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ONCE YOU make the (very justified) decision to reject the idea that the Bible is the literal word of God, then it takes a very strange intellectual contortion to then say that the Bible - shaped as it was by barely literate scribes and ambitious community... ...full story at meoldchina

from meoldchina on Wed, Sep 05 2007

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10 Mar 08 visit Pastor John Liu 2 Peter Bible Study Ch.1  »  YouTube videoBible Study Chinese
08 Jun 07 visit Feature: Bible ministry exhibition tells China's Bible story  »  People's Daily As thousands of German Protestants gather on Friday for the largest biennial Protestant event, the 31st German Protestant Church Day, an exhibition of China's Bible ministry tries to tell a China Bible story rarely truthfully described to the outside...
07 Jul 08 visit Bible to be available free during Games  »  People's Daily Athletes, officials, spectators and tourists can pick up the Bible or just the New Testament for free during the Olympic Games next month. Tens of thousands of copies of the Bible, the New Testament and booklets with just the four Gospel ...
29 Jan 09 visit A Bible for Beijing  »  China Beat By Pierre FullerA few weeks ago my mother learned at her Greenwich, Conn., church that, beyond church grounds, Bibles cannot be purchased in the People’s Republic. Her informant was a man from the Bible Society of Singapore who gave an evening talk on t...
09 Nov 07 visit Roundup: The Bible controversy, Tony Blair and the Blogger Conference  »  Shanghaiist We were right. The Olympic Bible ban controversy would spill over. And it has, in a most unbelievably crazy fashion. More ill-informed Christian and Catholic news media have given legs to the story. Somewhere along the way, the rumour became a fact, and a...
06 Aug 08 visit And now, the Catholic Olympic Bible  »  Shanghai Scrap We’ve come a long, long way since the bogus Olympic Bible Ban stories of last fall. First, the Chinese Protestants publish a special, bi-lingual edition (50,000, complete with the Olympic seal on the cover) for distribution during the Games. And now...

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