[geeks] Re: [rescue] It's official, the U.S. is screwed for4 more years

[Michael Horton]

> The Bible is a canonized record of the works of many people different
people, written in many different contexts.

* and, therefore, must be examined within their cultural melieu;
historical, political, governmental, and personal settings.
* most people either don't know how to do this (remember all those high
school literature classes and the books they choose!)
* it can be hard work and drudgery to get to the point of the text and
many do not do the hard work.



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From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf Of Charles Shannon Hendrix
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 6:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: [rescue] It's official, the U.S. is screwed
for4 more years


Tue, 09 Nov 2004 @ 12:02 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:

> The thing with a lot of these "moral" decisions made based on the
> Bible is that half the time, they get'em wrong anyway.  Of course,
> this is hardly surprising when you consider the idea that the
> Authorized King James V Bible is the verbatim word of God and
> literally true even when it contradicts itself.

> For example:  The Old Testament, commonly regarded as the more
> barbaric and bloody part of the Bible, says (or is almost universally
> mistranslated as saying) "Thou shalt not kill."  But it also says,
> "Thou shalt not suffer a well-poisoner to live" ('witch' is a
> mistranslation), and "If a man comes to kill you, then rise up and
> kill him."

The Bible is a canonized record of the works of many people different
people, written in many different contexts.

Drawing absolute comparisons from one section to another is useless.

Keep in mind that English and American law are based on the Ten
Commandments, not the rest of the Bible.

Finally, your analysis is incorrect because it ignores the context of
the two verses.

It would be like trying to equate the law regarding murder versus self
defense.

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