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      <![CDATA[I really think it's time for another installment of the New Jeff International Real and Literal Word and Thoughts of God version of the bible.
        
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      <![CDATA[The bear was obviously framed to cover up some other, darker, sequence of events. Besides, everyone knows it's metaphorically unbearable to eat that many kids at once.
        
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      <![CDATA[Charles, the immediate context of this Bible story is that it is part of a journey undertaken by Elisha. So do go ahead and tell me where, later or earlier in the journey, in context, it explains the justification for the killing of 42 children who made fun of the prophet's bald head.
        
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      <![CDATA[CHG you can't have it both ways. One day you claim the bible says such ans such and that's the way it is. Then, like today for example, it's the sum total of all of the parts and not the individual parts.
        
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      <![CDATA[Jeff,<br>
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You have really good literary hermeneutics... A verse in the Bible is not an isolated phrase.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Packrat]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Funny, it seems every time I question or comment on some verse in the Bible, there's some expert who come along, calls it "probably one of the most misunderstood in The Bible" and proceeds to tell me what God really meant by it. Only problem is, sometimes these so-called Bible experts' stories differ drastically.<br>
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 11:26:52 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[How can you know the context? Were you there?
        
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      <![CDATA[When is Charles going to publish his theologically, linguistically, and historically correct version of the Bible?<br>
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Maybe after he comes out with his collection of quotes by the Founding Fathers?
        
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      <![CDATA[Once again, Charles offers a specious argument to justify the Bible's tales of random and petty divine brutality. The context is God sent bears to kill 42 children.
        
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      <![CDATA[CHG explained perfectly the verse that is probably one of the most misunderstood  in The Bible. Very informative.
        
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      <![CDATA[Packrat, the context is that the children were older 'paedeos'. The condemnation was a mockery of his prophetic office which was considered a holy calling.
        
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      <![CDATA[Satan needs an anal bleaching, and Smitty's can make that happen.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 09:18:25 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[I have it on good authority that Satan has a luxuriously full head of hair. Along with horns, of course.
        
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      <![CDATA[Could be that God is also bald and doesn't like bald jokes. They're the work of the devil!!
        
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      <![CDATA[That's my all time favorite Bible story, Jeff. A bunch of kids call the old fart "Baldy" so he sics 2 bears on 'em.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm thinking the real reason they put DSK in a straight jacket was to keep him from wearing holes in his Viagra inflated johnson.
        
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      <![CDATA[CHG is right again. It doesn't say not to judge.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 07:44:36 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Shorter CHG: "Yeah, so this is what God REALLY meant..."
        
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      <![CDATA[Randy,<br>
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You took your 'religious' perspective a tad bit out of context if you are quoting the Bible. You said that your plumb-line or standard is 'judge not'.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 07:06:10 -0500</pubDate>
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