Pope Benedict XVI takes on Anti - Christ in his million - seller Jesus of Nazareth...

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(For all that countless of those thousands of us making up all of the above, may -- or may not -- even care...heh, heh!

Why?

Because we are all affected -- or directly impacted, even if only in a material way -- by so - called religious and / or philosophical controversies of this kind, whether we even believe personally in any thing or not.

Don't believe it?

Then, just check out those 3 (for some majors) or 1 (for other majors) classes that were still required and which were still being taught by the likes of UTEP's legendary Dr. (Major General) Larry Johnson used to teach, way back in the Spring of the UTEP Spring Semester of Zero Four!!

And which, who knows?

May still be required by UTEP undergraduates this very UTEP Spring Semester of Zero Eight!!)

Pages 65 - 67.

"And so the Bible no longer speaks of God, the living God; no, now we alone speak and decide what God can do and what we will and should do.

"And the Antichrist, with an air of scholarly excellence, tells us that any exegesis that reads the Bible from the perspective of faith in the living God, in order to listen to what God has to say, is fundamentalism; he wants to convince us that only his kind of exegesis, the supposedly purely scientific kind, in which God says nothing and has nothihg to say, is able to keep abreast of the times.

"The theological debate between Jesus and the devil is a dispute over the correct interpretation of Scripture, and it is relevant to every period of history.

"Yet in practice, the struggle over the image of God, which underlies the debate about valid biblical interpretation, is decided by the picture we form of Christ:

"Is He, who remained without worldly power, really the Son of the living God?"

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