--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In a message dated 9/13/07 6:51:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > All of you Oliver North, Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, Pat > > Robertson, James Dobson fundamentalist biblical phonies, if > > you say Leviticus is God's word on Gays and Lesbians, than the > > entire book is obviously God's word to anyone with an I.Q. > > above 3 So LIVE IT. > > > > WALK THE TALK...OR GET OFF IT. > > Something William Edelen doesn't tell us here is that the laws > of Moses were instructions from God to set the Jew apart from > the rest of the world. Most rabbis know this as did Paul. The > early Christian church agreed that the gentile believers were > not required to follow all of the laws of Moses but were to > observe the Ten Commandments, abstain from sexual immorality( > the Bible considers homosexuality as *sexual immorality*), > and not eat meat from sacrifices to pagan gods.< William > Edelen has a reputation as a New Age teacher who calls > himself a Christian. He picks and chooses what he wants to > believe and disregards the rest, kind of like what he just > accused the above ministers of doing, but without Biblical > basis or foundation. If his respect for the scriptural source > of Christianity is so low, how is it that he calls himself a > Christian, and a minister of the faith, at that?
By the way, MDixon, I've been meaning to compliment you on your posts like this for a while now. While we may disagree on things political, and while the whole Bible and Jewish and Christian thang don't do squat for me personally, it is clear that you have done your homework on these matters, and so I always stop to read the posts in which you weigh in on these subjects. In *my* opinion, the entire Bible, including the New Testament, is composed of the words of Ordinary Guys, not God. God did *not* compose the psalms or write the words in any of the books of the Bible. Men did. They just *told* other men that God had "written them" by inspiring *them* to write them. Same for the Gita, and for most of the works of the Vedas, and most of the sayings and talks attributed to the Buddha. None of us even has a clue as to whether they had anything whatsoever to *do* with the teachers they are attributed to, because the traditions that spawned them were oral for centuries before the first versions were written down. They're hearsay. And yet people relate to them as if they are the literal words of God. Go figure, eh. I look at them all as entertaining fiction that might just contain some interesting and useful ideas on how to live one's life. Do I believe that God said from on high, "Covet not thy neighbor's wife's ass, or *his* ass either, for that matter?" No way. That was a bunch of Ordinary Guys attributing their own hangups and cultural taboos to God and thus trying to make them sound more authoritative.
