Driver and truck both suffer together, just as mankind and the rest of creation suffer still today. The True God is patient because he is all-powerful and will have his own way in the end. He is patient because he takes pity on the stupidity and wickedness of man, not by accepting them, but by setting out to cure them. He is a God of consolation, not because he thinks that mankind's sin doesn't matter, but because he loves mankind enough to overcome sin on mankind's behalf. The second is a lie about unity-the falsehood that mankind can be united apart from God, or that there can be unity without God as the primary participant.
Bad ideas are like the flu.
They come back year after year, sometimes with a different name, sometime with a different symptom or two, but they bring the same old misery and the same old sickness of alienation from God. Under its sway, people were reduced to, at best, a type of machine to be manipulated by the mechanical psychology of Freud or the mechanical biology of Darwin. They are as old as thinking that eating a piece of fruit has nothing to do with the spiritual reality of God. But instead of seeking the order of God, we are simply swinging with the pendulum in the opposite direction. It is almost the first false doctrine that the Apostles encountered when they preached the Gospel-the denial that God cared enough about our physical bodies and the physical world of history and facts to become flesh in Jesus Christ.