"A "bishop" of the United Church of Christ has lashed out angrily at the Bible, condemning it as "not the word of God" and unacceptable because of the verses it contains."
"But Yvette Flunder, senior pastor at the City of Refuge United Church of Christ group in Oakland, California, has the perfect solution:
"Rip out the pages that she finds offensive and have a Third Testament to fix the first two." FULL STORY at above link.According to Jeremiah 36:20-32 King Jehoiakim king cut 3 or 4 pages out of the scroll at a time after Jehudu read portions of the scroll to him and all the princes, and then the King burned all of the pages. Jeremiah 36:29-31 shown below shows what the Lord did to punish him:Jeremiah 36:29-31, "And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence manand beast? Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not."