Yesterday’s Speed Bump cartoon featured God using a phone with autocorrect, which kept “fixing” his King James English. The cartoon brings into focus a serious point – that people imagine God speaking with the language – and the concepts, and the morals, and much else in terms of baggage – that came with the texts and translations that influenced them. Hence the idea that God speaks in what is in fact merely typical English of the Elizabethan age.
Interestingly, Non Sequitur also had a cartoon yesterday featuring God:
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