From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxx!ignatz Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: Understand the Bible instead Article-I.D.: ihuxx.335 Posted: Mon Feb 14 19:37:30 1983 Received: Thu Feb 17 01:31:49 1983 Reply-To: ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP (Dave Ihnat, Chicago, IL) References: floyd.1117 I really don't want to fire this thing much further; if you want to quote scriptures--thank Bheer it's only the Christian bible, so far--you can find mutually contradictory evidence throughout. (i.e.: the 'Merciful' Christian God portrayed in the Bible is the same one who sent a she-bear to rip children apart for laughing at a old bald man...) If the Bible was a monolithic, easily understool manual of morals and behavior, there wouldn't be the plethora of Christian sects, now, would there? You'll never be able to resolve anything on the net when dealing with things that depend not upon logic or reaon, but rather upon *faith*; and that is, basically, at the heart of the religious question: whatever you are trying to say is the 'Word' is empirically unproven, and must be accepted on faith. You're not likely to convince anyone on the net; you're just going to get an endless argument. Please--we've better ways to endlessly waste our computer time. Dave Ihnat ihuxx!ignatz