Another day in paradise
Psalm 8 New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE May 31, 2026 Black and white photo of two people walking away from the camera. One person has their arm around the shoulders of the other. They are walking on a narrow street paved with bricks in a small downtown village area. Bill Cosby is a very complicated, incredibly imperfect human being, but ironically he was also pretty astute when it came to the Bible. Back in the 1980s he did a comedy routine using material from the book of Genesis, talking about what God creates and what human beings invent. Whenever God created something, God said it was good, saw that it was good, and it was GOOD. Quality of God’s work: good. God was satisfied with good. Bill Cosby observed that man invents, God creates. He said “man” because it’s the 1980s and he’s working with a big Bible where no words are missing except a lot of women. Man invented an automobile. Called it fantastic. God did a tree, said it was good. Man did a refri...
