[Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...]

If God doesn't take unnecessary steps, why bother with a diameter measurement? You know the thickness of the pot, after all, so you could have calculated the diameter.

True, he didn't need to bother to include it ..... unless God considered it a necessary step to provide enough information such that skeptics could confirm the veracity of the text.

[donh]

True, he didn't need to bother to include it ..... unless God considered it a necessary step to provide enough information such that skeptics could confirm the veracity of the text.

So...generalizing a bit--God takes no unnecessary steps, and if you think you see any, well, of course, that's because you don't know what God found necessary, or for what reason. What a decisive, all-encompassing demonstration of God's efficiency that is.