>> i think the bible is true. not everything that is explained in the bible does the bible commend. for instance, there's rape in the bible. the bible is clearly against rape. in fact, if you open the bible, you'll find more rape, murder, incest, all kinds of problems, why? the bible always tells the truth. any other book, if it was writing about these great people in the past, it tended to gloss over their sins. >> but the bible says if you commit adultery you're going to be stoned to death. >> as we said before, that's a civil law for the nation of israel. >> but it's still an element of the bible that is flawed. >> well, evidently for that generation, that's their commandment. >> exactly my point. exactly like the constitution. >> but it's not one of the moral laws. >> but it's still in the bible and it's flawed. >> i do not believe the bible is flawed. >> well intentioned and inherently flawed. my point to you about gay rights, for example, it's time to an amendment to the bible. >> no. >> you should compile a new bible. >> not a chance. what i believe is flawed is human opinion

not everything in the bible that is explained in the bible does the bible commend. instance, there's rape in the bible. the bible is clearly against rape. if you open the bible, you'll find more rape, murder, incest, all kinds of problems. why? because the bible always tells the truth. why does it say holy on the bible? any other book, if it was writing about these great people in the past, they tend to gloss over their sins. >> wouldn't the bible say if you commit adultery, you'll be stoned to death? >> we say this is a civil law for the nation of israel. >> but it's still an element of the bible that is flawed. >> evidently, for that generation, that's their commandment. >> exactly my point. >> but it's not one of the moral laws. >> but it's something in the bible and it's flawed. >> i do not believe the bible is flawed. >> it's well intentioned but they are basically inherently flawed. hence the need to amend it. my point to you about gay rights, it's time for an amendmet t ble3 wt beevislad opinion. what was popular, what was hot is now not. and i willingly admi

bible beneath the bible. that is a hidden code, hidden. the -- in equidistant letter sequences within the text of the bible presumably by god or some other intelligence. >> has it been discredited? >> it has been in my opinion discredited by mathematicians and computer scientists who have explored the arguments and found them lacking. >> do you think traditional christianity will survive the exotic forms we see today? >> i think the bible will always be the most important book in western culture and people will always interpret it. >> jeffrey sheler -- born in grand rapids, 50 years of age, married, two children. you're a presbyterian, your politics are independent. where did you go to college? >> i went to michigan state university for journalism. georgetown university for theological studies. >> did you get a degree from georgetown. >> master's degree in liberal studies. >> in liberal studies. that includes, what, theology? >> theology, philosophy, yeah. >> do they teach you shakespeare? >> i managed to sta

how should the bible be studied by modern christians who want a deeper understanding of. that i mean is that what you're describing is jesus as the original liberal. that world view. well you know i would recommend i teach my theology classes i say theology begins with a painter so in the bible studies that i'm writing for people to use occupy the bible and a lot of churches have signed up to use it for lent in bible study but i'm very happy about so i actually start with the pain i start with the economic pain that people are in and i recommend that to people to study it actually to get in touch with what's happened to you how is it happened that the median income in this country has stayed practically stagnant for a decade and you know we've been going downhill in terms of real income for three decades the whole trickle up theory of reaganomics is a transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top and so people are in pain and i think if you start where the pain is then people can begin to hear wow this message of jesus is for me and i think bible study is grasping that ex

. >> and the bible. >> i see, i see. >> right. he derived these mostly from hinduism but christianity had influence on him too. >> i see. he spent how many years then in south africa? >> he went there to work there for only one year on a kind of contract from his company to represent people of indian descent being discriminated against. he ended up staying there for 20 years. >> long vacation. >> much longer than he wanted. in between he went back to india and thought he had finished work there but he was called back because the voting rights were suppressed for people of indian descent. people in south africa wanted gandy to come back because he had developed this tremendous sense of leadership. >> he was already a national figurine international figure in south africa. >> he became an international figure because he was fighting discrimination and standing up for justice and organizing people and burning the registration cards because people of indian descent are required to carry all these identity cards. >> this was already hi

what does the bible say?hat articulate this grief and sorrow over tran ditch the psalms probably the most articulate expressions of those, like my god, my god why have you forsaken me, why are you so far from my groaning, the words of mying an lish with fish? the bible shows through psalms that people are ho are religious fill the full emotional weight associated with tragedy and they pray in that tragedy because they need help. and the prayers also show that they frequently -- that those prayers frequently help, that the psalms end frequently in hope and confidence acres firming that god hasn't despised those who suffer but listened to them and attended to them and helped them. >> there is that question that so many people ask at a time like this. and that is how could this happen? how could got god less this happen? >> no easy anticipate to that question. all religions try to deal with the problem of suffering and evil one way or the other. but i think the bible holds precious several convictions. one is go

the 1599 geneva bible.s the first complete english translation, complete with chapters, numbered verses and 300,000 utterly unique study notes. it actually came out before the king james version and because the government didn't authorize it, it was outlawed. but it was a bible by the people, for the people, the book that built america. and now for the first time in 400 years it's available again in a bea leather edition. i have one, i want you to have yours too. please visit genevabible.com and get your copy of this rare and historic version of god's word today. thank you and may god bless you. >> welcome back. it is 21 minutes after the top of the hour. syrian vice president said the government and the rebels are losing the war. he said neither side can win militarily. after 21 months of fighting instead he suggests ending the violence and creating a unified government. the founder of domino's pizza joining the fight against obama care. he is suing the local government foreman dates. monahan a devout cath

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the 1599 geneva bible.was the first complete english translation, complete with chapters, numbered verses and 300,000 utterly unique study notes. it actually came out before the king james version and because the government didn't authorize it, it was outlawed. but it was a bible by the people, for the people, the book that built america. and now for the first time in 400 years it's available again in a beautiful leather edition. i have one, i want you to have yours too. please visit genevabible.com and get your copy of this rare and historic version of god's word today. thank you and may god bless you. >> good morning to you. it is now quarter past the hour. george h.w. bush is still in the hospital but his condition is improving. he was admitted for bronchitis the day after thanksgiving. should be more bad news for bernie madoff. andrew madoff is reportedly awaiting tests to confirm fears that his canningser has returned. he was first diagnosed with lymphoma in 2003. this news comes right before tomorrow'

the 1599 geneva bible.t was the first complete english translation, complete with chapters, numbered verses and 300,000 utterly unique study notes. it actually came out before the king james version and because the government didn't authorize it, it was outlawed. but it was a bible by the people, for the people, the book that built america. and now for the first time in 400 years it's available again in a beautiful leather edition. i have one, i want you to have yours too. please visit genevabible.com and get your copy of this rare and historic version of god's word today. thank you and may god bless you. >> the pentagon is preparing for massive budget cuts in case the country does go over the fiscal cliff. the scaling back today became the triangle. >> welcome backs to fox and friends first. i am patti ann browne. >> i am ainsley earhardt. >> now it's time for the top 5@5:00. they are accused of aiding terrorists and threatening to use weapons of mass destruction in the united states. they will come face t

the 1599 geneva bible.e first complete english translation, complete with chapters, numbered verses and 300,000 utterly unique study notes. it actually came out before the king james version and because the government didn't authorize it, it was outlawed. but it was a bible by the people, for the people, the book that built america. and now for the first time in 400 years it's available again in a beautiful leather edition. i have one, i want you to have yours too. please visit genevabible.com and get your copy of this rare and historic version of god's word today. thank you and may god bless you. >> here in nazareth is the traditional sight of the virgin mary's home and the virgin's cave. the gospel according to luke tells us it was here that the miracle of jesus' birth began. the ark angel gabriel told mary she was to be the virgin mother of the son of god. there is nothing else written in the gospels about the lives jesus and his family led in nazareth. with so little information about jesus boy hoods ea

own text of the bible as you began your book 'ith? >> well, presumably it's not because he didn't have anything else to do, i mean, he was a pretty busy guy in the white house but he ordered a couple books from england, a couple bibles and he sat there in the white house and he cut and paed a took out the miracles and took out the resurrection. heelieved jesus was a good guy, he believed he was one of the most important philosophers ever but he didn't like christianity and he was able to separate out christianity from jesus, say no to christianity and say yes to yeast. >> how many of the colonists, what percentage were religiously affiliated or had had religious beliefs in some specific denomination? >> i'm not sure the percentageí but much smaller percentage of churchgoers than we have now. something more on the order of, i don'tnow, one out of five rather than the vast majority. and those who were christians and who did go to crunch typically didn't think a lot about jesus either. >> how much did jefferson take out of the bible? >>

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of the new testament so while the christian bible and what does this book say it says the world will end that god will decree the world's end the christ will come again and that before he comes again there will be a lot of battles. these are called eschatological battles between good and evil so there will be earthquakes cataclysms wars the church will be persecuted and many believers as soon as there are troubled times and there always have been in the history of humanity they will take this as proof to say that the end of the world is. two thousand years there have been hundreds of announcements of this kind all untrue obviously all untrue otherwise we wouldn't be here talking about it. some are still trying to predict this famous date and in fact two thousand and twelve is only the latest theory in vogue. in paris is largest bookshop at the end of the world department contains dozens of works that link this date to a very old prophecy. a million prophecy. these pre-columbian people believe that the world was regenerated every five thousand years. and the next cycle of this calenda

where the apocalypse is the last book of the new testament so while the christian bible i want is this book say it says the world will and that god will to create the world and the christ will come again and that before. these are called eschatological battles bitter. to be persecuted and many believers as soon as there are trouble. to say that the end of the world is near and in the last two thousand years there have been they're talking about it some are still only the latest theory in vogue. in paris is. a mayan prophecy of thousand years. before two thousand and twelve. pounds the end times for the real my and we are going from and they try to uphold this legend with all the strength of a scientific truth. in a suburb of and to a pathway to get real reform a chemist has become an apocalypse star. over the last ten years he's written several books announcing the two thousand and twelve catastrophe and he tracks the end of the world science on the internet i am following every day several sites or from the bad fourth university from nasa follow the possibility that the gang gets its

>> i think the bible is helpful in two ways in this regard.d forget," we say it a lot is not found in the bible. it's very hard to forget things that are really bad. it's interesting that the bible even suggests that some things are so bad they can't be forgotten and maybe shouldn't be forgotten. they shouldn't be forgotten because it keeps us from letting it happen again. also, we shouldn't forget them because it keeps us thankful we don't experience the terrible things anymore, so that's important. another thing is it takes time and that forgiveness may not be marked by how we feel towards sun that wronged you us. it may be how we act towards them this great example is these two brothers, family again, and they're add odds for years and years. they finally reconcile, but it seems like they don't trust each other much at all even after that th that. the primary way they show it is not trying to hurt each other. >> who do you think forgiveness benefits more? for the person forgiving or receiving? >> it's got to be both. you got to feel great t

he said that the whole bible is summed up in honor.ve the honor council and honor code and the honor ring. it's this whole -- you can't even question -- isn't it really about honor? what about, i don't know, love? >> so here we are in texas in the rain in camouflage panchos carrying a cross down the side of the road. when i'm the one cooking, i'm the one calculating the points. i can microwave things. you get to eat real food. we still get to go out. we're just so much smarter about it. we can keep each other in check. going, "okay, i see you." we've lost about 110 pounds together. it helped our love life. happy wife, happy life, right? right. [ jennifer ] weight watchers online. the power of weight watchers completely online. join for free today. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and

. >> reporter: the modern bible translation movement actually began here in guatemala. this is where an indian famously challenged a missionary who was selling spanish bibles. if you're god is so smart, he said, why can't he speak kachican. they speak 21 different languages. today townsend's vision of providing god's word in every language has literally circled the globe. they are leading a final push to begin translations in the 2100 languages still without a bible. translators have a slow and tedious calling. ramida spent years studying the bokamchi language, and hired a native speaker to help, but almost fired him for his lack of computer skills. >> i bless. lord for having preventing me from making that big mistake. because this is the man who truly finished the new testament. >> reporter: he, himself, is grateful his people will now understand god's word more clearly. >> using the word of god and seeing the church grow through the word of god, when there is better understanding. >> reporter: the translators worked with partner ministries to produce a bokachi versio

. >> janz: this is the urbino bible. >> safer: for instance, this spectacular bible, commissioned inke of urbino... >> janz: ...who wanted to have a very fancy bible. >> safer: there you go. >> janz: and this is what he got. >> safer: library curator timothy janz tells us the bible took years to make by hand, letter by letter, picture by picture. >> janz: decorated with real gold. >> safer: it's just one of the library's 80,000 handwritten manuscripts from the ages before the printing press. add to that those two million or so printed books, christian and pagan, sacred and profane, in virtually every language known to man. there are thousands of prints and drawings, windows on the past. and a huge collection of ancient coins-- this was the money of palestine 2,000 years ago-- including the kind of silver coins judas was said to have been paid to betray christ. here is a map of the world, drawn 50 years before columbus; at its edge, the towers of paradise. and an immediate best seller, columbus' description of his voyage to the new world, published in 1493. in a certain way, the libra

the 1599 geneva bible. it was the first complete english translation, complete with chapters, numbered verses and 300,000 utterly unique study notes. it actually came out before the king james version and because the government didn't authorize it, it was outlawed. but it was a bible by the people, for the people, the book that built america. and now for the first time in 400 years it's available again in a beautiful leather edition. i have one, i want you to have yours too. please visit genevabible.com and get your copy of this rare and historic version of god's word today. thank you and may god bless you. >> good morning. welcome to fox and friends first. i am heather nauert. >> i am heather childers. it is half past the top of the hour. >> president obama will meet with the country's top law americas at the white house to try to reach a deal. doug luzader is following the details for us live in washington with more. what are webbings pekting today? >> maybe a break through maybe not. these are the player

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and back in the bible. it was the pillar of cloud who let the israelis through with pete out of egypt and save them from the sorrow how much the torah narratives actually dominate the mindset of israeli war planners well the religious element in both in the israeli armed forces largely subtle are driven. not orthodox jews many of whom don't want to serve in the military refuse to do so but the religious complection of the israeli defense forces is steadily increased so religion is now very much bound up with its operations the language of some rabbis during cast lead was simply hair raising in terms of evoking old testament images of genocide against non jews. i think also it's true that this use of language reflects the fact that the israeli palestinian struggle which began as a sort of struggle between two competing nationalisms and became a struggle between arabs and israelis has now become a struggle between jews and muslims in the western media though the operation pillar of cloud was renamed pillar of

. >> the books of the old testament in the bible have been in circulation as oral histories for a thousandears for the birth of jesus. they were pulled together as a whole in the second century in the christian era. the stories were passed down and preserved by word of mouth. >> it is one of the great mysteries of church history that we don't always know exactly how they spread. >> archaeologist jonathan reed and scholars are excavators. >> those writings in the second century this area was written down the sources for the gospels can be dated around the 50s that is nearly 20-years. >> there are no first editions of the gospels the originals were lost, worn out and destroyed. what is there is scraps of papaya in the greek. >> i was surprised when i studied the gospels my professors. >> she wrote a book on the gnostic gospels. >> she be long in a library. they were copied and read by the monks. the archbishop sent a letter out to the monks and said you can keep 27 of them. the other books that he told them to destroy were hidden. >> the gnostic gospels and their stories about jesus remained

the 1599 geneva bible. translation, complete with chapters, numbered verses and 300,000 utterly unique study notes. it actually came out before the king james version and because the government didn't authorize it, it was outlawed. but it was a bible by the people, for the people, the book that built america. and now for the first time in 400 years it's available again in a beautiful leather edition. i have one, i want you to have yours too. please visit genevabible.com and get your copy of this rare and historic version of god's word today. thank you and may god bless you. . >> three minutes until the top of the hour. we look at good, bad and ugwe'll start out with the good. starting with the beautiful christmas display in detroit. he lost his legs. but he climbed the ladders and strupping the lights so he could have the only light display on his block. who is the most dreaded christmas guest. it is the mother-in-law . but the father-in-law is not too far behind either. one los angeles parking enforcer on

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