Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:43:25 +1000 From: Ian Pulsford <Ianjp@optusnet.com.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror) Message-ID: <3BD19B9D.C290DEE3@optusnet.com.au> References: <20011004132949.D16297@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010924170815.0180aee8@threespace.com> <20010925001027.A750@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20011003210717.0442cb20@localhost> <20011004132949.D16297@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20011019203955.0464d920@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > > Many religious sects and splinter groups, throughout time, have > adopted popular "holy" books but picked and chosen which parts > to accept as binding upon them. A good recent example of an > unconventional Christian sect is the Worldwide Church of God, > whose founder, radio preacher Edwin Armstrong, believed that > many injunctions in the Biblical "Old Testament" should be > honored. The group celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles, but > not Christmas, which they believed -- probably correctly -- > to be an adaptation of pagan winter solstice rituals rather > than the actual anniversary of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The bible, as we have it today, is a selection made by the early Roman church and later revisions. Many texts didn't make the cut, now known as apocryphal or non-cannonical texts. Even modern catholic and protestant bibles are different. IanP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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