bible

Another proof of the bible being an artifice of human making is the fact that it was written in the language of the Canaanites, a people the deity of the bible execrated and tried to extirpate but failed because they had iron chariots. And it was scripted using the flowed and incomplete Abjad...

Creeping rationality creeps along. Give it another couple of decades? No wonder the American Christian Right is worried. From -- fewer Americans believe the Bible is the “literal word of God” now than they’ve ever recorded, 20 percent. A record high of 29 percent say it’s a book of fables...

In the NT there are 13 Epistles under the name of Paul and a character with the same name [Paul] is also found in Acts of the Apostles. It is said that NT Pauline Epistles were written before the NT Gospels because they contain very little about the Jesus character as mentioned in the Gospels...

I was raised in the church. I went to Sunday School and services every Sunday. I went to Vacation Bible School in the summer and Bible camp as a teenager. I was involved in church activities all the way through college. But in all that time I doubt I had read more than a few chapters/books...

Did God ever say that Jesus is his Son? Hello all. The other day, I promised to give ‘The Big Dog’ $20.00 if he can find me even one passage in the Bible where God says that Jesus is his son. He responded with a quote from Matthew 3:17 which states: As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-the-bible-and-the-quran-a6764751.html Much too easy. I got 7 out of seven. :(

I've been reading about the "books" that didn't make it into the Christian Bible, like 3 Corinthians, the Infancy Gospel, and there are many others. It seems like inventing tall tales was a cottage industry long ago, forcing the religious authorities to separate the "true" fiction from the...

Ever hear of the book Misquoting Truth by Timothy Paul Jones? A summary of the chapters are discussed here. http://www.rightposters.com/?blog&post=misquoting-truth This passage from the link confused me His defense falls flat because there are problems which debunk this found here...

Well, have you? By "read" let's assume that I mean that you have read the majority of it. I've read all of it, but I admit to skimming all of the boring begats. I consider this to be having read the Bible. Select one of the "I am/have been a Christian" options if at any time in your life...

When Jesus finally does return most Christians will be expecting to an individual who fits the following description: A blonde haired, blue eyed, white male, who goes by the name Jesus, who was born on December 25th, considers himself to be a Christian or the son of God, or God in the flesh...

If a book or series of new books/scrolls were discovered today, how reluctant would Protestants, Catholics, etc. be to add this stuff on to the Bible? As if the knowledge of what period the Bible was finally assembled wasn't troubling enough, what if some new ancient gospel or epistle dated to...

"Archaeologists at the Tel Aviv University claim that camels were not domesticated in Israel during the time period mentioned in the Bible. Carbon dating on camel bones reveals that camels were not domesticated in Israel until the 9th century BC. "According to the biblical stories of Abraham...

A news item that showed up in my Facebook feed caught my eye today. Ever-alert for Snopes material (because some of my friends do fall for urban legends), I scanned the thing and then hit the Interwebz for the True Scoop. As it turns out, Phyllis Schafley's son, who has quite a bit of money...

Homophobia is an issue that frequently comes up in religious debate. On several occasions I have posed the question as to why people believe as they do, that certain individuals must be condemned for their sexual orientation. Yet I've gotten no response other than ad hoc justification. I've...

It's well known that christians and jews argue that the slavery related in the bible/torah was practiced in a way to protect the slave. They say that the slaves were more like debt servants and treated with dignity by their masters. History professor at the London University, Catherine Hezser...

Above is an example of a representation of what the writers of the Old Testament would have believed the phsyical world was like. What evidence, beyond the biblical description, is there that this is true? Because if it's just referencing the bible then the argument boils down to "I...

Assuming he even existed, why wouldn't he write some stuff down? I'm reading a great book on the Apocropha, "Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew" by Bart D. Ehrman. In it, he mentions the obvious fact that all the gospels, canonical or not, were written...

So, inspired by an amazing book, both enlightening and hilarious, called Good Book : the bizarre, hilarious, disturbing, marvelous, and inspiring things I learned when I read every single word of the Bible / by David Plotz, I decided to re-read the Bible. I used to be a Catholic, and during my...

So um whats up with that? The OT tells you how to buy slaves and were talking men, women and children. Even Jesus has no problem with slavery and prescribes how to be a good slave. So im thinking Christians should have no problem with it also? Even the NT has instructions on how to be a good...

Yep, it's true. The Bible was written by Satan himself to catch all the believers souls. Think about it - the more those Bible believers deny it, the more their souls belong to him. You really have to love that guy. What a genius!

In another thread, AvalonX claimed that parts of the Bible specifically are addressed to "The Christian Church." I wish for him, or anyone to prove it. A far as I know, the term Christian doesn't exist in the Bible.

One of my favorite archaeologists is Israel Finkelstein. One of his wonderful books is The Bible Unearthed I have just discovered on youtube a video series in 4 parts based upon the book above. Two other wonderful books of his are David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings...

I am currently reading the Bible (I'll put up a post on that sometime soon, although I know there are plenty of posts by previous gluttons for punishment intrepid readers), and I'm still only working my way through Exodus after three days. I'm reading through what I had understood to be the Ten...

What's written below is taken from another thread. I thought that if apologists for the Bible answered the post on that thread, it would be off topic; hence this new thread: There are a number of tests to which we might subject an alleged holy book to find out if it is genuinely inspired: 1)...

Local skeptic/atheist group, Backyard Skeptics, are planning on ripping pages out of a Bible in my hometown. http://www.ocregister.com/news/bible-317251-gleason-say.html Personally, I'm opposed. Seems to fall into the "being a dick" category.

Theists say people have existed for around 6000 years. For over 4000 of those years they would have had to have been aware of their God without the “benefit” of what is written in The Bible. So here's my challenge to Theists . . . Present your belief that a God exists without referring to...

The skeptical often think that, according to the Bible, the end would come within the lifetime of Jesus' listeners. It is a mistake to conclude this. They mistake the transfiguration, the destruction of Jerusalem, Jesus being at the right hand of power, and John's Revelation at Patmos. Matthew...

I am always amazed at the level of mental retardation that Christian fundamentalists have to go through to maintain their “faith”. But even more humiliating and more puzzling is the extent of SERVITUDE that they agree to undergo to maintain any sense of their “faith”. They have undergone a...

"The Word"/Reason/Wisdom, not "Jesus" in the usual sense, is The Way to Salvation/God the real lovers of God do not belong to any particular religion, for all the religions have the same fundamental teachings on the nature of God & how one becomes like God in respect to wisdom, love, joy, etc...

Do you think it helped erode confidence in mainstream religious beliefs, or did people just compartmentalize it as "just one kook"? I wonder if it made any difference. Of course, all I have is anecdotal evidence.... The people I've heard talk about it just chalk it up to a single nutter...