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In Israel, diggers unearth the Bible's bad guys
Charlotte observer ^ | 7-8-11

Posted on 07/08/2011 5:19:43 AM PDT by SJackson

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To: Westbrook

None of the sorry attempts you used convey the idea that the author was trying to convey, which is that the felling of a giant by a boy with a sling and a stone is something extraordinary.

That is why the story made it into the Bible in the first place. It is used to illustrate, that with Gods help, extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people.

You may wish to deny the extraordinary power of God by trying to change the meaning, but that’s what still taught in Sunday Schools all over the world. And the story of David and Goliath is used to illustrate the same.


81 posted on 07/10/2011 7:10:49 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle
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later read


82 posted on 07/10/2011 7:12:09 PM PDT by Ditter
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> You may wish to deny the extraordinary power of God by
> trying to change the meaning, but that’s what still
> taught in Sunday Schools all over the world. And the
> story of David and Goliath is used to illustrate the same.

We must not be speaking the same language.


83 posted on 07/10/2011 7:26:39 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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Nowadays, "biased reporting" has been transformed from an oxymoron to a redundancy.

Agreed. We need wholesale replacements in journalism as well as lawmaking.

84 posted on 07/11/2011 10:56:47 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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