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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (96538)	4/27/2003 7:22:18 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<Thanks. I guess I should put laziness aside and get started on it. It is going to take me a while to get to the answers I am looking for. But whatever I learn in the process will be well worth it.>>> The answer is that two young gentlemen of power and persuasion have daringly turned the tide of Terrorism in the 21 st Century and are rapidly destroying their organizations and funding. Those who interpreted the scriptures wrongly gained no support from Allah. Neither OBL or Saddam will be worshipped as greater or more divine than Mohammed. They have become damn poor examples of success in any mans language And those who once more call on Allah to destroy all peoples of another religion will not be welcomed in the ME. Stay tuned for the results of the WMD verifications- they will be found. Sig@newdealwithnewdeck.com

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (96538)	4/27/2003 7:47:48 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Here is a link to get you started on the history of the Bible as a collection of separate books. To make it a little more interesting, you should be aware that Roman Catholics have a somewhat different version of the Bible than Protestants. The Douay version of the Bible has several books which are not in the King James version. net2.netacc.net One of the branches of Christian religious scholarship is studying the authenticity of various books of the Bible, their origin, the meanings of the words, etc. Christians (and, as I understand it, Jews) accept the fact that human beings can make transcription errors and mistakes in translation. I was surprised to learn that this type of analysis does not exist in Muslim religious scholarship. Apparently, it is dogma that the Koran is the literal word of God, and God would not allow mistakes. So, non-Muslims do this type of research about the Koran, but Muslims don't. And, of course, there are identifiable human errors in various versions of the Koran, as well. BTW, I don't really have the answer to your question, just some guesses. For many what is the most impressive thing about Jesus isn't His ideas, but the fact that He could work miracles, and had a supernatural connection with God. So placing Him in the context of a long tradition of prophecy makes Him more authentic somehow. To Christians, Jesus isn't just a venerable person with very good ideas, He's the King of the Jews, who are God's Chosen People. He is the fulfillment of the prophecies, the promised Messiah. The Jews, of course, were (and are) admirable people, well educated, with good reasoning powers, worthy of emulation and even envy. Their culture, like Athenian culture, and like the culture that produced Maimounides, and like the culture that produced your namesake, and like the culture that produced the Buddha, stand as beacons through centuries of darkness.