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[RICHARD]

And to begin with, how in the world could I answer a question in behalf or the wrong-doings of other people?

A great start would be to ask questions and seek answers.

When I ask a question I look for the answers.

I check many sources and come up with what is sometimes a half-truth.

But I try to find out.

I saw a picture in Fridays L.A. times.
It was from an overseas protest-someone held up a sign that said-

Europe's the cancer-Islam is the answer.

Like, what was the question??

It's all a matter of holding up the mirror to one's face.

We all don't like what we see, but there are times when we have to admit we aren't the most attractive beings on the planet.

[lbaker]

Oh pish posh aren't there enough interpretations of "the written word" to keep us all busy? Whose writing? In which language? Whose interpretation? What about interpreting the scrawles on the walls? Oh, I digress.. that would bring up cave men and "intellegent design" hey, right Written word? How about what we hear and follow in our hearts ~ this is plum silly

[Lady's Human]

PCB, why do Christians sometimes take the Bible with a grain of salt?

The books were originally written in a smattering of ancient hebrew, aramaic, ancient greek, and a few other languages. They were translated into Latin, then translated into various other languages from the latin translations. Then they were translated into English from the "original" sources, and translated yet again into other languages. All this leads to some bitter arguments over what was said by whom when, and what the context was. There are sects of Christianity that are fully determined that THEY and only THEY have the true translation, and they have the copyright on how to worship. I don't think the Russian Orthodox or Greek orthodox churches have spoken to the Vactican peacefully in a few centuries, and we won't even get into the Coptic church.

One of my favorite faux pas from bible translations comes from a mid 20th century attempt to translate the bible into Arabic. When the translation was proofed, they found that they had published several thousand Bibles with a "minor" error due to the translation. The error? On the fifth day, God created armored tanks. Oopsie!