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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: What picture does the Bible paint of God?
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Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 20:25:38 EDT
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> [Rick Frey]
> Not to start a whole flurry of discussion, but the damager-God idea has
> got alot of people talking about the Bible and the picture it paints of
> God. 
> [Much omitted]
> So what's the concensus?  I've heard from a lot of people who say the
> Bible makes God look bad and I'd like to hear what some of the parts are
> that paint this evil picture of God.  
----
I'll first admit that I know next to nothing about the Bible.  Despite that,
it might be relevant to Rick's question to state what it was that first
soured me on religion.  Up until the age of eight or nine, I was a true
believer.  Then, we learned about Joshua and the battle of Jericho.  I always
wondered what the people of Jericho had done to deserve their fate.  I didn't
have enough nerve to ask the teacher.  After that date, I never took anything
without questioning again.  It was the Bible itself that did it.  I lost
my belief in God before I knew even one other person who I knew didn't believe
either.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan


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