From: utzoo!decvax!sultan!dag
Newsgroups: net.flame
Title: Re: Fruitless Bible Comments
Article-I.D.: sultan.129
Posted: Wed Feb  2 01:03:23 1983
Received: Thu Feb  3 03:09:29 1983


Come on non-christians...  Speak out!

For some reason, only the christian view of the Bible and God is
being put forward...  Some statements I've seen about Jewish belief
recently on the net have been wrong.  Most comments have come from
people who use New-testiment quotes, and those who use old-testiment
quotes tend to do so out of context and put a christian interpretation
on them.  I defy anyone to show me where the Devil is mentioned in the
old testiment.  I go further to ask where it is that the serpent becomes
the devil.  A recent article quoted Genesis with added words to make
the meaning clear...  It was about the curse that God put on the serpent
where the seed of Eve will forever shun and hate the seed of the serpent.
This person added in square brackets references to the Devil.  This
is not from Jewish tradition.  The Devil, in his current form is based
on the god Baal, who I think was the Babylonian Fertility god.  The first
mention that I am aware of is in the book of revelations.  I am no
new-testiment scholar, but I am well trained in Jewish customs and
beliefs, and have read the old testiment many times, both in english
and Hebrew.  Please, if you must talk about Damnation, Hell and the
Devil, DON'T USE OLD TESTIMENT QUOTES!  They don't apply.

I'm going to get counter flames, but I don't care...  I've cleared the
area, and am using an asbestose keyboard.  I just get sick of having
Christian philosophy presented as Jewish philosophy.  It gives amunition
to those who think it is their role in life to convert us "Pagens",
although the ones who I worked with while I was in college never had
read the old-testiment, and one had never read the new-testiment.
She told me that it was not allowed for her to do so.  She only read
what her minister told her to read.     

This flame is getting off track...

				451o Farenhite

					Daniel Glasser