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  Msg#: 29                                           Date: 07-04-96  12:58
  From: Antryg Windrose                              Read: Yes    Replied: No 
    To: Reniatria                                    Mark:                     
  Subj: Changing the Bible
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 -=> Quoting Minga to Dirty Lil' Elf #145 @1318 <=-
 
 Re> Which one do you study?  In it, what is the first line?  What is the 
 Re> sixth commandment?  If the first line is "In the Beginning, God
 Re> created the Heavens and the Earth" we've already got a problem.  In
 Re> Hebrew the line is "Bereshiet bara Elohim et haShamim v'et haAretz"
 Re> Bereshiet=Beginning, bara=created, haShamim=the Heavens, v'haAretz=and
 Re> the Earth.  No problem righ Well there is one.  Elohim.  the -im
 Re> ending in hebrew is a plural, so God  would be inaccurate.

OK, so it could be rendered "To begin with, Gods created heaven, Gods
created Earth" -- that has a nice ring to it, and it demonstrates the
Mesopotamian origins of Jewish belief, eh?  Or is it Egyptian?  I keep
forgetting which of Gen.1 and Gen.2 is Babylonian, which is Egyptian.
My senility is advancing...

 Mi> Hal Lindsay, "The Late Great Planet Earth", and it got me interested
 Mi> in the prophets of old.  I started reading the Bible.  Amazing how
 Mi> clear it was!!!  I've been reading it ever since, and will continue to
 Mi> do so. God never intended for us to be ignorant, or just blindly follow
 Mi> some religion or some religious leader.  His WORD is very explicit and
 Re> 
 Re> So instead of taking your parish priest on blind faith, you're taking
 Re> Mr. Lindsay's word instead.  If the Judeo-Christian God didn't intend
 Re> his  followers to blindly follow his religion, why did he give
 Re> unexplainable laws?  For instance, check your labels on your clothing.
 Re> . . mixed fibers  are against the rules (Leviticus) 

And pissing against the wall of the Temple lands ya in Hell. [Sorry, I
forget the citation.]  But while many rules are sensible within their
context, others can be construed... oddly.  Thus, in Gen.1:29 : "God
said, 'See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the
face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall
have them for fruit'."  Seems pretty straightforward, huh?

But since kelp and mosses [used to thicken dairy products] and mushrooms
do NOT bear seed, consuming them is stealing from the deity, thus all
ice-cream eaters and shiitake-suckers are Hell-bound, eh?  Not to mention
navel oranges, truffles, ferns, ANY plant that's seedless or sub-surface
[not "upon the face of the earth"].

Gotta watch them rules.  They're worse than some wargames I've played.

... But I don't WANT to do more before 9 than everyone by 5.

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