Posted on 10/14/2004 11:16:45 PM PDT by txroadkill
I Noticed Kerry looked up a couple of Bible verses to recite during the debates and I’m not real sure how he was trying to use them in what he was trying to say. The President, however, has not quoted verse in the debates, but a belief that comes from a lot of verses, specifically a belief that freedom is a gift from God. I thought I would post a few of those in hopes that maybe Kerry might read one or two of them. Hopefully he will pay special attention to the Final verse. Sorry for the vanity guys
"And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possessions, and each of you shall return to his family.” –Leviticus 25:7
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim LIBERTY to the Captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.” -Isaiah 61:1
“Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the spirit of the Lord is, There is LIBERTY.” -2 Corinthians 3:17
“But he who looks into the perfect law of LIBERTY and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.” -James 1:25
“Therefore Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men- As FREE, yet not using LIBERTY as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God” -1 Peter 2:13-16
FWIW, I am a practicing Catholic.
For the most part Catholics can not recite specific passages from the bible. Maybe a few lines but Catholics as a whole do not study the bible trying to pull real meaning from it's passages. We have the two readings and the Gospel given by the priest. We may have some disection of today's Gospel in the sermon but numbers and versus are rarely used.
So Kerry's reciting of any Bible passages is learned for the sake of the debates...IMHO.
Edison
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