Editor,
I want to respond to letters by William Byatt and Brandon Curtis published in the Daily Lobo on Tuesday. To call the best-selling book of all time contradictory is to be accusing God Almighty of being contradictory, since he inspired it.
Byatt mentioned that it contradicts itself on the topic of eating meat. Hundreds of prophecies were written in the Old Testament about Christ. When he was born, he not only fulfilled all those prophecies, but made some practices outlined in the Old Testament obsolete and invalid.
In Matthew 11:15, he said, "What goes into a man's mouth does not make him unclean, but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean." By making this statement, he gave his believers a green light to eat whatever meat they wanted.
How does anyone feel when they hear a curse word - doesn't this verse sound familiar? I agree with Curtis in that religion is created by human beings. Religion is a specific set of rituals, traditions and practices designed to reach God through human merits.
However, Christianity is not a religion because it was designed by God to reach humans. Furthermore, his claim that the Bible is obsolete is just ridiculous. It is a detailed chronology of humanity's existence, all the way through the very end of the world. Logically, if the world began billions of years ago, then it should also have an end. For instance, Matthew 24 mentions natural disasters with more frequency than ever before. Do Hurricane Katrina, the Southeast Asian tsunami, the Peruvian earthquake and the Indonesian earthquake ring a bell?
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Andres Saenz
UNM student
