Morning Joe just brought up the Red Letters in the Bible.

[safeinOhio]

Well, I'll be damned.

[vlyons]

1. yes indeed

I saw that. You could almost see the steam coming out Steve Schmidt's ears, he was so angry.

[mucifer]

2. what are the red letters? I'm Jewish. Is it New Testament?

[madaboutharry]

3. I had to Google it.

I didn't know either. It is the version where the words actually spoken by Jesus are printed in red.

[onlyadream]

4. There are "red letter Christians"

Which I identify with. They go by Jesus’s words, not Paul’s or the Old Testament. Too bad the color is red and not blue, because the words totally line up with liberal policies.

[safeinOhio]

9. Yes, Red Letter Bibles have been around for a long time.

Now there is a movement.

https://www.redletterchristians.org

Fun to point out Jesus didn't think it was very important to talk about gay marriage or abortion..

[genxlib]

12. This is the essence of the Jefferson Bible

Thomas Jefferson created a version of the bible to remove all of the supernatural and commentary. What remains is a fairly liberal philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible

In a letter to Adams...

We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus, paring off the amphibologisms into which they have been led, by forgetting often, or not understanding, what had fallen from him, by giving their own misconceptions as his dicta, and expressing unintelligibly for others what they had not understood themselves. There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man. I have performed this operation for my own use, by cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter which is evidently his, and which is as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill.

Conservatives love to talk about the Founding Fathers but I love to throw this at them. Can you imagine a modern politician actually editing the bible. Man they would lose their minds.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. I took my Jefferson Bible to a city debate on a pro-LGBT ordinance for

public comments.

[DeminPennswoods]

5. In some bibles, the direct words of

God/Jesus are printed in red.

[MFM008]

6. Yes some versions have his

Words in red, while i have whole bibles , i only read the new testament except Revelations , which is just incomprehensible to me.

[Ilsa]

14. It's a tough one. I wish I could remember everything

my minister said about reading it. One was that we need to remember that the letter was written for the young, persecuted church. Another idea was to think about how the lessons of faithfulness can be applied now in struggles between good and evil.

And people need to remember that the author, John, was not one of the apostles; he never met Jesus.

[PearliePoo2]

7. Yes, and he had Mike Pence centered-up in his sight. nt.

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8. There are actual tapes of Jesus speaking the red letter words.

[Croney]

10. And they are VHS, so you know they're really old.

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11. ...

[Ilsa]

13. The videotapes have a sign language interpreter, too.

And he speaks in King James english!