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Poet Speaks Up For The Bible
4 stars|4 comments|February 26, 2009|128 reads
 

According to Andrew Motion, TS Eliot and John Milton wouldn't have been able to write their masterworks without the influence of another book... the Bible.

In an interview with the Guardian, Britain's Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, said that he's disappointed by the amount of students who travel to universities without what he calls an "essential piece of cultural luggage."

The Bible's "great stories", in the words of Motion, need to be a part of school's curricula not to indoctrinate students, but to give them the historical context for everything that came after.

One Bible Illuminated's main messages is that the Bible is not just a religious text. It's the foundation of our cultural mores and an influential work of literature, whether you believe it's fact or fiction.

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Preston Pittman
 Preston Pittman
February 27, 2009

The Bible is very interesting. With other books, the more you understand the book, the more you know the author. But in the case of the bible, the more you know the author, the more you understand the book.

When you recieve the Holy Spirt, the Word comes into you so that when you read the bible now, you are coming into that which is now indwelling within you.
The Word is alive in you and has the power to transform us into Christs Likeness. Amen? I Love you.
Angela Davis
 Angela Davis
March 02, 2009

I have gone to Pastors school(was trained in 101 different ministries, I have been a Jr. High Youth leader, I Iwas our churches Worship leader, was a mom of 5 boys... then went through a divorce (no need for details ) I have been in college for 11 years total- have no degrees but take the Bible with me to every class!  My professors all see me comming (if they have not had me before- they have heard about me :0) I am now old (well old compared to the student's that are sitting in the desk's around me) and it always comes up in one form or another.  I keep a Bible in my backpack and one in my purse atall times. 

I teach art and God is in all my classes!

Mike n Laura
 Mike n Laura
March 04, 2009

Wow, well put Preston!

So many have an aversion to the bible b/c of what it stands for.... such a shame.

Bible Illuminated
 Bible Illuminated
March 04, 2009
It really is a shame.  The bible has played such an important part in our society's development.