# Your explaination for this work of God

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**Created:** [November 17, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-explaination-for-this-work-of-god/603223 "2011-11-17T14:00:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-explaination-for-this-work-of-god/603223/5 "2011-11-17T14:17:40Z")

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> [@Meatros](#):
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> Why wouldn’t God just instill the interest into **The Other Waldo Pepper** so that he cracked open the Bible to read it himself?

That’s exactly what happened:

> [@Atheists in foxholes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-in-foxholes/602808/122):
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> John 19:6 leads into John 19:7 – _"Therefore, when the chief priests and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, ‘Crucify Him, crucify Him!’ Pilate said to them, ‘You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in Him.’ The Jews answered him, ‘We have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God.’_ And, in hopes of bringing this back on-topic, this meant that Jesus soon found himself in a figurative foxhole and promptly asked why God had forsaken him.

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