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A publicly funded exhibition is encouraging people to deface the Bible in the name of art — and visitors have responded with abuse and obscenity.
The show includes a video of a woman ripping pages from the Bible and stuffing them into her bra, knickers and mouth.
The open Bible is a central part of ‘Made [...]

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By Richard Allen Greene
CNN
LONDON, England (CNN) — The world’s oldest known Christian Bible goes online Monday — but the 1,600-year-old text doesn’t match the one you’ll find in churches today.

Discovered in a monastery in the Sinai desert in Egypt more than 160 years ago, the handwritten Codex Sinaiticus includes two books that are not [...]

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By John Blake
CNN
CNN — Just so you know, Bart Ehrman says he’s not the anti-Christ.

He says he’s not trying to destroy your faith. He’s not trying to bash the Bible. And, though his mother no longer talks to him about religion, Ehrman says some of his best friends are Christian.
Ehrman, a best-selling author and [...]

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by Michael Kranitz
from Examiner.com
People often equate the Old and New Testaments with morality and goodness. That is why one of my esteemed Examiner colleagues wrote about being “biblically correct” in a recent article about a beauty contestant who spoke her mind about gay marriage. I read the article waiting for him to discuss [...]

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BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Muslim calligrapher Yasser Abu Saymeh has dedicated the past two months to Christian art, writing the Gospel of Luke in ornate Arabic script to be presented to Pope Benedict XVI when the Roman Catholic leader visits the Holy Land next month.
Abu Saymeh never read a New Testament text before he [...]

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from BibbiaBlog.com
Opening words are important. Authors and editors both know that the first sentence of a book needs to be arresting and engaging. It should capture the imagination of the reader, inviting the reader into the larger story or, at the very least, the larger story of the first chapter. Consider the first line of [...]

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By Kevin Roose
from esquire.com
I thought we’d try something new before class today,” says Nathan, the Evangelism 101 teaching assistant. “A little cheer.”

My roommate Eric turns to me. “God is good. Bet you ten bucks.”
Before I can ask what he means, Nathan sets down his microphone and shouts through cupped hands, “God is good!”

“All the [...]

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by Stephanie Board
from www.spectatornews.com
It seems to me that the mention of Jesus is a common occurrence in our society today. I think it is safe to say I hear someone speak this name at least once a day, although the circumstances vary greatly.
Jesus comes up in discussions about politics, science and history, among a myriad [...]

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From the cross and crescent blog:
Christians are well known to think Jesus is the Son of God. But how can this be? Isn’t it blasphemy to say that God bore a son?
The answer is yes, and if Christians believed that God bore a Son, or had a son in the same way we humans do, [...]

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By Justin Hartley, MiX staff
With Christmas around the corner, I figured it was time to read a more festive book. As I was looking around Barnes and Noble, I found the perfect book for the upcoming holiday.
I’ve always wondered about what would happen if one were to take the Bible and interpret it as [...]

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