Ä Area: InfiReligi ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Msg#: 29 Date: 07-04-96 12:58 From: Antryg Windrose Read: Yes Replied: No To: Reniatria Mark: Subj: Changing the Bible ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ -=> 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. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR] -!- Synchronet+SBBSecho v1.10 ! Origin: ZA-ZEN! - Healdsburg, CA - 707.431.7640 (1:2002/190)