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    The Rational Bible: Exodus SAMPLE
    The Rational Bible: Exodus SAMPLE
    The Rational Bible: Exodus SAMPLE
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    The Rational Bible: Exodus SAMPLE

    By Dennis Prager

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    Why do so many people think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is outdated? Why do our friends and neighbors – and sometimes we ourselves – dismiss the Bible as irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things? This explanation of the Book of Exodus, the second book of the Bible, will demonstrate that the Bible is not only powerfully relevant to today’s issues, but completely consistent with rational thought.
    Do you think the Bible permitted the trans-Atlantic slave trade? You won’t after reading this book.
    Do you struggle to love your parents? If you do, you need this book.
    Do you doubt the existence of God because belief in God is “irrational?” This book will give you reason after reason to rethink your doubts.
    The title of this commentary is, “The Rational Bible” because its approach is entirely reason-based. The reader is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. As Prager says, “If something I write does not make rational sense, I have not done my job.”
    The Rational Bible is the fruit of Dennis Prager’s forty years of teaching the Bible to people of every faith, and no faith. On virtually every page, you will discover how the text relates to the contemporary world and to your life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSalem Books
    Release dateApr 2, 2018
    ISBN9781621578567
    The Rational Bible: Exodus SAMPLE
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    Dennis Prager

    Dennis Prager writes a syndicated column, hosts a radio show carried by 120 stations, and appears regularly on major Fox venues. He is the author of Happiness Is a Serious Problem and Think a Second Time.

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      Prager has no relevant background in religious or theological studies and inserts his own views and opinions. There are far better biblical commentaries available to help in your studies. Avoid Prager's books like the plagues (pun intended).

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    The Rational Bible - Dennis Prager

    INTRODUCTION

    To the reader: Reading this Introduction will greatly enhance your understanding and enjoyment of this commentary.

    MOST PEOPLE—ESPECIALLY IN THEIR YOUNGER YEARS—PASS THROUGH A DIFFICULT time with one or both of their parents. In my teen years and twenties, I was one of them. But no matter how I felt, there was never a time I did not honor my parents. For example, from the age of twenty-one, when I left my parents’ home, I called my parents every week of their lives.

    I treated my parents with such respect because I always believed God had commanded me to do so: Honor your father and mother (Commandment Five of the Ten Commandments). The Torah —as the first five books of the Bible have always been known in Hebrew—commands us to love our neighbor, to love God, and to love the stranger; but we are never commanded to love our parents. We are commanded to honor them (and we are not commanded to honor anyone else).

    Why do I begin this introduction to a Bible commentary with this personal story?

    Because it encapsulates why I have devoted so much of my life to explaining the Torah: because its central message—that God is good and demands we be good—is the only belief that will enable us to make a good world.

    WHY THIS COMMENTARY?

    I have been teaching the Torah for much of my adult life and have devoted decades to writing this explanation of, and commentary on, the Torah.

    I have done so because I believe if people properly understand the Torah and attempt to live by its values and precepts, the world will be an infinitely kinder and more just place.

    All my life I have been preoccupied—almost obsessed—with the problem of evil: people deliberately hurting other people. At the age of sixteen, I wrote in my diary that I wanted to devote my life to influencing people to the good. That mission has animated my life. In a nutshell, I love goodness and hate evil. My favorite verse in the Bible is Those of you who love God—hate evil (Psalms 97:10).

    Because of my (and the Torah’s) preoccupation with evil, in this commentary I frequently cite the two most recent examples of mass evil—Nazism and communism. I assume all readers of this commentary have some acquaintance with Nazi evil. Tragically, however, relatively few people have much knowledge of communist evil. So, I should note here that communist regimes murdered about 100 million people and enslaved and destroyed the lives of more than a billion. If you hate evil, you must confront what Nazis and communists wrought in the twentieth century (and what others wrought before them and are doing at this time).

    I have had one other mission: to understand human beings. The two missions—promoting goodness and attaining wisdom—are linked, because it is almost impossible to do good without wisdom. All the good intentions in the world are likely to be worthless without wisdom. Many of the horrors of the twentieth century were supported by people with good intentions who lacked wisdom.

    Here, too, because it has so much wisdom, the Torah is indispensable.

    However, we live in an age that not only has little wisdom, it doesn’t even have many people who value it. People greatly value knowledge and intelligence, but not wisdom. And the lack of wisdom —certainly in America

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