BIBLE NON-SENSE

THE BIBLE WAS NOT ALWAYS AS IT IS NOW, SO WHICH VERSION IS THE PERFECT WORD OF GOD? AND IF THE BIBLE WAS PERFECT, WHY DID IT NEED A ‘NEW TESTAMENT/NEW VERSION?’

The Old Testament is a book based on a body of oral and written traditions from many Israelite tribes, collected together about 300 yrs after Yeshua, and even then it didn’t contain the same scriptures it does now. There are over 100 ‘books’ which were used by the early church/synagogue which are not available in the present Holy Bible. The Bible has been re-translated and re-edited by the church several times, and they ‘corrected’ many jots and tittles in it (for instance, removing the name of God). It is worth noting that the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Muslims, Jews and protestant churches are all using different versions of the Bible, and each group believes theirs is the true Word Of God.

THE DIVINITY OF YESHUA

Originally, Yeshua wasn’t considered Divine, even by the Catholic church. In fact, the church had to argue about it for quite a while before they decided on his status, and a full consensus was never reached. Those who called for Divinity won, so we never hear about the others.


MAN WAS GIVEN THE TASK OF NAMING THE ANIMALS AND CARING FOR THE GARDEN, AND GIVEN DOMINION OVER THE EARTH

Which of us can say we’ve been a good servant in caring for this garden? Why isn’t the church MASSIVELY concerned about this? I've never even heard a sermon on the subject.

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL

“And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.” (Joshua 10:13) When people didn’t know any better, this passage was merely miraculous. Now it seems merely ridiculous. Did the earth stop turning to provide this ‘extra’ day? If so, everything would have flown off into space, wouldn’t it? Or I guess the sun could have considerably have altered its orbit, probably destroying Mercury and Venus in the process, certainly leaving a trail of destruction...

THE TEN PLAGUES (Ex 5-11)

Archaeologists have been searching the Sinai dessert for centuries and have yet to find any evidence that a rather large group spent 40 years camping there. But I understand the religious want that to be covered under “mysteries.” Yet even evoking ‘mystery,’ the story itself doesn’t hold together anyway…

So God has decided that the Jews should be released from their Egyptian slavers. He picks Moses to carry this message to the pharaoh, and gives him a few magic tricks to back up the request. However, at this point, God decides to “harden Pharaoh’s heart,” so that he will refuse to release the Jews. How about the idea of softening his heart and forgetting about the magic tricks? But no, the story goes on to tell us there are plagues sent to change his mind (still never resorting to unhardening his heart). Among the plagues is the fifth plague, an epidemic among the Egyptian livestock (horses, camels, sheep, etc.). This epidemic doesn’t bother the Israelites’ CATTLE (they were very rich slaves, apparently). And yet after the last plague, as Moses leads his people out of Egypt, Pharaoh pursues him with thousands of chariots. Apparently pulled entirely by dead horses. And when engulfed in the Red Sea, the dead horses apparently die again. I’m not making this stuff up. Read it in Exodus for yourself.

Elijah, who is “righteous,” condemns 42 children to grisly death for making fun of his baldness. Sounds like a right cranky old bastard to me. And in denial, besides.

END TIMES

Every generation since the idea of an apocalypse was first thought of has sincerely believed itself to be the “last generation.” History is replete with examples of people who’ve predicted the end of the world or the arrival of aliens, and these all have one thing in common; uh…nothing happened. Anyone who asks me to sell everything and meet them on any kind of “landing field” is going to face some pretty serious questions. World is ending! Oops, still here. What’s to discuss?