What the Good Book Didn't Say: Popular Myths and Misconceptions About the BibleCitadel Press, 2003 - 322 páginas When it comes to the Bible, you have no idea what you don't really know. For ages, misconceptions about what it supposedly says and signifies have been passed down, repeated, and taken as Gospel. Now, for true believers and skeptics alike, Christian author J. Stephen Lang dispels common misunderstandings, shatters the inventions of modern translator, and corrects misguided assumptions by going to the source: the Bible itself. |
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The Top Ten Lies and Misconceptions | 5 |
Just How Many Evils Are Rooted in Money? | 11 |
The Men Legends Are Made Of | 18 |
Falling for Each Other After Dinner | 25 |
How Mary Magdalene Might Have Made a Living | 33 |
What the Politically Correct Crowd Says | 43 |
The Burden That Personkind Bears | 49 |
Polluted by Religion? | 58 |
Nine Angels Swarming | 175 |
Taking Themselves Lightly | 178 |
Imagine the Size of Those Oysters | 184 |
Harping on Those Golden Streets | 190 |
One Strike Theyre Out | 197 |
Good Cop Bad CopGood God Mad God? | 204 |
That LittleKnown Process of Divine Adoption | 210 |
Misreading the Divine Commandments | 217 |
A Great Story for a Buddy Movie | 68 |
Saying Punish My Enemies God With a Smile | 74 |
Galileo the Earth the Sun and Some Really | 89 |
The Worlds Most Recycled Story of Wetness | 95 |
The Name That Resembles Hobbits | 103 |
Truly Bare or Barely? | 109 |
So Many Meanings for Adultery | 115 |
Burdened With Contradictions | 122 |
Humanly High or Devilishly Low? | 128 |
Lawyers the Usual Targets | 136 |
Watching Yourself Since Youre Being Watched | 143 |
That Cussed Fisherman | 149 |
What Kind of Footprints in the Ashes? | 155 |
Call Em Whatever Theyre All Nasty | 162 |
Israels Most Famous Box and Harrison Ford | 169 |
Sweatin to the Scriptures | 225 |
A Tasteless Place to Shoot Dice | 233 |
Organ Piano Kazoo or Just Humming? | 239 |
A Perfectly Perplexing Command | 251 |
Pauls Marital Loophole | 257 |
What the Churches Fuss Over | 263 |
Getting Right About Rites | 272 |
Among the Preachers Favorite Topics | 279 |
What Every Good Prayer Ends a Prayer With | 284 |
Was It Shear Malice? | 292 |
Plain Truth About the Landscape | 299 |
The Only Verse the Gourmet Ever Memorized | 308 |
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