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Subject: ...a wonderful book of surprises, a revelation of mystery... "There is no book like the Bible. It is a miracle of literature, a perennial spring of wisdom, ***a wonderful book of surprises, a revelation of mystery***, an infallible guide of conduct, an unspeakable source of comfort."Samuel Chadwick TIA |
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off: see also Certain interpretations of the moral decisions in the Bible are considered ethically questionable by many modern groups. Some of the passages (generally ones related to Mosaic Law) most commonly criticized include the subjugation of women, religious intolerance, use of capital punishment as penalty for violation of Mosaic Law, sexual acts like incest although most types of incestuous relationships were condemned after the events of Noah's flood,[9] toleration of the institution of slavery in both Old and New Testaments,[10] obligatory religious wars and the order to commit the genocide of the Canaanites and the Amalekites. Some religious groups support the Bible's decisions by reminding critics that they should be judged by the standards of the time and that Mosaic Law applied to the Israelite people (who lived before the birth of Jesus) but does not apply to Christians. Other religious groups, mostly conservatives, see nothing wrong with the Bible's judgments.[11] Other critics of the Bible, such as Friedrich Nietzsche who popularized the phrase "God is dead,"[12] have criticized the morality of the New Testament, regarding it as weak and conformist-oriented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Bible#Ethics_in_the_Bible |
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