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Originally Posted by GurnBlanston
Thanks Teri. just ordered the book at amazon.
The one thing my studies in scripture taught me was that the "Bible" is not an authority on anything. It's simply a guide.
Conservatives would know this if they didn't cliff note the book.
sidenote: The Bible is the most shoplifted book.
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Really?
I would think it would be so easy to get one free.
Here's another book that was GREAT! Bart Erman's one of the foremost theologians of our time, and one of the few people on the planet who can read coptic. He's studies the oldest known texts of the Bible and found a lot of scribes have intentionally (probably pursuant to who ever hired them to copy it) and unintentionally added and subtracted texts, and it gives a history of just how we ended up with the 4 books of the Bible we have that is really amazing:
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind ... - Google Book Search