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Hi All:

I am attending grad school at La Salle University in Philadelphia.  
Unfortunately, one of my courses is a religion course and believe me 
this is a stretch.  This prof told me last night that the Bible is not to be 
taken literally in that it is not a science book, but to be taken as 
a literature book.  I told him that I believe the Bible as the Word 
of God and I take it literally.  I said, when the Bible says the Red 
Sea was parted, I believe that.  He says that is not true.  He says 
that they have learned that the Red Sea was dry in sections and that 
the Israelites did not all pass through at once but that it was a 
gradual process.  However, he says that it is not important whether 
or not the Red Sea opened as it is that God is a liberator of his 
people.  He says that the whole Bible is an interpretation.  Where in 
the Bible does it say to go to church on Sunday, yet we do.  He says 
that is someone's interpretation.  I agree with things like that.  
But the rest of what he was saying is just hog wash.  I mean you 
should hear these people.  They believe that a "moral agnostic" could 
go to heaven because he was moral.  They talk about faith and works, 
but then they get hung up.  They talk of a God who loves us 
unconditionally so then how can he punish us.  But I think the most 
absurd thing I heard last night was from a student who said "Since 
God made everything good, then there must be something good in the 
Devil."  Now do these people need help or what? 

This class is a stretch for me, to say the least.  I do solicit your 
prayers. 

_________________________________
K. L. Cabell
La Salle University
Philadelphia, PA
kay@pobox.com
cabellk1@alpha.lasalle.edu
http://www.emanon.net/~kcabell/

"Given the odds, we weren't supposed to stop being slaves.  Given the
opposition, we weren't supposed to have an education.  Given the history, we
weren't supposed to have families.  Given the blues, we weren't supposed to
have spirit.  Given the power of the enemy, we weren't supposed to fight back. 
Not only have we achieved victories, we have--despite the powers against
us--become our own victories."

Camille Cosby