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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (82978)	9/8/2008 7:09:34 PM
From: Katelew	Respond to of 541648

Seminole.....I have no idea where the sense in that is. This story is one of many OT stories that are bewildering for the most part. To me, though, the most intriguing part of the story is that God allowed himself to be bargained with. If you recall, Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt at the end of the story. I think that's a metaphor for the whole Old Testament.....take much of what you read with a grain of salt, lol! But see I don't believe the Bible is complete, historically accurate, or contains the entire word of God. The OT is just a record of a rather primitive group of people (the ancient Jews) who were struggling to transition from a belief system based on pagan rituals, etc. to trusting in a living God that communicated with them. It's a very incomplete history. You have prophets referring to other prophets but you have none of their writings....plus there are chronological gaps. Studying it as just a literary text, one can see that many of the stories were passed down in an oral tradition and also contain some pagan elements.