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Vinnie

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Fred

My parents sent me to Catholic school and I thought the lessons were crazy. The nuns who taught were very nice but I could simply not believe what they were telling me. I later read the Bible a few times and now think that the Old testament is the only real book of the Bible and that the N.T. is an invention of later writers in the second century, this is why it is so puzzling. There never was a design for it because it seems to have been thrown together.

There are so many gods out there, whether they be Japanese gods saving the country from invading Mongol armies or Chinese generals who became gods such as Kuan or even Alexander in the west. Of course now we have people like Madonna who some think of as a god.

If God does exist and he is not from Earth, would that make him an alien ?

Bobzammel

If anybody wants an annotated bible that is unbiased toward either Christian or Athiest definitions, try the Oxford bible, which notes some contradictions, explains what's history and what probably is not, notes elements of folklore and mythological links to other Middle Eastern countries, and so on. It uses mainstream biblical scholarship and is not blinded by either faith or secularism.

mark9950

and made my conclusion.

The SAB is 100% accurate and proved it to myself.

I know tha evolution is a theory and may have anomolies,but the bible has about 5000 anomolies.Too many to be a true word of a creator GOD.

Besides the bible was written as a middle eastern religion,abraham the patriarch supposidly lived in the land of UR.

Where is UR? in the desert of southern IRAQ near KUWAIT.Sound Familar?Did we not just go to war with IRAQ?

It seems to me that the muslims may have taken their religion from an earlier ancient religion.

Man evolved and it may be a theory,but I believe it 100% because this one verse made me think

Deuteronomy 23:12-14

These verses tell us that GOd walks in the midst of thee and we should cover our poop because GOD does not step in it,not because of the environment or any other reason.

That for me broke the camels back to make me believe the theory of evolution as truth.

Grumpy

It should have been voila, too. Is it wrong to be upset about such things anymore?

Magus55

Would you be so kind as to list examples of how SAB is 100% accurate, and how you proved it yourself? Considering, numerous other people on this thread said take SAB with a grain of salt, because its pretty rediculous and misinterpreted, and nobody ever agrees with me here.

SAB is an extremely poor source of biblical criticism. Certaintly in no way 100% accurate.

WinAce

No, that was just symbolism. If you read more about the genre, you'll understand it actually makes fairly good sense as the encoded persecution/vindication dreams of early Christians.

Jabu Khan

When I first read the Bivle I believed it was the word of god but not for long. It has no depth what so ever it is one of the most biggeted ignorant things ever written in the history of mankind it makes very little sense. We are supposed to stop teaching evolution for people who believe in a literal bible yet if they would read Genesis chapter 2 they would see creation could not have happened in tje ways outlined in chapt 1 and 2 because they are as different as night and day. besides if we are to take a literal reading then Jesus said the rapture would occur before the last of the people before him died. So it already happened about 1920 years ago unless the 12th Imam was present.

Magus55

First of all, assuming by the reference to Gen 1 and 2 you are talking about its supposed contradiction? ( which btw it isn't). And Jesus never said His second coming would be in the life of the Apostles. That is one of the most constantly used verses by atheists to disprove the Bible. Its referring to Jesus' transfiguration, not His second coming.

And it has more depth than pretty much any other book ever written, especially since it supposedly came from "mere fisherman". If it had no depth, it wouldn't require studying and learning now would it?