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• 11-Year-Old Reporter Challenges Michelle Obama on ‘Government’ Role in Anti-Childhood Obesity Push

  March 13, 2012 at 2:36pm

  Wow, for the first time in my adult life, I’ve decided to eat healthy foods!

• California City Fines Couple for Holding Bible Study in Their Home

  September 20, 2011 at 1:36am

  In reply to barackem.

  Diane TX – You made some good points and one serious error. Mormons don’t have multiple wives. Some of them did back in the 1800′s, but they stopped that before the dawn of the 1900′s. It‘s now the 2000’s and a LONG time since Mormons sanctioned multiple wives. Apostates and derivatives may do that, but not the mainstream Mormon church. And the Mormons aren’t responsible for what offshoots of their religion do any more than Catholics are responsible for Lutherans.

• Americans Mistakingly Attribute Bible Verse to…Captain America?

  August 31, 2011 at 2:50pm

  So, who authorizes groups like the ABS to retranslate the Bible? Is it still considered “scripture” when they do this? How do we know they haven’t changed the meaning or context in some subtle or significant way?

  (When I compare the above “new translation” verse to the KJV of it, it seems significantly different. While I agree that “but not in despair” can mean something similar to “we never give up”, I wouldn’t call them equal.)

  When you consider that differing takes on what the Bible’s verse “really mean” is the basis for why there are so many different Christian religions, I’d think that a “retranslation” or “modernization” of the text would be frought with opportunities for disagreement…

• Obama Clarifies: ‘I Didn’t Say Change We Can Believe in TOMORROW’

  August 6, 2011 at 4:16pm

  Or step aside…

• Obama Clarifies: ‘I Didn’t Say Change We Can Believe in TOMORROW’

  August 6, 2011 at 4:12pm

  Good grief! Three years into his Presidency and he’s STILL harping on what he “inherited”.

  Ford inherited a messed up Office of the Presidency from Nixon, but I don’t remember him harping on that.

  Carter inherited a mess of an economy and talked about the need to change, but I don’t even remember HIM spending all of his time “blaming someone else” for the problem. Instead, he tried in his own (inept) way to fix it.

  Reagan inherited that mess and didn’t keep harping back to it. I don’t even remember Clinton constantly harping back to the past. Instead, they looked at what they had and did what they felt best to move forward. I didn’t always agree with them, but I’ve learned to appreciate them for not constantly pointing out the “terrible mess” they “inherited” or whatever words you want to put there.

  It’s old.

  Deal with it.

  Stop whining and excusing.

  Lead already!

• 70 Ancient Metal Books Could be ‘Major Discovery of Christian History’

  March 31, 2011 at 11:20am

  In reply to KeithOlbermann.

  In essence, I want to agree with you. There is much good in the Bible and it contains the Word of God. But, I can’t agree with the claim that it is complete, uneditied, untouched, or that nothing is missing from it. The Bible itself speaks of other books that seem to be considered scriptural and that the original writers were familiar with as they wrote their own sections. As grateful as I am for the many who have sacrificed over the centuries to bring us the Bible in its current state, I fear they were not successful in preserving 100% of what could have, or even should have, been included, especially when you consider the many committees that met at various times to vote on what to include and what to omit.

  Here are some references to specific books mentioned in the Bible that aren’t in the current Bible: Book of the Covenant (as referenced in Ex. 24:4,7), the Book of the Wars of the Lord (Numbers 21:14), the Book of Jasher (Joshua 10:13; II Samuel 1:18), a Book of Statutes (I Sam. 10:25), the Book of the Acts of Solomon (I Kings 11:41), the books of Nathan and Gad (I Chronicles 9:29; 12:15; 13:22), the Book of Shemiah the Prophet and the Book of Iddo the Seer (II Chronicles 12:15), the Book of Jehu (II Chronicles 20:34), the Sayings of the Seers of Hosiah’s Chronicle (II Chronicles 33:19), epistles of Paul to the Corinthians (I Corinthians 5:9) the Ephesians (Ephesians 3:3) and the Laodicians (Colossians 4:16), an Epistle of Jude (Jude 3) and the Prophecies of Enoch (Jude 14).

  I could go on and on such as citing a reference in II Chronicles 26:22 that says that the acts of Uzziah “both in his first and in his last days” have been written by the prophet Isaiah. We do have Isaiah’s book of prophecy, but in it is found only two brief mentions of Uzziah. The first (Isaiah 1:1), simply states that Isaiah recorded events that took place in the days of four kings with Uzziah being one of them. The second (Isaiah 6:1), uses the year King Uzziah died as a reference point for a vision that Isaiah wished to relate. Surely these do not fulfill “the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last” which the Chronicles say Isaiah had already written.

  Regardless of what may be missing, the Bible still contains the Word of God. Finding more of the Word would be really cool. Maybe these metal books have some of that…