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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: The Bible As A Rorschach
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.164029.7377@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Homebrew Virtual Reality Labs
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- References: <1992Dec31.012405.25726@arden.linet.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:40:29 GMT
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- Joe Beiter (joeb@arden.linet.org) wrote:
- : In article <9212291743.AA21979@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com> I3150101@DBSTU1.RZ.TU-BS
- .DE (Benedikt Rosenau) writes:
-
- [death of innocents, people born with sin, martyrdom, and other fun topics
- deleted]
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- : >>>but even when one buys into Christianity, to say that he *has fulfilled th
- em*
- : >>>is counterfactual.
- : >
- : >>in what way?
- : >
- : >He has not fulfilled them. Jesaia 9:6-9 is one example, if memory serves.
- :
- : I've not heard of the book of "Jesaia". Is that the Hebrew name or Greek
- : or just a really bad typo? :-)
-
- OK, how about Mark 9:1. Or are you saying that there is a 2000 year old person
- walking around somewhere?
-
- :
- :
- : >Those who take the Bible as a Rorschach, interprete the parts of what we are
- : >supposed to see symbolically, too.
- :
- : That would be a very incorrect way of approaching the Bible. The Bible says
- : that we are to expect lies and deception from our own hearts. To approach
- : the Bible as a Rorschach we would have to seek out what is in US not the
- : Bible itself.
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