--- "Fr. Ivo da C. Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Selma Elizabeth Carvalho, > I respect your opinion. But it is wrong to say > that Bible TEACHES that > Eve was created out of Adam's rib. This is a > symbolic description to show > that the woman has equal rights as the male.
---------------------- Dear Fr. Ivo, We are in complete agreement here. The Bible is at best a quasi-historical and literary document and if one wishes to imbibe lessons from it, then one is at liberty to do so. I also imbibe equally powerful lessons reading the Greek myths, but at no point do I consider any of them to be divinely inspired. So to get back to the point I was making, it is impossible for two differing positions to be tenable concurrently. One either believes that the Bible is a book written by earthly writers who are subject to their own human perceptions and limitations of knowledge that exist at the time, or one believes that the Bible was Divinely inspired ergo everything in it has to be infallible, right down to keeping slaves, sacrificing your daughters or sons, and so on and so forth. In sum my point is, Christianity is A religion. It is not superior to any other religion, infact it hardly stands the test of wisdom when compared with what say Socrates or Pythagoras had to offer circa the same period of time. When we get over the supremacy of any religion, I think we can embrace spirituality with much more passion. On this note I would like to add that by and large, most Christians have already gotten over the need to feel superior and are infact quite secular and tolerant in their outlook. selma ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping