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A Call to Heresy
Containing Biblical Quotations Regarding Women, Sex, Slavery,
Race, and the End of the World, as well as a Collection of
Contradictions, Atrocities and Absurdities, Biblical Facts and
Commentary. Offered Up in this Second Edition by Trevor Blake in
December 1994, Following a First Edition Compiled in August,
September, and October of 1991 and Based on No Small Amount of
Research.
Trevor Blake
127 House
Post Office Box 2321
Portland OR 97208-2321 USA
e-mail: hous...@teleport.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS
i. Title
ii. Table of Contents
iii. Bishop James Pike on Heresy
iv. Copyright Information
1. Quotations from the King James Bible
1a. On Women
1b. On Sex
1c. On Slavery and Race
1d. On The End of the World
2. Contradictions in the Bible
3. Atrocities and Absurdities in the Bible
4. Jesus Christ on the Bible
5. Facts About the Bible
6. Commentary on the Bible and Christianity
iii. BISHOP JAMES PIKE ON HERESY
[The word "heresy"] comes from a greek noun form (hairesis) of a
verb in the middle voice (haireisthai) meaning "to take for
oneself" -- to choose. This concept corresponds aptly to the
conviction that there can be no faith without personal
decision...
There are... two principle ways people arrive at convictions. If
a person's beliefs, however many or few, are to be really his, he
should choose maturely which of the two ways appears the more
sound and then apply its methodology to select or form such
beliefs. This is his heresy: his choosing for himself. The
results of such choosing may also be heresy in the other, more
commonplace, sense of the word... Therefore, if both the positive
and negative meanings of hairesis are taken into account, every
truely believing individual is heretical in the positive sense,
whether or not what he has chosen to believe is heretical in the
negative sense.
- Bishop James Pike, If This Be Heresy.
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1. QUOTATIONS FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE
1a. ON WOMEN
Unto the women he (God) said "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow
and thy conception; in sorrow thou shall bring forth children and
thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
-Genesis 3:16
If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she
shall be unclean seven days... But if she bear a maid child, then
she shall be unclean two weeks...
- Leviticus 12:2-8
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of
copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the
even. The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of
copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be
unclean until the even. And if a woman have an issue, and her
issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days:
and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. And
every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be
unclean. And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And
whoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even. And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be
upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the beds
whereon he lieth shall be unclean... This is the law of him that
hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is
defiled therewith; and of her that is sick of her flowers, and of
him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him
that lie with her that is unclean.
- Leviticus 15:17-33
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