Less would go wrong if the course was based on The Bible Designed To Be Read As Living Literature, edited first by the English scholar Ernest Sutherland Bates and then re-edited 60 years later by me. The objection, of course, would be to teaching God’s sacred Word as mere literature, but then if that’s not what we’re doing, why are we teaching it at all? (And by the way, I am all for teaching it, but only in the King James Version, which ranks with Shakespeare and which someone once said is the only true work of art ever composed by a committee).
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