Clouseau

Well you get what you pay for.

Ray Moscow

I think I'll give it a pass, too.

I'll agree with "username" in that it isn't what people think is in the Bible that are troubling -- it's what actually is in it.

"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." [Mark Twain]

Dean Anderson

Apparently you need to register for his message board (which currently has two messages on it) before you can read the online version of the book. There are links to the message board and to the book on the front page of his website.

djrafikie

This is a pretty entertaining read... worth a look

Jayhawker Soule

I suspect that greater discernment may be called for ...

Dreadnought

And in the future, before you fly off the handle, you would do well read to the end of the post where he says he is, if not the, at least an author. It doesn't take a genius to then make the connection between the name he gives and that on the cover of the book.

As for the book I don't think I'll ever read it simply because I don't need to look for more arguments to be what I already am. So I'm a bit confused as to who this book is directed at.

Dreadnought

And by choosing the interesting strategy of attacking the book first for being a scam and then for being free you have at least demonstrated that your statements are all made in the service of your preconceived notions. Of course I knew that already, but perhaps others haven't noticed so I'll point it out here as a service to the general public.

Amaleq13

That is your job as a potential consumer.

Dean Anderson

Well, I've just read it.

It certainly isn't aimed at atheists, that's for sure!

The author labels himself as an "agnostic", but from his views (as laid out in his book), he seems more of an evolution denying (or at least doubting) deist, with his particular brand of deism leaning in the direction of Jewish theism.

Many of the "shocking" revelations that he has are simply doing the opposite of what Christianity does.

Christianity took the old Hebrew Bible and creatively re-interpreted it to match its own theology, disregarding the views of the actual authors. Mr Ross appears to do the opposite. He creatively re-interprets the New Testament in terms of the Hebrew Bible instead.

Some of his revelations are fairly mundane in this manner - that the early authors of the Hebrew Bible saw the world and saw their god in a similar way to the cultures around them (with Yahweh making order from chaos rather than creating the universe ex nihilo, and Yahweh being seen as a local tribal god rather than the monotheistic and all-powerful God of the later Jews and Christians). However, he creatively re-interprets the later parts of the Bible to match these earlier ones as if it were a unified whole - like I said, the very opposite of what Christianity did.

Some of his "shockers" are more bizarre, though. He claims, for example, that Jesus was a terrorist and was the antichrist that Revelation warns about...

Toto

Like many other books of this type, and many posts here, I suspect the author is arguing with his former self.