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Re: The Brick Testament parts the Red Sea
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 4 Dec 2002 00:43:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> You really could have done the BT in a
> non-offensive way, steering clear of the "controversial" stories, but it
> appears that that wasn't really a concern of yours.
Hey all. Huge long thread here that sprang up while I was away. I'm
tempted to respond to about every other post, but fear it's a fruitless
quagmire. Rather than hit any of the theological points of issue, I just
wanted to address this one, which is purely about Lego presentation.
John, I would disagree here. Which are the non-controversial stories? If
you are referring to the prostitute by the side of the road (Genesis 38),
etc, I might say, well, okay. That's a pretty odd and relatively
inconsequential story to most Christians. But if you're talking about Abram
and Isaac, or the Plagues, or the Cross, probabably 3 of the most
"controversial" stories to many, you can't have the Bible without them. I
would say that in Genesis and Exodus Brendan has done a pretty good job of
telling the straight story. I do think the editing together of passages
from Paul's epistles is fairly agenda-driven, but I also think it's fair to
say that that is how non-Christians might read those (and, sadly, how many
Christian's have read those).
If we take out all of the "non-controversial" stories, I think we're left
with a list of begats. And given that the act of begetting is at least
PG-13, we probably wouldn't have that either.
Bruce
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| (...) I'm curious as to how you think the BT is worthwhile to a Christian by showing that what they believe in is silly (I can see why is it useful to *you*-- a "creative" expression of your rejection of your perceived silliness of Christianity, and (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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