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I wished the bible had this, and it is my only wish: This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the authors' imagination or are used fictitously and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely co-incidental.

Dean Anderson

Original signatures and dates for the authors of each part of the Bible (who would have all written in different colours so that we can see who wrote what) - including all the little interpolations and so on.

It would be nice to see who added what and when.

mountainman

That's what Oded Golan said
to the Tel Aviv police.

Time itself, and scientific research will unravel the
history of the invention of the Roman religion.

Theological romance was the genre described by the
author Edwin Johnson, ("Antiqua Mater: A Study of
Christian Origins") to which Eusebius' writings might
be classified. That was over 100 years ago, and
times change Chili.

I prefer to look at it as a crime story perpetrated
at the military supremacy council of Nicaea, for the
purpose of the invention of a state religion; and I
think that scientific and/or archeological evidence
may tell us more about this crime: of fraudulent
misrepresentation of ancient history, of fraudulent
interpolations into the texts of earlier authors of
antiquity, and in the perversion of extant writings
in the fourth century.

Lavish forgery on an imperial scale; the fabrication
of the Galilaeans has as much integrity as the Historia
Augusta. The genre is not romance but fraud.

Jobber

That would definitely be nice. I'm thinking that if that were the case, most people would have dumped the bible a long time ago. We would probably know that most of it is simply myth.

Tigers!

That's a good one to have. Wish I'd mentioned it.

Roger Pearse

Speaking as a hideous sadistic pervert who sells others the facilities to torture little children to death for pleasure and profit, I agree with you. It's very unkind to discriminate against people like me.

And it's dna sequence, of course. After all, what would a word in some ancient language tell us?

The names of the winners in the 4:30 at Kempton Park, and the account number at the Swiss bank where all the unclaimed and forgotten money is.

The trick to becoming rich, powerful, and irresistably attractive to women (not for me, of course, since I am already all these things -- for my friend).

Honestly, I wonder about you atheists sometimes... Keep your eyes on the ball, man.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

Tigers!

I agree that they are clear to me as you note. What I don't understand is why many Christians cannot accept it unless it is in the form of Ex. 20.

Yes you are right, my typoes. :redface:
Those references in Gen 47 are referring to the life of Jacob, not the time of the Israelites in Egypt.
If we note the Gen 47 verses (see above) this contradiction (sic) goes.

John Kesler

Uh, Tigers, look at what your request was:

Your terminus a quo was the death of Jacob, which is why I gave scriptural references which establish that Jacob died after spending 17 years in Egypt. My other reference, Exodus 12:40-41, gives the total time that the Israelites were in Egypt, 430 years, so the answer to your question is 430-17=413 years. Though your specified terminus ad quem is "the crossing of the Red Sea," 413 years is still accurate, since the amount of time between the exodus and the crossing of the Red Sea was a month or less (compare Exodus 16:1 to Numbers 33:3).

No, the contradiction still stands, as I outlined in greater detail in the thread referenced above.

enoch007

What I miss is the "Book of Rastafari"
especially the ganja part.

Roller

Richard Friedman has done something similar with Old Testament (I don't remember now if its just Pentateuch). Different sources in different colors.