Natural Evil

[Neo-Scholastic]

I’m sorry for whatever condition that pains you and wish you all the best.

As noted, I suspect your knowledge of hermeneutics and the philosophy of literary analysis is not particularly advanced…

My general experience in real life and on the web has ecouraged me to put as much as I can into folk terms. Most people I deal with are not as well-read as I and when I use “big words” they tend to think I’m talking down to them or trying to prove how smart I am. I recognize that not everyone has studied semiotics, reads biblical Hebrew, or are remotely familiar post-structualism or process theology. Using more common terms rather than academic nomenclature helps me avoid falling too deeply into bullshit. It also allows others to follow and contribute to the threads.

Does it make any sense for God to be relatively clear in communicating his message through a book and a people… yet be so thoroughly inscrutable in communicating his message through nature and creation

From an atheistic stance, probably not. Whereas, I consider divine providence so ubiquitous that that it escapes the notice of modern (post-modern?) humanity. In the words of my favorite hymn, “Tis only the brilliance of light hideth thee.”