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...spoke to this issue. We are told that the Day of Judgment is heralded, first, by the blowing of a ram's horn and, second, by "a still, small voice." This same image is used in First Kings when G-d speaks to Elijah. It reads: "And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire...
...remains remarkably similar in language to its popular predecessor. And its radical difference from the King James is apparent from the outset. In Genesis, when God discovers that Adam and Eve have eaten the forbidden fruit, the King James conjures up a roar of rebuke: "And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou has done?" The Deity in the New Living Translation sounds like a parent scolding a child who has just tracked mud into the kitchen: "How could you do such a thing...
...Minister Tony Muhammad, prophesied that within 30 days "the wrath of God will show itself in a major earthquake" because the Muslims had been evicted from their Western regional headquarters in Inglewood, California. This may be the first time since the Old Testament that anyone has called on the Lord to get involved in a real estate dispute--and set a deadline for his seismic intervention...
...town that claims the Cubs has got to love irony, and the progression up from farce toward what we can but hope is a cleansing, if tragic, resolution. And the Lord knows we're working toward...
...Sweet Dreams); a rowdy domestic life; and the all-important early, violent death, in a plane crash when she was just 30. But Patsy Cline also had the goods: this woman could sing. Her bold contralto caught the pain and truth of a lyric without ever getting histrionic. "Oh, Lord," she famously said, "I sing just like I hurt inside." The way she transformed hurt into art made Cline the Callas of country...