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    The Rational Bible: Genesis - SAMPLE
    The Rational Bible: Genesis - SAMPLE
    The Rational Bible: Genesis - SAMPLE
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    The Rational Bible: Genesis - SAMPLE

    By Dennis Prager

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    A FREE SAMPLE from Chapter 6 of Dennis Prager's The Rational BIble: Genesis!

    Why do so many people think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is outdated?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 Genesis, the first book of the Bible, will demonstrate that the Bible is not only powerfully relevant to today’s issues, but completely consistent with rational thought.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRegnery Faith
    Release dateApr 23, 2019
    ISBN9781684510122
    The Rational Bible: Genesis - 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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    • 5/5
      Interesting and well-written material. It flows well, and is easy to follow. I’ll be continuing with the series. Thought-provoking.
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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.

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    The Rational Bible - Dennis Prager

    EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER 6

    WE NEED BOTH THE GOOD URGE AND THE BAD URGE

    6.5 The Lord saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, and how every plan devised by his mind was nothing but evil all the time.

    The Hebrew word yetzer (translated here as plan) is the noun of the biblical verb to form or make. It is therefore often translated as the creative urge or impulse. One may understand it as what Freud called the Id—the human being’s primal drives and impulses that need to be reined in by the conscience. Yetzer has been central to Jewish thought from the earliest times to the present. The human being, Judaism teaches, has a good yetzer (yetzer hatov; often translated as the good inclination) and a bad yetzer (yetzer harah, the evil inclination), and they are in permanent conflict. However, Judaism has also long held that we need both yetzers. This is an enormously important insight: Were it not for the evil inclination, the Midrash teaches, men would not build homes, take wives, have children, or engage in business.1 In other words, we do a variety of good things for very mixed, sometimes purely selfish, motives.

    At the same time—and this point is less commonly noted—the yetzer hatov also must be reined in. Much of the evil of the twentieth century was caused by ideologies

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