The Holography of the Bible as Defensive Measure
Why is it interesting that the Bible is like a hologram?
With my personality, I would personally prefer in some sense that the Bible be organized like a textbook:
- The Beginning Of The Universe
- Humanity's Problem
- The Solution To Humanity's Problem
- The Cosmology of the Universe
- How the Earth Was Created (With Pictures)
- The Structure Of Heaven
- Ethics: Honesty
- Ethics: Courage
- Demons: A Field Guide
And so on. Need an answer, look it up in the correct section. Like a User's Manual for life, or a textbook.
No one writes a "holographic" user's manual, where the entire manual is a complex tapestry of all the things you might want to know, but none of them laid out in one place clearly. That would be insane for a technical document.
But there's a problem with that structure. A modern textbook is written by a small group of people and published by one company. No modern textbook author has any hope of their textbook surviving across thousands of years.
But God designed the Bible to last across thousands of years.
Moreover, the Bible is designed to go into a hostile environment. No textbook author has to worry about people deliberately miscopying their texts, and then someone else miscopying those, and then someone else inserting their own agenda into it, and so forth. Yes, there's a few textbooks that become contentious and maybe this happen just a smidge to a few, but a few years later and those textbooks are gone anyhow.
If it were designed the way I want it, with clear sections, it would be very easy to corrupt over centuries. Does someone want to change the Ethics of Honesty? All they have to do is rip that section out and write a new one.
It isn't that hard to rip a chunk out of a conventional image and put a new one in. We have off-the-shelf computer programs for that.
It is effectively impossible to do that to a hologram on a large scale. You can easily cut a bit of it out. But the rest of the hologram still has a lot of the missing information. Jamming something new in there also sticks out. It becomes very difficult to integrate something truly new into the whole without it being detectable.
Detection is all you can ask for. The attempts to corrupt will occur. There have been many rewrites of the Bible and they continue to this day. But what I'm observing here is that they have to come as either complete front-to-back rewrites, or the creation of completely new supplementary material that is accompanied by some pronouncement by an authority figure that it simply supersedes the Bible. It's very difficult to just snip this bit out or slide this new thing in to the Bible undetected. I say "very difficult" and not, strictly speaking, impossible, on purpose. But it is very difficult.
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