Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Is That In The Bible? (1933)por Dr Charles F Potter
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
An amazing collection of facts and trivia culled from the Bible. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)200Religions Religion ReligionClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
Potter takes the text of the Bible beyond the clearly waning religious and literary aspects, and plunges into its vital human interest dimensions. That is, the "human interest"--and no other book even approaches the Bible in this category. Much of the Holy Scriptures are simply omitted from teaching, and Potter puts this material back into our lives.
"The Bible is the richest collection of human 'case histories' and observations on life that was ever bound between two covers. It is full of drama and melodrama, of blood and thunder, of intrigue and hate, of greed and hot lust. It throbs with life, bizarre and beautiful, sublime and ridiculous." Indeed, in the Hebrew, it reads as salty, and not coincidentally, Rabelaisian. [viii]
Potter leaves theology out of this work, and does not attempt to "prove" anything. A lifelong Sunday school teacher, fluent in Greek and Hebrew, Potter gives us the rich stories ripped free of theological chains. He poses lists of Questions to whet both the imagination and curiosity, and then cites Scripture for the answers. Filled with treasure.
Thirty topics are listed in the Contents, and are all subjects of interest to practical and curious people. Everything from bugs to food, sex to death, marriage music and miracles, as well as angels and demons. One section is listed as "Of interest to students of Comparative Religion". Another thirty questions are of "Scientific Interest" -- for example, where Isaiah condemned astrology, Daniel condemned magi and predictors and liars, and noting Deuteronomy 18:9 and II Kings 21:6. He then lists 32 "Naive Ideas About God", asks 86 questions of General Interest, and 35 "Folk Questions with a Catch to Them", all with answers provided with citations to Scripture. ( )