah's lips are purified with hot coals. In the second, Peter, in the New Testament, is astounded by an unusually large catch of fish. The early vision is fearsome; in the latter, Christ is sitting in a boat, teaching and reasoning with people.
Something has changed here. It isn't the times. The average guy was subjected to the same arbitrary threats in both the Old and New Testament--as are we now: Plagues, famine, armed malice, armed stupidity, the horseman--now motorized. But somehow the relationship between man and God is different.
It's reminiscent of Moses changing the rules for divorce because the Jews just were not ready for the real laws.
Critics have always argued that God has changed--because we are creating him. But maybe Moses was right. Maybe we have changed.
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Dr. Strangelove, Slim Pickens says.” Better get a confirmation from base.
`Major Kong. Base confirms. ‘
Well this it boys, Nuclear Combat toe to toe with the RUSKIES.
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