A person seeking an answer to a particular query or concern would have opened the book on a random page to read a statement designed to serve as an answer.
In other words, a 6th century Magic 8-Ball.
8 posted on 02/05/2015 4:39:54 PM PST by Leroy S. Mort
(The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it ~ G Orwell)
A person seeking an answer to a particular query or concern would have opened the book on a random page to read a statement designed to serve as an answer.
In other words, a 6th century Magic 8-Ball.
In other words, precisely the way that some Christians use the Bible today.
17 posted on 02/05/2015 7:36:19 PM PST by null and void
(The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic)