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... told by Karen Armstrong inher book A History ofGod (1993). Thisbookisnot intendedasa history of beliefso much asa retrogressivequest for God.Ihave peeledaway the layersof scholarship thathad once disunited Godfrom himself and have stuck ...
... told will happen, since I was a wee thing, fresh from m' nappies. I was told it by my parents, by the teachers at my school and by the priests of my church. More or lesswhat eleventh-century Archbishop Anselmhad in mind when he wrote ...
... told that God created the light (Gen. 1:3), the And on he goes, taking each verse at the opening. conclusion is forced upon us that, prior to that period, he had spent an eternity in darkness. And it has been discovered that all beings ...
... told Adam named everything, he could as easily have found names for theseas for other things. (The Bibleof Bibles, 15:5–7) So God was blind before he created the world, was he?Butwhat was this blindGod doing? Freethinkers have an answer ...
... told him hisname was El Shaddai(Gen. 35:11). Later still, while Jacob was preparing for histrip to Egypt, God introduced himself as El (Gen. 46:3). ButJacob ignored all of these and prayed toGod using a different set of names altogether ...