Nationally, Barack Obama had to explain why he takes his Bible stories from an America hater.
This can be seen most strongly in these later works in which Caravaggio identifies so clearly with the darker fears and desires of the classic bible stories.
Architects assigned spaces above the nave colonnades and in the apses for brilliantly colored mosaics of Bible stories and supernatural manifestations such as the epiphany of the Trinity.
He said readers would find all the familiar Bible stories.
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"The stories in the Bible are skeletal, loosely told, with a lot of gaps, " he said.
You may be completely right in your interpretation of the Christian Bible but America is not a theocracy and neither the Legislature nor the Courts can base their legislation or their rulings on stories from the Bible anymore than they can base them on the various books that other religions contend state the holy and inerrant truth.
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Here was corroboration of one of the best-known stories in the Hebrew Bible, the liberation by Cyrus of the Jews deported to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar and their return to Jerusalem to build the Second Temple.
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More importantly, the countless hours of transcription has led him to conclude that the Bible is more sublime than just a bunch of stories from thousands of years ago.
If it wasn't for the Bible, arguably Shakespeare wouldn't have written those stories.
This is one of the reasons we created "The Bible, " a 10-part miniseries premiering March 3 on the History Channel that dramatizes key stories from Scriptures.
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