From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxe!aark Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: Have you read your Bible? Article-I.D.: ihuxe.192 Posted: Tue Jan 25 09:15:20 1983 Received: Fri Jan 28 01:10:31 1983 Reply-To: aark@ihuxe.UUCP (Alan R. Kaminsky) The following message appeared here recently: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | I really wonder how many people have carefully read the Bible from | | beginning to end, both old and new testaments. I have. I'll bet that | | *very few* have. If you have some spare time, do it. And pay | | particular attention to the extreme anti-female slant and the | | incredibly vindictive god displayed throughout. Think about it. | | Stuart | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I, too, have "carefully read the Bible from beginning to end, both Old and New Testaments." The above remark makes me wonder that this person really read the WHOLE Bible. Anyone who would say that the God of the Bible is "incredibly vindictive" cannot have read the Gospels, the Gospel of John in particular, or Psalm 103, or Isaiah 53 through 55. Anyone who would say that an "extreme anti-female slant" is "displayed throughout" the Bible cannot have read the Gospel of John again, or the letter to the Ephesians. By taking only those parts of the Bible that suit your own pre- conceptions, you can make it seem to say whatever you want. Those who close their eyes to its full message might very well conclude that God is incredibly vindictive and the Bible is extremely anti-female. I, and many others who have studied the Bible's WHOLE message and have come to know the God revealed therein, know better. Alan R. Kaminsky Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL ...ihnp4!ihuxe!aark