THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

TWIN QUESTIONS | 2004-11-26

People keep telling me not to discuss theology.

Well, you know how us kids are. The more people dictate at me about theology the more I think about it.

Speaking of kids, ever since I was a preteen, two questions in the Bible, far, far apart, have always struck me as twins:

"Am I my brother's keeper?" and "What is truth?" I always felt of them as twins because:

1) Each was spoken directly to God:

2) Neither was answered by God; and

3) The reason that neither was answered by God was because they were not questions;

4) Each time the person "asking" the "question" was not asking, but desperately trying to wash his hands of murder.