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To: blue-duncan
It is easy to read and easy to understand. It needs no learned introduction, no expert scholarship to enable us to grasp its meaning.

Really? Then there should be no denominations, no religious wars within the church, no challenges, etc? The Bible may be all true, but man is flawed, very flawed and has a history of misinterpreting or twisting the Bible to suit his own purpose, all while declaring his translation was the 'true' one. A whole world opens up when you do dig into it with scholarship, with learning, studying the language, culture, and history, not just trusting what someone in sunday school said it means.

4 posted on 06/03/2009 12:11:08 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring

I agree with you. There is a lot to the Bible. You have to understand the generational gap between now and then. There are many things in the Bible that don’t literally apply today. There are lessons to be learned from everything but applying some of the things in a literal way today is not always the answer.


9 posted on 06/03/2009 12:18:05 PM PDT by Mind Freed ("Every man has the right to be a fool 5 minutes a day. Wisdom is not exceeding the limit.")
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To: mnehring

The people in Sunday School aren’t the ones starting the wars.

It’s the guys who have a dollar to make or power to grab may making simple lessons incomprehensible.

Those “professionals” absolutely hate it when the laymen start muscling in on their territory.


13 posted on 06/03/2009 12:26:36 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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