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From the Ted Talk by A.J. Jacobs: My year of living biblically

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So that was my experience stoning, and it did allow me to talk about, in a more serious way, these big issues. How can the Bible be so barairbc in some places, and yet so iiedbrcnly wise in others? How should we view the Bible? Should we view it, you know, as original itnent, like a sort of a Scalia version of the blbie? How was the Bible written? And actually, since this is a tech crowd, I talk in the book about how the Bible actually reminds me of the Wikipedia, because it has all of these authors and editors over hundreds of years. And it's sort of evolved. It's not a book that was written and came down from on high.

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So that was my experience stoning, and it did allow me to talk about, in a more serious way, these big issues. How can the Bible be so ________ in some places, and yet so __________ wise in others? How should we view the Bible? Should we view it, you know, as original ______, like a sort of a Scalia version of the _____? How was the Bible written? And actually, since this is a tech crowd, I talk in the book about how the Bible actually reminds me of the Wikipedia, because it has all of these authors and editors over hundreds of years. And it's sort of evolved. It's not a book that was written and came down from on high.

Solution


  1. incredibly
  2. bible
  3. barbaric
  4. intent

Original Text


So that was my experience stoning, and it did allow me to talk about, in a more serious way, these big issues. How can the Bible be so barbaric in some places, and yet so incredibly wise in others? How should we view the Bible? Should we view it, you know, as original intent, like a sort of a Scalia version of the Bible? How was the Bible written? And actually, since this is a tech crowd, I talk in the book about how the Bible actually reminds me of the Wikipedia, because it has all of these authors and editors over hundreds of years. And it's sort of evolved. It's not a book that was written and came down from on high.

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