Serious bible students questions about the bible

by TTWSYF 13 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    A serious look at how the Bible came to be causes atheism.

    Decisions of groups of men made hundreds of years ago were enforced and there's the Bible. Decisions were based on politics, influence, popularity, what particular writings could do to help or harm the Church. As humans, we cannot even agree on recent history, so we will never agree on how the Bible came to be what it is.

    If JW's really thought about it, they use the Protestant Bible without the Apocrypha, modified to their own doctrine, and instead of denying that, they pretend God had such a huge hand in making it so, despite the same people who brought them the NWT making a claim that they are not "inspired' or "infallible" but, somehow their warped translation of the Bible was guided by God.


  • HowTheBibleWasCreated
    HowTheBibleWasCreated

    Disillusioned JW

    Read Plato's Laws:

    1. Ideal society is 12 tribes

    2. Set a foundation story of conquest or colonization

    3. Gives laws as if they come from a divine being (Plato was a monotheist)

    The creation story in Genesis 2 is paralleled in Symposium and Timaeus.

    As for Iliad David's story is paralleled closely. Note the story in 1 Samuel 17 with Goliath.

    The stories of Noah's drunkenness' and the three angels visiting abraham are taken right out of Baucis and Philemon.

    As for Jephthah and his daughter and the closely related Abraham and Isaac binding story. These are taken from Agamemnon and Iphigeneia

  • pistolpete
    pistolpete
  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    pistolpete, that Mormon Trilogy story is the exact way that any writings came to be decided upon for the Bible canon. Some warped people sold the idea that this book had the tiniest bit of logic to it or that another book would harm the teachings or way the priests manipulate the people.

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