On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:58:01 GMT, Kenneth Doyle
<nobody@notmail.com> wrote:

adams_forum@yahoo.ca (Adam) wrote in
news:6f1027e6.0307291759.47e73b0e@posting.google.com:

Actually, it's called the Principle of Charity. If
someone says something ambiguous, you should prefer the
interpretation that makes it hardest to attack him or
her. If there's an interpretation of the bible passage
that is logically consistent, then that's the
interpretation we should prefer until we get more
information.

Interesting! So when we consider the "ambiguity" obtained
by comparing 2 Samuel 24:1 and 1 Chronicles 21:1, we should
conclude that God and Satan are the same? Both those
passages describe the same event, but the first says that
God ordered the census and the second says that Satan
incited David to take the census. The logically consistent
interpretation is that God and Satan are the same.
However, that conclusion contradicts another biblical
passage that says that God is only good and in him there is
no darkness at all. What logically consistent
interpretation can we glean from that?

God and Satan are two personalities of the same being. When
GodSatan does bad he is Satan. If GodSatan ever does good
he would be God. That way God can claim to never do bad.