[E3-hacking] PBL 5.1

[Ed Robbins]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 12:05, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone at e3.open.source.it>
wrote:

> What puzzles me about this is that these are the first few words of the
> Book of
> John, but why would he call this "the first two or three sentences of the
> King
> James Bible"?  It doesn't start with John.
>
> The Old Testament starts with Genesis, and I wonder whether Cliff's memory
> tricked him into thinking it was the start of John, but is in fact "In the
> beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  And the earth was without
> form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit
> of
> God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light:
> and
> there was light....."
>
> Maybe my theology lets me down, but why would anyone consider the Book of
> John
> to be the start of the Bible?
>

Completely agree here, it's strange. But I just thought it was a funny
coincidence that the first 6 verses are 392 bytes. But there are so many
factors at play here...
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