From the days of King Josiah of Judah, the Bible has been a mechanism to manipulate the people. He used it to further his ambitions in a post-Assyrian world. Emperor Constantine used it to control the Roman Empire. King James. Mohammed, Joseph Smith and many, many, others have amended, rewritten, expanded, contracted, restructured, and totally reshaped this document and its derivatives for their own ends. And all in the name of God. The one, universal, all-knowing, all-powerful, but apparently ambivalent, God. At most, only one of them was right. At most!!
Now we have our latest divinely inspired wannabe, conservative activist’s Phyllis Schafly’s little boy Andy. His Conservative Bible Project needs to get all of that liberalism and socialism out of the Bible. This Bible, the King James version specifically, is not conservative enough? This was a bible that was fashioned to meet the Puritan’s seal of approval. The Puritans!!! Too conservative? One begins to wonder who Mr. Schafly is trying to please; God, or his mother!
To find the word of God in the bible these days may be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Worse, or perhaps better, it may be more like searching through manure trying to find the pony. At least there is the optimism that there might be a pony. Too many men have placed there imprint, or imprimatur, upon this book. If God had put it together, it has been long ago torn asunder.
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