That is the title of a fascinating book written by Kenneth C. Davis. I was reading through it today as I indulged three of my favorite activities 1. Reading, 2. Drinking Coffee, 3. Pipe Smoking. These are a few of my favorite things. But back to the book, it really is very interesting and brings up some good questions and then works to answer them in a respectful way. Questions like "Who wrote the Old Testament?" and "Who really killed Goliath?" or "Did Jesus have brothers and Sisters?" These are all interesting questions in that they are not salvation questions but they call in to play what we are taught in Sunday school and in private Christian schools or at church. It really amazes me what people take for granted when they are taught things. I will most likely write more on this book as I move further into it but these were the thoughts in my head as I was reading today.
Friday, March 28, 2008
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Sounds good Lance! Any chance anything in the book will fit with our discussion tonight? If so I'd be interested to hear it and I'm sure Tom would too.
One of my most favourite interpreters of the Bible and its cultural implications is/was Emmett Fox.
He offers a refreshing perspective compared to all the double minded sex paranoid puritanically self-righteous god-botherers that now dominate the USA.
His Sermon on The Mount is a classic.
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