The Lord has some crazy ideas about jurisprudence. If a man suspects his wife of infidelity, she has to drink water that is mixed with dirt and ink. If she’s innocent, she’ll be fine, and if she’s guilty, she’ll get sick.

Wouldn’t it be nice if an all-knowing god could give accurate information? As I’ve said before, these people are innocently ignorant, not stupid. If this really were the word of god, it should be miraculously prescient. Instead, it sounds like it was written by bronze age goat herders.

Of course, if the accuser is wrong, “the husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.‘” I’m not surprised that he has nothing to lose by the accusal.

The title of this post was inspired by my father’s most recent comment.

Tomorrow: Numbers 7.