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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMorning Joe just brought up the Red Letters in the Bible.
Well, I'll be damned.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)I saw that. You could almost see the steam coming out Steve Schmidt's ears, he was so angry.
mucifer
(23,634 posts)madaboutharry
(40,248 posts)I didn't know either. It is the version where the words actually spoken by Jesus are printed in red.
onlyadream
(2,168 posts)Which I identify with. They go by Jesuss words, not Pauls or the Old Testament. Too bad the color is red and not blue, because the words totally line up with liberal policies.
safeinOhio
(32,762 posts)Now there is a movement.
https://www.redletterchristians.org
Fun to point out Jesus didn't think it was very important to talk about gay marriage or abortion..
genxlib
(5,547 posts)Thomas Jefferson created a version of the bible to remove all of the supernatural and commentary. What remains is a fairly liberal philosophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
In a letter to Adams...
We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus, paring off the amphibologisms into which they have been led, by forgetting often, or not understanding, what had fallen from him, by giving their own misconceptions as his dicta, and expressing unintelligibly for others what they had not understood themselves. There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man. I have performed this operation for my own use, by cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter which is evidently his, and which is as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill.
Conservatives love to talk about the Founding Fathers but I love to throw this at them. Can you imagine a modern politician actually editing the bible. Man they would lose their minds.
sinkingfeeling
(51,499 posts)public comments.
DeminPennswoods
(15,307 posts)God/Jesus are printed in red.
MFM008
(19,839 posts)Words in red, while i have whole bibles , i only read the new testament except Revelations , which is just incomprehensible to me.
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)my minister said about reading it. One was that we need to remember that the letter was written for the young, persecuted church. Another idea was to think about how the lessons of faithfulness can be applied now in struggles between good and evil.
And people need to remember that the author, John, was not one of the apostles; he never met Jesus.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Croney
(4,684 posts)Ilsa
(61,721 posts)And he speaks in King James english!