Every so often in life, I encounter a nexus of coincidence so perfect that it feels like there's no way it wasn't left behind by that man. The subject of today's musing may be too plainly obvious to warrant such an introduction, but it's rather details which I've never once seen anyone else actually mention which get my attention when approaching the bible.

As has been made clear by now, I'm largely focused on the phenomena where information changes it's form in the process of communication. What I find most compelling about the bible, when approaching it from this perspective, is that it's plain as day that whoever arranged the entire thing knew exactly what enemy they were dealing with. They included the previous holy book, because they recognized the importance of context. They included multiple perspectives on the same events, because they recognized that it is impossible to present a single, accurate, communicable report of any event. Then it gets even crazier, as the primary prescribed method for delivery is to actually go listen to people talk about it, because they recognized that transcribing the message to other media dulls the message. To further that last point, and unfortunately this is the place most modern Christians have fallen short, those who study the bible are called to actually go out into their communities themselves to make things better. It's unfortunate because that last point is by far the most potent method for the communication of Jesus' message.