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:
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|  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                                                              |
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	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
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