The reading this Sunday was of Genesis: the story of creation. Sitting in the pew (front row, as is my custom) I pondered why the passage kept reading, “And God saw that it was good.”
Did this imply that God had doubts that it would be good. I can imagine him sitting there and going, “Whew! I’m glad that turned out okay. It was a big risk, but it turned out alright.” This, of course, gets translated into, “And God saw that it was good.”
The other thought was that maybe God did some not so good things. But, being God, decided to go back and undo the crap that didn’t turn out so good. So what wasn’t written in the passage was:
“And God saw that this was pretty crappy, so he went back to the point in time before he made that choice and started over. … And there was light. And God saw that it was good. Which was a relief especially since he just made that other screw up.”
Filtered by the B.C. version of Reader’s Digest into: “And there was light. And God saw that it was good.”
Amen. (Which is the pious version of “period.”)
– Idearella
