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To: Eclectus who wrote (83118)	3/10/2002 7:26:50 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 117013

P.S. Why the "Rarebird a.k.a Eclectus..."? Nothing personal. It's just that I believe the two pen names refer to the one and selfsame person who is not averse to agreeing to disagree with other posters. By the way, I believe the Israeli prime minister I referred to in my last post to you was (?) more usually known as Menachem Begin. (If I am not mistaken, Binyamin was also one of his names.) As a science man, I tend to give credit to new findings until they are proven to be wrong/false. The findings of the scholarly rabbis have been held in suspended judgement for quite some time until recently. To me, that means quite a lot. That the rabbis themselves have come up with seemingly nihilistic views regarding the authenticity or accuracy of the accounts in the Old Testament is something that deserves a closer scrutiny and not to be dismissed offhand with a "Come on,..etc." By the way, get hold of the book, "Who Wrote The Bible" by Richard Elliott Friedman, available at bn.com or at amazon.com. It's very readable and enjoyable. Also note:- 1. Moses was most probably not the author of the "Pentateuch" (First 5 books of the OT.) "Proof":- Last few sentences say that there was no nobler person than Moses. What a conceit of the Prophet! Also description of Moses death. We have yet to meet a person describing his or her death. 2. Moses did not cross the "Red Sea". Red Sea is a mis-translation of a sea of reeds, meaning a swamp. Archaelogy does not support the much hallowed event. 3. The world created in 6 literal days is sheer nonsense. Cosmologists, astronomers, etc. have determined that it took 15 billion years. An excellent exhibit in New York City shows that modern civilization is a literal hair's breadth in scale of several trips round the museum representing the age of evolution of the earth and living things. So, IMHO, the ancient books of OT cannot be taken literally. The mythologies in the OT teach us important and serious lessons of life, not scientific truths ! Too bad! Jehovah Witnesses so stubbornly adhere to the OT that they forbid blood transfusion even though blood circulation was discovered in the recent past and blood transfusion is known to save lives. The book, "Who Wrote The Bible" will confound fundamental Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and also Seventh Day Adventists, Mormons of Latter Day Saints, Jehovah Witnesses, Roman Catholics, Neo-Pentecostalists, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham (the racist and not-so-truthful, exposed by Nixon tapes) and company.