their purposes is to share the power of the holy bible. ge thomas talked to steve green. >> you made this purchase in november, 2009, what did you buy and how much did you spend? >> first purchase was in november of 2009, the richard roll. he was a gentleman that translated the book of psalms into english 40 years before wycliffe did. we had several opportunities that were presented to dr. scott carol who is the director of our collection. he is an expert, he knows what he is looking at and what the rough value is. we have been buying for a little over two years now and have acquired 44,000 items. >> why are you doing this? >> we want to tell the story of the bible. we want to put it in a permanent museum. we are looking in washington, d.c. one is the history of this book, how we can believe and trust what this book has to say it is a reliable and historical document. secondly, we want to tell the story how this book has had an impact and thirdly, what is the story of the book? >> is there a sense in the american culture, in fact, pretty mu

in greek. >> the jewish bible in greek. what was the language that the -- that was translated, the original language? jesus spoke in aramaic, correct? >> probably. >> and that was first translated into hebrew? >> the jewish bible is, for the most part, in hebrew. there are a few parts in aramaic. >> then it was translated into greek for the common man. >> for the greek-speaking common jew in minus 200. >> ok. now, it's your contention, is it not, that when the translation occurred between hebrew and greek there was a mistake made. what was the mistake? >> you know, that's augustine's contention too, i'm in good company. >> you mean the saint? >> yes. yes. >> of hippo? >> yes, one of my favorites. this is something that greek-speaking christians were aware of as early as 150. >> what is the word in question? >> the word -- it's like the word for the parthenon because athena was a virgin goddess, the word is parthenos and that's the word that appears in greek of isaiah 7:14 but it's not the order in the original hebrew. >> wha

that is what the bible says. in the book of deuteronomy, the king was told to read the bible. he was told to read the bible every day. and even to write the whole bible himself, so that he would know who to kill and who to leave alone. everyone of you is pro- homosexual. you are saying that is a good thing, it is a good thing to be homosexual. in the old testament, you would be executed for being a homosexual or a river and so on. you are promoting this. but god says you are a minister of god. when solomon dedicated the temple, he prayed. president chiu: thank you very much. let's hear from our next speaker. can we hear from our next speaker? are there any more speakers to export if folks could please step up. >> excuse me. i would like to speak on an item that i believe is up for proposal about benefit corporations in the city and county of san francisco. the item pertains to the third party -- president chiu: we have already considered this item. there was public comment at a number of commission hearings as well as three meetings here. under our board rules, this is not the

and let's remember the doctrines in the christian bible on economics are quite progressive anybody who reads the sermon on the mouth speech knows that it's kind of ridiculous to claim that the christian bible inspired any economically conservative position well so that you know that's interesting too because as i mentioned last week we saw this is the first time that we've seen it happen when there's a republican budget that's proposed that ends up slashing a lot of social programs programs like medicaid or welfare and food stamps and what not and so last week we saw that play out between paul ryan and the catholic bishops but we've also heard certain ways around this from paul ryan even some religious guess that they host on fox news so let me play you a clip and i want to get your response. when we say something like the importance of taking care of the poor the importance of taking care of the least of these that there's also this other other element of personal responsibility and making sure higher level of government does not our society does not do well in a lower level of govern

to the bible and their ideology for social issues like abortion and gay marriage something that doesn't square up in the pairing of those views with fiscal conservatism just last week we saw that play out the debate between paul ryan and the catholic bishops over his budget a budget that pushes austerity not on the defense department of course but on to social programs but wants to really be a good christian are views like ryan's when it comes to social spending hypocritical what we make of how our friends across the pond approach this earlier i caught up with david sirota talk radio host and author of that's our future how the one nine hundred eighty s. explain the world we live in now how david wrote about this topic last week specifically referring to a new report that was published in the u.k. that looked at religion and political views and participation so i first asked them to tell us more about that report. but what they found in britain is that the more religious you are the more likely you are to be caresse

read the bible, you must wait for the wedding day, after the priest says you may now sniff the bride. that's why we wear cologne, to keep us from smelling each other and falling into a wild, uncontrollable rut. once again, my apologies to doris concerns goodwin, using sense of smell to find your soulmate say slippery slope, folks. pretty soon our young singles will have tawdry one-night stands with bounce dryer sheets and the snuggle bear. you slut! (applause) nice. next up, ever since republicans started talking about defunding planned parenthood democrats have accused the right of having a war on women. well, that's ridiculous. why would we go to war on women. they don't have any oil. the fact is, republicans care deeply about women. just women who haven't been born yet. and now in arizona, they're even looking out for females who haven't been conceived yet. >> arizona lawmakers have just passed three antiabortion bills, including one that declares that pregnancies begin two weeks before conception. it basically says that the gestation begins when you ovulate and not when you actual

. >>> blasting the bible. dan savage from "it gets better" campaign goes on the attack saying, quote, he should learn to ignore the b.s. in the bible and when it says about gay people. this morning, he is not backing down. >>> newsroom begins right now! . >>> a daring escape and diplomatic quandary. house arrest slipped away and apparently hiding inside the u.s. embassy in beijing and sets the stage for a tug of war between the two countries. you may remember the plight of chen in december. we were the only crew to accompany actor christian bale as he tried to meet with the activist instead bale was roughed up by chins chinese security guards. >> carol, this is an extraordinary story of escape. a blind man who under the cover of darkness managed to escape his captors and climb over a wall and cross a creek and then get to meet a waiting car at a secret rendezvous point and they spirited him to beijing and passing through multiple checkpoints and now, of course, the hunt is on for him. >> reporter: somewhere beh

. >> we can learn to ignore the bull [ expletive ] in the bible about gay people. it's funny someone who is on the receiving end of beatings that are justified by the bible, how [ expletive ] people react when you push that. >> savage later aid "i apologize if i hurt anyone's feelings but i have a right to defend myself." an eyewitness to the assassination of robert f. kennedy insists she heard two guns firing on that day in 1968 and quite sure there was a second shooter. nina rhoades-hughes said there was another shooter, she insists she heard more than a dozen shots but claims police altered her account. >> what has to come out is that there was another shooter to my right, and robert kennedy was also to my right with sir han sir han was straight to my left, standing on some steel raised platform, and there were two shooters. >> the 68-year-old sir j han is serving a life sentence in los angeles. he's asking to be released, retried or granted a new hearing based on rhodes-hughes comment there was another shooter. >>> surface-to-air missiles could be on top of a co

in the sense of the bible in particular, i mentioned again that i teach it, i enjoy it, but i'm also frightened at what i learn because i recognize the incredible power in a sacred text such as the bible and how- to use our terminology- it defines identity, it defines relationship, and doctrine, bringing ethics into a social dimension. and yet it worries me that people aren't aware of how important cultural context really is in the case. jamie, let me get you in here. >> yes, in 1950, i was a student at depaul university, which was a catholic university. i wasn't catholic, but you had to take certain courses, and i got the shock of my life, being raised in a fairly fundamentalist baptist church, when the priest conducting the class, the religious class, said- and i can quote- "the bible is a book of history and nonhistory, of fact and of fiction." i almost fell out of my chair. i'd never heard that before. >> you know, believe it or not, that we are down once again to less than a minute. i mean, it just, it goes so fast. let me tie this up, you know, if i can. well, why tie it up? we'

they quote the parts of the bible that they say are pro slavery. they say the constitution is pro slavery. you know, that's also a kind of tricky argument to make. you can say the fugitive slave clause is pro slavery, the three fifth clause is ambiguous but somewhat pro slavery. then there's the clause that ended the international slave trade, so that would seem to have an anti-slavery tendency. but they say the founders were pro slavery. they also start to say in the 1830s, this was the first time this argument is really made in any sustained way, they say that slavery is good for black people. that they are benefiting from the institution of slavery. they say that they are learning about the work ethic. well, yes, if you are forced to labor in the fields all day, six days a week, you know, you're doing tremendous amounts of back breaking work all of your life yes, you will learn about the work ethic. they say it's good for slaves to come to america and be exposed to christianity. they say that since black people are inferior to whites it's just go

the bible offers only a few clues. >> the gospels weren't really written to record a history. they were written to provide a testimony of faith. ♪ >> reporter: according to the new testament, jesus was crucified at a spot outside jerusalem called golgotha, which in aramaic means "place of the skull." the latin word for skull is calvaria, and in english many christians refer to the site of the crucifixion as calvary. the gospel of john says there was a garden at golgotha, and a tomb which had never been used. since the tomb was nearby, john says, that's where jesus's body was placed. the gospel writers say the tomb was owned by a prominent rich man, joseph of arimathea. they describe it as cut out of rock, with a large stone that could be rolled in front of the entrance. father mark morozowich is acting dean of the school of theology and religious studies at the catholic university of america. >> at the time of jesus, when he was crucified, he was not really a significant feature in israel. i mean, certainly there was jealousy, certainly he had his followers. but there was no c

the bible is so precious to so many people. ult was it for you to decide to take these words out and are you worried that people won't read the book because you did? >> i don't think so. i guess what we'll see what critics say and what our readers say. we know a lot of people and have given it to a lot of people that like the king james bible and other modern translations that use those words. we actually did this, carol, for people who don't read the bible at all or very seldom read it. we did it for them. we asked what kinds of questions are they coming to the text with? what do they need to know in order to read the bible for all it's worth? so we decided to make that decision to translate everything to give them the meaning of the text and to give them a sense of where the story, this great story of love and redemption is going. >> professor, thanks so much for joining us this morning. it's a fascinating topic. we appreciate it. >> thanks. good to be with you. >>> we're going to take you live to chantilly, virginia, now. we

clay was a religious man and knew the bible well. he said most of the time his justification and protection was the constitution. he said the constitution gave him the right to say what he thought about slavery. when he would walk into a room to give a lecture to an audience, he would often hold up a copy of the constitution. he would say this is my protection. then pull a gun out of his bag and hold it up and say this is my protection. he would put the gun down right there on the table so everybody in the room knew that mr. clay was armed. he carried a gun with him everywhere he went because he got death threats on a regular basis because of his criticisms of slavery. he said later that he was never actually assaulted during a l k lecture. he got many death threats. one day when he was walking down a country road near his house in kentucky in the 1850s, a stranger ran up to him and stabbed him. clay was seriously injured, but he recovered and he continued on his anti-slavery mission. in 1851, he ran for governor of kentucky on the em

to crunch typically didn't think a lot about jesus either. >> how much did jefferson take out of the bible? >> took out about 9/10 of the saying of jesus, tenth survived. >> took out the miracles? >> miracles, anything that sounded to him like calvinist theology, to jesus like god or healing and he took out the rest your ration, ends the story with the crucifix. >> did the early founders view the united states as a christian organization? >> nasa a good question. some of them did and many did not but i think it's fair to say that most of them had a more deistic view, a view that yes, god, yes, afterlife and rewards and punishments but not specifically christian and certainly not specifically new testament biblical. >> the founding fathers saw united states, america, as a secular nation? >> well -- >> you make this statement in the book, you said, "there was a treaty," that you cite in 1797, a key time, between the united states and tripoli. in that treaty the u.s. government says the government of the united states of america is not in any sense founded on the christian religion. there are

a long way of saying the bike first came to read was the bible. it is the book that to this day i still have most of the things are from the baseball, and it was -- the experience of learning to love to read the bible that turned me on to reading. i think that's true of a lot of black folks, given or christian upbringing, and the wonderful stories in the bible. it wasn't just that i would read the bible for the sake of reading it. i was reading it long before i came to the meeting. i was reading it long before it became real for me but i loved the story-telling in the bible, and i say for all the books ever written, it's hard to find a text where the stories are more empowering, more uplifting, more inspiring. are you serious? david and goliath? andrew in the lion's den? i love the stories, and all of these affliction, old testament, new testament, the stories were to powerful to me as a child growing up in the pentecostal church, and that opened up the door to other books that changed my life. invisible man. a black kid growing up in a poor black

very few people are experiencing anything in isolation in the bible. >> that's very true. >> think of all the old testament things, pillar of fire, moses parting the waters, how they passed into the promised land. they were all looking. they were all together, right? >> well, they were looking at the stuff out there. >> we now have each other to be that presence. >> yes, yes. >> we are are the pillars of fire. we are the -- >> i'm not a pillar! >> one day i might be the pillar of fire for you, and then summary next day, i might be looking at you because i am in a pit of doubt. iwe are are the image of god, so if you want to see god, look at each other. >> whoa! whoa! >> ultimately, look at jesus, all right. here is jesus, you know, god, in the flesh god is with us. >> incarnation. >> that is such a cool word. >> how does incarnational relate to this request for proof? >> when we talk about jesus as the incarnation, we're talking about jesus coming into our form, you know, in carnational in body, and so that we can understand so that we can see, and in that way, as we were talking, we

they know the bible very well. that is the foundation of their arguments. they're such good speakers that believe it or not some of their critics said they're not really women. they're men disguised as women because a woman could not be that eloquent or articulate, and sara grimke, the older of the two, starts to think about gender in addition to abolition and slavery and race and starts to think about and speak about gender and published an essay in 1838 summarizing they are thoughts called "letters on the equality of the sexes", and she, too, uses very blunt, straight forward language. no one can accuse william lloyd garrison and frederick douglass or the grimke sisters about what they believed. she says that men and women are equal in the eyes of god and says, quote, all history attest that is men have subjected women to their will. man has done all he could to debase and en slave her mind and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought and says this being he deeply injured is his inferior. that's a sample quote from a very fiery essay. the grim

he knows the bible very well and so was david walker. he is an active member of the methodist church and he is also sympathetic to working class black people in boston and he is also willing to help fugitive slaves and fugitive slaves showed up at his house and walker would help them. the he wrote a book, appeal to the colored citizens of the world. appeal to the colored citizens of the world. this is when the world colored was still used commonly by black people. it didn't have the negative connotation it has today. in this book walker calls on black people to assist and lead the black community. he believed in the american work ethic. he believes in individual ambition. he believes in protestant values, and he says that black people have to work hard to better themselves and to better the black community. he also denounces slavery. he said that it was a crime. he said that it went way back in history. he knew quite a lot about history, all the way back to ancient egypt. he criticized the founders for their hypocrisy on slavery and singl

. >> the bread is unleavened bread, because the bible records children of israel didn't have time fore they left egypt in haste. >> reporter: in the passover the wine refers to... the blood refers to the blood they smeared on the doorposts of the houses, because god passed over the houses. >> and, the part of the meal, the bread one would be eating would be thin wafers, that of course is how the principle or the practice of wafer and wine has come into communion in christian usage. as the church separated itself from the synagogue, so aspects of jewish observance were lost and all that remained was the communion of eating the bread and drinking the wine in remembrance of jesus' life. >> reporter: the word "christian" was not used until more than 30 years after jesus died and simply meanings those who believe jesus was christ, the jewish messiah. >> they forgot their origins and roots are in you. >> differently and forgot jesus was a jew and the followers were jews and saw themselves as loyal jesus and only in recent times has the church begun to rediscover its you jewish roots and its

i do believe the bible speaks very clearly about issues that i don't think are of secondary importancethe issue of life, the issue of the sanctity of marriage, religious freedom, and so i think in a perfect world we would elect a competent, conservative christian who is consistent and has character but as my friend janet par sell says jesus isn't on the ballot and sometimes we have to compromise and choose the lesser of two evils and that's what i think we're doing here. >> the problem, sir, is that some people would suggest that the reason you would rather vote for a man whom you regard as the member of a cult as opposed to a self confessed christian is because in this case the christian happens to be black. that's really your problem. >> well, that is absolutely ludicrous. in fact, some black pastors in dallas tried to make that assertion, and another black pastor stood up and said that is absolutely untrue. it has nothing to do with the president's race. it has to do with the fact that this president is the most pro-abortion president in history by his record and by his words and he

laid the foundation for future bibles as english and interpretations involved. >> the maryland biblety is over 200 years old. the king james version may have entered the collection unrecognized. >> what a treasure. nice weather bernadette, not complaining. >> incredible. another beautiful afternoon out there. we have gotten warmer each day. right now we're sitting in the 70s even with a cold front. we will have your forecast including the holiday weekend and opening day when we return. [ male announcer ] , if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] you may be an allergy muddler. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. love the air. [ sneezes ] >>> welcome back, everybody. just another fan tastic afternoon. even warmer than the last couple of afternoons. that's even with the cold front going through. go figure. this is the cold front. just has some clouds in it and a few shower ace cross the south. it is now off to our south. right knew tha

>> certainly the bible is right to say we're supposed to care about the poor. and god said that those who care about the poor, god will care about them and god will bless them. there's a fundamental question about the meaning of fairness, everyone makes the same amount of money? or everyone gets the same opportunity to make the same amount of money? i don't believe in wealth redistribution. i believe in wealth distribution. the only way is to create jobs, create wealth, not to subsidize people. when you subsidize people, you create dependency, you rob them. keep the peace. second is to provide opportunity. when we start getting into all of kinds of other things, i think, we invite greater control and i'm fundamentally about freedom. you know, the first freedom in america is actually the freedom of religion. it's not the second, third, fourth or fifth. >> you have written about this on twitter a great deal when it comes to the obama administration, health care rule as it pertains to contraception. they dialed it back. how were you with the "accommodation"? >> th

the part of the bible reading marathon put on each year by the international bible reading associationtoday. >>> we know our civic duty but many people try to find ways to get out of jury duty. and in this week's scam alert, how scamers are using your missed appointments to get your personal information. details on that ahead. >>> plus, if you have a newborn, why health officials say you should hold off on using a pacifier for the couple weeks and wean textings and -- text -- between texting and tweeting the data can go fast but what are the things you are not using and how it eats away at your data. >> and maryland's most powerful radar is quiet right now. but it will be more active. i will tell you when and how it will affect your neck of the woods. details coming up. [ virginia ] i do have a healthy diet, but there are foods that i had no idea had so much acid in them. my dentist said that the acid in fruit, or fruit juice or fruit teas softens the enamel so that then it can potentially erode. once that enamel is gone, it's gone. my dentist recommended that i use pronamel to help ha

the weekly bible study turned tense as congregation members were told the church is on lockdown para >> we are instructed to keep everything close tonight. >> why is the church lockdown? if you are following christ, then what are they afraid of? >> it is the latest development in the controversy that surrounded the mega church as their pastor was officially terminated today by the board that took over was the founder and his mother passed away in 2010. since then the board has worked tirelessly to oust pastor joel. >> we said, you will not use our money to sue our past or. for real? >> hosting an impromptu prayer session -- >> will be back on promises. >> he encourage supporters to continue to prefer the church he is no longer allowed in. >> we reached out to the attorneys representing the board members. they had no comment other than to say that the termination was effective immediately and was necessary to protect the city of praise. peebles plans to be back here for sunday morning worship. >> thank you. new at 11:00 police in prince george's county are investigating the death of a

published in 1611, the first printing of the king james bible. experts now because of a typo in the book of ruth. >> that makes it the real thing. >> william shakespeare was writing plays when king james commissioned the bible in part because bibles of the date used the word tyrant for king. >> got rid of the word tyrant and brought in a team. they collectively wrote this document. >> how and when it got to maryland is a mystery. a scholar from stevenson authenticated it and now extremely rare, it isn't pristine. there are tears and repairs reducing its dollar value. >> what makes it valuable to me is i can see the repairs. all that tells me about how the document was used in the importance of the king james bible as a living document. >> biblical passages and literature can be traced directly back to the king james version. so can some everyday stays. >> eat, drink, and be merry. >> those words have been in the english language only since the king james bible. >> those writers working for the king laid the foundation for future bibles in english