Even God Reads My Blog

Well, I have received a message from God, in the form of - of all things - an anonymous comment on my blog.

I used to think that only losers posted anonymous, but seeing Who this is from, I stand utterly corrected. Here is God's message to me (as I recall from my A Beka Book grammar in high school, all words from God and referencing pronouns should be in all-caps and red ink):

PAVLOV, THIS IS GOD. PLEASE CORRECT YOUR QUOTATION OF GENESIS 10:8-9 AND READ HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/BLASPHEMY .


I was surprised by God's easy-reading reference to a workmanlike Wikipedia article discussing various outmoded and overturned state laws. These laws impose some minimal fines for certain types of blasphemy, but only so long as the blasphemy occurred 200 years ago or more. I believe, however, that Neehar the Wonder Donkey was mentioned explicitly, so maybe that was the point.

What I had expected from God was something more along the lines of 2 Kings 13:17-19, which goes exactly like this: "I shall smite thee, I shall smite thee, I shall smite thee." I would especially have expected this for misquoting an Old Testament verse, which is what I sort of did. Note that if you misquote a New Testament verse you just have to ask forgiveness.

At any rate, I think my version came pretty close. In fact, I think God was referring to his King James version (the inspired translation) and didn't realize I was quoting exactly from the NIV version - there ARE subtle differences between the two! I guess this is proof that God really does want us to use the King James.

As a side note, the Revised Standard Version is even more interesting. Behold its version of 2 Kings 13:17-19, to which I referred above:

"And when I have smitten thee the third time, I shall smite thee twice the more. And when I have smitten thee five or six times, then I shall be wroth, and my fury shall smite the land, yea I shall smite it utterly."

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I leave you with an admonishment from www.godsview.com:

"Search the Bible for certain words or vaguely remembered verses."