nospam{at}nospam.com wrote...
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> "Life is Hell"  wrote in message
> >
> > pia_sten{at}hotmail.com wrote...
> > >
> > > can anyone recomend a good book for a beginner wanting to study the
> > > bible?
> >
> > What's wrong with using the Bible, combined with prayer to gain
> > understanding into the meaning of troublesome passages as they occur?
> >
> > That's all you need.
>
> Not really.  You can pray until you are blue in the face, but the chances
> you'll get a direct revelation fro God as to who the Saducees, Caesar and
> Herod were are slim.  It's very unlikely God will reveal in a vision where
> Damascus is in relation to Jerusalem.

Guess it really gets down to what you're reading the Bible for,
doesn't it?  The original poster didn't say.  The person you're
replying to apparently assumed it was for spiritual reasons, and
you're apparently counter-assuming it was for history and geography.

> I'm curious:  do you read the Bible in the original languages?  I doubt it.
> I'm pretty sure you read a translation.  So... you read the product of other
> people's study of material outside of Scripture  (in case you didn't notice,
> the Bible doesn't include an Inspired Lexicon) but you'd suggest that
> someone else deprive themselves of the same.  that's pretty weak.
>
> Rufus

Speaking of weak, your examples are easily addressed by any decent
encyclopedia.

How about if you leave the pointless flaming for the alt.* groups?

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