From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!dyl Newsgroups: net.flame,net.religion Title: Christians should quote more often from the old testament Article-I.D.: floyd.1165 Posted: Sat Feb 5 20:04:42 1983 Received: Sun Feb 6 06:43:39 1983 This is not a flame! I am overjoyed that Jews are paying attention to what Christians are saying. I just like to clear up some things brought out by Daniel Glasser in net.flame and encourage Christians to quote even more from the old testament. If you wonder why dragon, serpent, devil and Satan are equivalent, here it is. Revelations 12:9 The great dragon was hurled down - that ancient serpent called the devil or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. The word 'Satan' appears in 1 Chronicles, Job, and Zechariah a total of 18 times so the old testament is definitely good for quoting by Christians. I dislike the acts (but not the persons) of giving Christians a bad image (i.e. Christians only read what their ministers allow) for no apparent reason. So for Daniel's information: In the old testament, 'Baal' appears about 58 times in the book of Numbers, Deuteronomy, Judges, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Psalm, Jeremiah, Hosea, and Zephanian. 'Baal' appears only once in the new testament in the book of Romans. I guess you missed Baal pretty badly and you also spelled testament wrong. I for one would like to learn more about Jewish traditions, what books are included in the old testament, how some of the prophecies are treated etc.