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bible, genesis, slate.com
Rape, circumcision, massacre
Slate.com editor David Plotz is blogging the Bible. A “lax but well-educated Jew,” Plotz is reading Genesis himself for the first time, without the filter of rabbis or commentary. No more watered down Sunday School versions for him. He starts with the rape of Jacob’s daughter and the resulting massacre of a town by his […]
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bible, deutoronomist, god, pat-robertson, unbiblical
Why Pat Robertson is unbiblical
01.06.06 | Permalink | 11 Comments(Originally posted on Healing Hagar.) The dominant theology of a good deal of the stories of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible is simple enough: please god and you’ll be blessed, displease god and you’ll suffer. You can see it as early as Genesis. Adam and Eve displease god and get kicked out of Eden. Humanity displeases […]
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bible, jesus, word-of-god
Bible the “Word of God?”
11.17.05 | Permalink | 9 CommentsThe evangelical claim that the Bible is the “Word of God” is a curious one. In the first chapter of John’s Gospel we learn that Christ is the Word of God. If Christ is the Word of God made flesh, then is the Bible the Word of God made ink? Yet for all of evangelicals’ […]
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