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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (9827)	9/18/2001 11:21:17 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

There are also the ethnic Albanians who are I believe mostly Muslim and it is thought that they are the real indigenous people of the region Them too.... Could be like Basques, Celts, Sami (Lapps) small pockets pushed to corners by expansion of German, Latin, Slav speakers. The New Testament is more about forgiveness and the old about obedience it seems to me. ie love God as opposed and Fear and Love God. I'd better go read the book of Revelations <g>. I don't have a copy of the New Testament at home, though I do have the Book of Mormon :) One paragraph from Deutoronomy commands (!) the Jews to love God. It is read as the Shema prayer. God is seen as loving his people, he will never destroy them just rebuke them for doing wrong and bless them when they return to the true path... That's the message I get from it. Remember that the Old Testament was written by a weak small nation surrounded by large enemies (Egypt, Babylon etc.) and an erratic climate where it only rains for a few months but some years that rain fails too. And they have abandoned the idea that maybe Yam is fighting Baal so he can't bring the rain this year, or maybe Marduk God of Babylon (yes Babylon is named after El but apaprently the chief God changed as it did in Jerusalem) is having a go at El so their enemies are strong. Everything has to fit into the one monotheistic explanation. Things have evolved though in all these religions over time and continue to do so. David