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To: Grainne who wrote (13972)	4/13/1998 8:13:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 39621

Christine, You said: <<Modern people have sensibly dropped a lot of rules and prohibitions written thousands of years ago in a superstitious, early tribal culture, because they make no sense at all today.>> That is a great effort at double speak. You have made the people who practice and approve of the practice of sin to sound like the sensible ones. Actually God changes not and what He said was evil thousands of years ago is still evil today. What we have today is a society increasing it's distance from God and "calling evil good" which is one of the signs of the last days before Jesus's return. Bob

To: Grainne who wrote (13972)	4/17/1998 5:42:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Dwight's mind is obviously totally closed on this issue, as is evidenced by his refusal to even look at them, but I think anyone who read these urls with any openness might begin to understand that some of the things that people believe the Bible says were distorted by the problems of translating early languages. I might also point out that if you are going to take the Bible absolutely literally, then you should do it wholeheartedly. Since you bring up my name in a post to someone else, I feel I have a right to respond. I recall you touting the belief that an agnostic is able to make superior moral decisions because they have to think vs. looking for guidance from the Bible. Now you seem to be saying that people who believe in the Bible should not think and ponder all that is written in the Bible, but should instead mindlessly follow every single verse very literally. It is an absurd notion people have that so-called "fundamentalist" Christians take everything in the Bible literally. The holy spirit will guide a person to see what is meant by various parts of the Bible, and in fact the Bible itself says (I think in one of Apostle Paul's letters) essentially that spiritual benefits and spiritual lessons can be revealed in all of what is written there, if a person opens their ears and heart to be receptive and seeking of those spiritual benefits. And yes, I believe that moral guidelines are spiritual benefits, when applied to a person's life.