1. The word of God is Jesus Christ, and the words of the Bible tell us about
that Word.
Therefore, when we study the words of the Bible we always look behind, in,
and through those words for God's word - Jesus Christ.

2. No Christian has a monopoly on understanding either God's Word or the
words of the scripture.
This includes biblical scholars and the most unlearned Christian.
All of us must listen to one another as we seek to understand the richness
of God's gifts.

3. We must assume everyone has Christian integrity and not accuse one
another of being unchristian, no matter how unusual their opinions are.

4. We must further assume that we will arrive at different understandings of
portions of Scripture and that will not disturb god as much as it will some
of us.

5. Few of us will now Hebrew or Greek, and we will therefore need to use a
variety of English versions to try and understand the text.

6. while we accept our differences, we do not feel that those differences
are unimportant, or that they should be ignored or treated as if they did
not matter.

On Sep 5, 12:19 am, "curmudgeon" bresnan.net> wrote:
(snip)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_programme_of_Iran

On Sep 4, 10:12 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

Are you implying that we should have only one religion, one that
doesn't let Iran have nukes, or that we should have no religion and
Iran don't get no nukes?

On Sep 5, 2:23 am, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:

Are you implying that man isn't an ignoble savage?

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:19:59 -0600, curmudgeon wrote:

Jesus Christ did not write a single word of the Bible

The life of Jesus Christ is a very small part of the Bible and his life
is re-told four times with redundancies.

The most direct teaching of Jesus Christ occurs during the Sermon On The
Mount. He declares a "New Testament". This can be taken to mean a
declaration of a new religion yet no christian believes in the principles
of this Sermon enough to let them stand as absolute.

The principle:

"You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate
your enemy.'
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good
to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and
persecute you..."

.. was important enough that his death was this principle put to practice.

On Sep 5, 7:33 am, ZerkonX X.net> wrote:

You should define
"7 Principles for Bible Study for the Christian".
Remember - the Jews - whose story and whose God this is - do not accept
Jesus as being the genuine Messiah or Teacher.
The Divine prophesies were not fulfilled by Jesus.
Neither do they accept any trinity - or threefold God.
Jews believe in the one God of the Bible - this God blatantly prefers Jews
and he slaughters and kills Gentiles (even babies) in order to protect and
preserve Jews - but Jewish people do not believe in any kind of Divinity
with regard to Jesus.
THE BORG

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