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    GQ Magazine Includes the Bible on List of Books 'You Don't Have to Read'

    GQ Magazine is under fire for publishing an article titled "21 Books You Don't Have to Read," which list included the Bible.

    The GQ editors who compiled the article wrote, "We've been told all our lives that we can only call ourselves well-read once we've read the Great Books. We tried...But a few pages into Bleak House, we realized that not all the Great Books have aged well. Some are racist and some are sexist, but most are just really, really boring. So we—and a group of un-boring writers—give you permission to strike these books from the canon."

    Some of the classic books that the GQ editors suggest are overrated and not worth reading include The Catcher in the Rye, The Old Man and the Sea, The Lord of the Rings, and the Bible.

    The editors claim that the Bible "is repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish, and even at times ill-intentioned."

    Several pastors and Christian leaders responded to the GQ article, including Hillsong pastor Brian Houston who tweeted, "Wow. What a way for GQ to show this irrelevance. The bible is way more hip than GQ."

    Relevant Magazine writer Jesse Carey also noted that, regardless if someone is a Christian or not, suggesting we stop reading the Bible shows a lack of understanding of how "The Bible has helped shape western philosophy and provided the basis for many of modern history's most pivotal moments."

    https://www.christianheadlines.com/b...ontent=2426594

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    That’s ok, I dont have to read GQ. Not even when standing in a long checkout line.

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    This is a primary way of exposing the cause of heresy beliefs....when a person's beliefs are peeled down to their view of the Bible...100% of the time I have found they waffle there...that the Bible is antiquated or must be interpreted through 'that culture and time' or must be blended with history and philosophy to be truth'...or some other phrase that essentially says the Bible is not TRUTH...is not supernaturally inspired word of God...THE foundation truth we build on....

    This is why I will always be grateful for the exposure in the WOF movement....it emphasized that absoluteness of the Bible as TRUTH that leads us to know and agree with God....and to deviate from it is deception...always...that it is essential to interpret our world view and not that our world view should interpret it...

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    I may have read an article from the magazine once in my whole life many years ago while sitting in a barber shop waiting to get a haircut. Otherwise, GQ has never been a part of my desired reading and definitely will never be now. But how sad that so many people will actually read that article, take it seriously, and will decide that reading the Bible is unimportant, and will never know the love of Christ. The god of this world has multiple ways of blinding men to the truth (2 Cor. 4:4)
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