The bible, seriously? (page 2)

Leolaia

Tower of babel, how high could have been really, I mean get over yourself god it's not that big a deal!

LOL yeah. Plus God needs to come down from heaven just to take a gander at the thing.

Wait till you get to chapter 30 and read of Jacob's unscientific principles of genetic engineering.

keyser soze

Keyser soze, you are like an "instant prophet."

Aren't I, though? Why don't I have my own book in the bible?

baltar447

LOL Leolaia, I nearly shat myself laughing when I first heard of that!!!

the truth is mine

I love a quote by Penn Gillette…'The quickest way to become an atheist…read the bible cover to cover'.

I'm really lookin forward to chapter 30 now, that sounds like it'll be a hoot! The more I read the bible without trying to make excuses for it, the more it seems like it was written by men based on the culture and acceptable customs of the time, like the way women are portrayed as mere objects and owned by men, it's disgusting. It does not add up to the loving creator portrayed by WTS. It makes no sense until you read from a different perspective.

Im sliding slowly towards atheism, not all the way there but closer.

Shawn10538

I had a similar experience. When I left the JWs, which had just as much to do with problems I had with the Bible and not necessarily the JW religion, I decided to read the Bible for the first time without just assuming it is true and god's word from the get go. I didn't even get past Gen. chapter 1 before I said all the stuff you are saying.

My conclusion is that no one really believes in the Bible. They just ASSUME the Bible.

Terry

It took thousands of years for there to even BE a thing you hold in your hand we call "bible".

All those sheepskins in rolls with no punctuation, letters running together sothatyouhavetoseparateitinourhead.

No chapters and verses...

We come along now and think what we are holding is what has always been!

In Jesus' day it was the Septuagint with NO NEW TESTAMENT at all!

We in 2012 don't realize the layers and layers and layers and layers of accretions, emendations, revisions,translations,intepretations,glosses,addenda,etc.

that came waaaay before we were ever born.

So many ignorant souls humbly accept that there is this book correctly titled HOLY BIBLE written in Shakespeare language that has always been there!

The most devout bible bangers simply memorize things and swallow the rest.

Sigh...

If you really want to think about how weird all of this is----try talking to a Muslim about the KORAN!!

Prepare to have your mind opened!

still thinking

Right...I'm off to read chapter 30....can't wait!....on second thought...can't be bothered, what a waste of time.

Witness My Fury

yep i went from a believer to now knowing it's a crock of shit after researching the bible...

It is revisionist monotheistic history written much later than we were told, i.e mostly post babylonian exile (587 bce)

Look up stuff about Ugaritic texts: http://www.theology.edu/ugarbib.htm

Look up Divine Council and Jewish monotheism and read about EL, YHWH and where Yaweh came from..:(some samples)

http://www.macdiv.ca/faculty/documents/McGinnThesisMA.pdf

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=ugaritic%20dvine%20council%20liberty.edu&source

Plenty of good books on the bible as well: Karen Armstrongs The Bible being one...

If only we'd learned to trust those silly old bible scholars eh?

How could we have been so blind and bloody dumb? Oh that's right, 'cause the WTS said so.

The bible, seriously?

tec