larryg@teklds.UUCP (12/28/84)
Marcel gets into a discussion of the Bible. I guess he is trying to fit it into todays thinking. What I am wondering is how do you know what the Bible was intended to be. According to the Bible itself, it is the "literal" word of God. That is what sets it apart from all other writings or books. Just because God doesn't fit into our way of thinking doesn't mean we are right and He is wrong. Perspective is a powerful thing. karen alias larryg
ran@ho95b.UUCP (RANeinast) (01/04/85)
>Marcel gets into a discussion of the Bible. I guess he is trying to >fit it into todays thinking. > >What I am wondering is how do you know what the Bible was intended >to be. According to the Bible itself, it is the "literal" word of >God. That is what sets it apart from all other writings or books. >Just because God doesn't fit into our way of thinking doesn't mean >we are right and He is wrong. Perspective is a powerful thing. > >karen alias larryg This posting is the literal word of God, and I created the universe in a Big Bang and let it evolve. There, this writing is now also set apart from all other writings or books (because, by according to this writing itself, it is the literal word of God). Just because I don't fit into YOUR way of thinking doesn't mean you are right and I am wrong. Same "logic" as karen. God (as transmitted by), -- ". . . and shun the frumious Bandersnatch." Robert Neinast (ihnp4!ho95b!ran) AT&T-Bell Labs
rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (01/05/85)
> Marcel gets into a discussion of the Bible. I guess he is trying to > fit it into todays thinking. > What I am wondering is how do you know what the Bible was intended > to be. According to the Bible itself, it is the "literal" word of > God. That is what sets it apart from all other writings or books. > Just because God doesn't fit into our way of thinking doesn't mean > we are right and He is wrong. Perspective is a powerful thing. > [karen alias larryg] According to the Book of Ubizmo itself, it is the holy unswerving and hopelessly accurate and correct "literal" word of Ubizmo, the most holy god of shoe polish and wax museums, AND that those who say otherwise are wrong. There! That's even clearer than the Bible. Not only does MY book claim to be the only real truth, it also tells me that YOU are a liar for proclaiming otherwise. (And it predicts that you would do so---a prophecy come true!!! Absolute proof of the accuracy of the Book of Ubizmo.) This belongs in some other newsgroup, but I don't know what they're calling it this week. -- When you're omniscient, everything's a tautology. Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr
mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) (01/08/85)
> What I am wondering is how do you know what the Bible was intended > to be. According to the Bible itself, it is the "literal" word of > God. That is what sets it apart from all other writings or books. > Just because God doesn't fit into our way of thinking doesn't mean > we are right and He is wrong. Perspective is a powerful thing. > > karen alias larryg Then in that case we should all learn Aramaic or whatever the written language of 4000 BC was. There seems to be this interesting idea that the King James version of the Bible, a translation with considerable poetic license of the Vulgate, which was a Latin translation of the Greek texts, which were themselves written records of the oral tradition and original Aramaic texts. So much for the "literal word of God" (unless you believe that all the translators and copists were only taking divine dictation :-) Marcel Simon