GEOFFREY Shilvock writes in last week's issue of the Shuttle that "we can no longer read the Bible with a fundamentalist approach. It doesn't work".

Surely what doesn't work and isn't working is our own concept of what is good and evil.

I think the reference Stephen Wilcox alludes to is the account of the woman caught in the very act of adultery.

She is brought before Jesus by the leaders - religious ones of the day - insisting that she be stoned to death according to their law.

However, Jesus, knowing that all people except himself are sinners, wisely says: "He who is without sin can throw the first stone".

Of course everyone disappears pronto.

Jesus himself says: "Neither do I condemn you" and for the liberals in the church the account ends there.

However, for more careful scholars of the Scriptures it is noted that Jesus then said: "Be forgiven, go and sin no more".

We should not be stone throwers, nor should we condone ungodly acts of any kind.

Our sins were the very reason that Jesus came and died on the cross.

The key to studying the living Bible is the living spirit of Jesus today.

REV KELVIN

SHILVOCK

Sutton Park Rise

Kidderminster