Which Reminds Me

There are those who wonder why the Book of Susan is not included in the Bible canon. I don't know why and am not qualified to say. Protestant Bible scholars with doctoral degrees in Greek and Hebrew make those decisions. I have no clue but we commoners have to trust the authorities who tell us we don't really need that Apocryphal trivia cluttering our brains. The KJV Bible has everything that we need for life and liberty. And yet late at night, deep in the silence, one hears the thunderous pounding of demon fists trying to break down the door that keeps Susan's story out of this debate. And what if Susan were standing with a myrtle tree on her right and a Lentiske tree on her left so that both men correctly named a tree in the garden? Still she would be innocent of guile and the two lecherous men guilty of evil and treacherous schemes, according to the facts presented. Thus we see that Susan's story produces no repentance in the men who plotted against her. The two men are not led to a recognition of their own sinfulness and folly, which is the prelude to salvation and forgiveness from sin. The two men are put to death by law enforcement based on the fact that their arboreal alibis do not exactly match, but the legal burden of proving false witness is not fully met. The fact that the two would-be thieves cannot read each other's minds only proves that they are not omniscient deities. Thus, would-be thieves of the future are notified that in order to get away with murder they must be of one mind. The reader is left asking whether the two men would have ben excused of their wicked schemes, the slaughtering of Susan's innocence, if, under another scenario, they had chanced to name the same tree. With the honor of the vineyard's owner slaughtered, the two men might feel some pangs of sadness at the loss of beauty but barriers to assuming ownership would be demolished. Thus we see that Susan's story produces a race of thieves. Mankind falls far short of the standard of righteousness that God demands from us. God says that we are to be holy as He is holy. God is perfect. If mankind had not sinned in Adam and Eve there would be no need for a Messiah, no reason for the prophecy that the woman's seed would crush the serpent's head. So anyway, I don't understand anything but these are just some thoughts produced by Susan's story.