to fear the lord is to hate evil

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

it's good to bear in mind that "fear" is a pretty thin word for what is a pretty thick concept in hebraic literature. Don't assume that what we see on quick read, 3,000 years later, is what was meant by the writer.

What? You mean every word in the Bible isn't supposed to be taken literally as the divinely inspired word of God?

Oh, great. And here I went and became Pagan for nothing. I thought I had to buy all of that stuff verbatim, and I just couldn't do that.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Elspode

What? You mean every word in the Bible isn't supposed to be taken literally as the divinely inspired word of God?

Oh, great. And here I went and became Pagan for nothing. I thought I had to buy all of that stuff verbatim, and I just couldn't do that.

Well now, don't you feel silly?

I know and like several pagans, but I just don't see the point of going pagan. Ethical monotheism (viz., Dennis Prager) seems to me a step up.