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To: jbe who wrote (34456)	4/11/1999 11:55:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Joan, I don't use the word 'Christian' in the restricted sense to which you allude. I was trying to say that even the the most fundamental of the fundamentalists have a hard time swallowing much of what is in the Bible. That's why I took issue with Sidney's comments about morality and the Bible. And that is why I believe that the Bible is reflective of our sense of morality at the time it was written. And that is why I brought up the issue of God being bellicose, deceitful, jealous etc., and suddenly finding a "revisionist" vision of God (in the form of Jesus) presented in the New Testament. I think it is simply a case of man continually recreating God. Who was it that said "God created man in his own image, and then man returned the compliment." -- Anatole France? I was surprised by this part of your post: Whoa, there. What Christian believers? There are almost as many Christian beliefs as there are Christian believers. Are you suggesting that there are Christian sects who do not accept the Old Testament as part of the Bible? Note-- I am not suggesting a literal, fundamentalist belief. I also do not define Christianity in monolithic terms. That was why I was surprised at your comment about the irrelevance of what Jesus actually said. It is central to my thesis to understand the absence of knowledge about Jesus' actual words and deeds because that lends credence to the idea of man creating his own God and his own morality at the time the gospels were written. And in contrasting the OT God to the one portrayed in the gospels we get a sense of how man's sense of morality has changes. TTFN, CTC