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Newsweek on the Bible — So Misrepresented It’s a Sin
ChristianHeadlines ^ | 29 Dec 14 | Al Mohler

Posted on 12/29/2014 3:28:28 PM PST by xzins

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1 posted on 12/29/2014 3:28:28 PM PST by xzins
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from the article: In the main, he argues that historic Christianity has been based on nothing but a lie and that those who now represent themselves as biblical Christians are lying to themselves and to others — and doing great harm in the process.
2 posted on 12/29/2014 3:28:49 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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Too outrageously false to even bother with.


3 posted on 12/29/2014 3:35:07 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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Back in my youth, perhaps four decades ago now, I used to subscribe to Newsweek because I thought it somewhat more balanced than Time, and this was back in my McGovern-liberal days. I have not read a Newsweek outside of a doctor's office in at least two, perhaps three decades. Yet I am not offended by this article, because the magazine is irrelevant. Also, Psalm 2 applies.
4 posted on 12/29/2014 3:37:04 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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“Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. 44“You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45“But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. 46“Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? 47“He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.” -John 8


5 posted on 12/29/2014 3:40:09 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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So News-WEAK is all of a sudden so concerned about the validity of our faith. Right.


6 posted on 12/29/2014 3:40:59 PM PST by lee martell
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You won’t find Newsweak in a doctor’s waiting room anymore. It no longer exists in the print realm.

It was sold for a DOLLAR. It partnered online with The Daily Beast but even they left them.

It’s strictly a website now.


7 posted on 12/29/2014 3:41:53 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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The new owners are bringing it back in print.

Small circulation, high price tag.

Hard to see why they bother.

8 posted on 12/29/2014 3:48:08 PM PST by x ("It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.")
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It being about the Bible, it grabs your attention.

But in fact no more misrepresented than anything else in Newsweek.

What exactly is the Newsweek business model these days? Who actually pays for their content?

9 posted on 12/29/2014 3:51:27 PM PST by Salman
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Hard to see why they bother.

Schools and libraries will buy it (whereas they will NOT buy the Limbaugh Letter).

It brings them revenue (that a website will not) and it spreads their influence into institutions of learning.

10 posted on 12/29/2014 3:51:30 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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So, perhaps Dr. Mohler is inadvertently helping them by giving them attention. Mohler and I grew up in an era when Newsweek was important. Now it’s not, so why comment at all when they are irrelevant? It only increases their visibility.

On the other hand, we know the liberals. If this were unopposed, they’d find a way to use that.


11 posted on 12/29/2014 3:52:29 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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So Newsweak believes it can judge the truth of God without knowing what is truth or God. Newsweak believes they can judge christian ethics without an extrinsic source for ethics. Newsweak believes it can judge two millennia of Christians for being judgmental; and they don't see the irony.

I conclude that Newsweak believes themselves to the source of truth, ethics and reality and must believe themselves to be gods. Bummer for them, I believe the one true God is not amused.

12 posted on 12/29/2014 3:55:23 PM PST by DaveyB
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A tiny print edition was re-launched several months ago. Like you, I had no idea.


13 posted on 12/29/2014 4:04:45 PM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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I honest to God love Albert Mohler. He writes like a guy with a brain between his ears.

These days, that's like water in the desert.

14 posted on 12/29/2014 4:07:36 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Christus vincit + Christus regnat + Christus imperat)
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**When it comes to Newsweek‘s cover story, “The Bible: So Misunderstood It’s a Sin,” Eichenwald appears to be far outside his area of expertise and knowledge. More to the point, he really does not address the subject of the Bible like a reporter at all. His article is a hit-piece that lacks any journalistic balance or credibility. His only sources cited within the article are from severe critics of evangelical Christianity, and he does not even represent some of them accurately. **

Some writers just don’t know how to write.


15 posted on 12/29/2014 4:09:08 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Al Mohler is a blessing in our era. He will as easily offer fair criticism to his brand of Christianity as he will the broader culture. He really seems to be an honest man. Rare.


16 posted on 12/29/2014 4:12:28 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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***...blockbuster discoveries.*** WOW!

“Pertness and ignorance may ask in three lines a question that will take thirty pages of learning and ingenuity to answer;
And when this is done, the same question shall be triumphantly asked again the next year, as if nothing had ever been written on the subject.” -Bishop Horne 1831


17 posted on 12/29/2014 4:19:09 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Tonight, on the History Channel, begins a 3-part series called “REVELATION, END OF DAYS”

Newsweek, in its feeble attempt to be relevant, headlines a story about the Bible.

Hollywood struggles with attempts to make Bible-oriented films to attract the public.

This, after nearly a century of relativistic, critical scholarship attempting to to tell that world that the Bible is “Irrelevant”.

Interesting.......


18 posted on 12/29/2014 4:20:02 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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LOL

“One fool can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.”


19 posted on 12/29/2014 4:20:26 PM PST by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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Bookmarked.


20 posted on 12/29/2014 4:24:43 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Just say NO to Bush in 2016.)
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