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To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (876)	9/19/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

Yes Tunica, the concept of the Sacred Written Word of God or "Sruti", in Sanskrit, goes back far. In the Hindu Vedas The Oldest and most sacred Written volumes of man ever recorded around 3,500 BCE (before Christian Era) this is the beginning... as far as we know of written sacred scriptures go. One of the VEDAs , dwarfs the christian bible, for subtlety, insight, reverance for things spiritual, and paths and hyms to God. very pale by comparison, but i do not mean to demean the christian/Catholic view that god's hand only wrote the bible... just that it wasn't a new concept. was done 3.5 thousand years before the birth of christianity...and done extremely well, and exquisitlely They , the Hindus, handed the catholics their religion on a platter. God has been alive and at work for much longer than yoU give him credit for. that's what you call=Evolution :-) 2MAr$

To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (876)	9/19/1999 11:04:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Thats fine Tunica but there are contradictions galore and some of the stories (such as noah's ark as has been mentioned here) take imagination to believe as strictly chronicled events. So, the reader has a choice, he/she can either accept your view that the Bible is "god's word"... but then that would require a sort of "looking the other way" when those anomalies occur... or they can do what many do which is read the Bible subjectively. I don't want to get in a heated argument about this, because I know how it goes, and as I say I love the Bible... but I don't think Noah's ark was the end all be all as to how animals arrived on this planet... although a flood likely happened... I choose to accept the bible as a spiritual document rather than a physical one... jmo though