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I don't know if anyone here has seen this website but it's one of the funniest things i've ever seen: http://www.thebricktestament.com/ I can finally understand now what is going on in the Bible!

I am reading "Jerusalem, the Biography" by Simon Sebag Montefiore, and a cracking and well researched book it is. In the early chapters he writes about David, who I thought was probably fictional, but references the Tel Dan stele which seems to be good evidence that an Israelite king called...

I've been reading the OT lately and one thing I'm wondering about is the fact that some major characters in it apparently lived for hundreds upon hundreds of years until they died. Some lived for 900 years until they finally croaked. How's this possible? Is there some difference in the...

http://www.dougwils.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8171:ancient-roman-toddlers&catid=102:literary-notes :eye-poppi Wow. That's... unbelieveable. I'd be curious what Christians around here have to say about this guy's opinion.

This is an idea that occurred to me reading and commenting on the slavery thread. The only time you would really need the Bible to justify anything is if you wanted to do something immoral. You don't need a Bible to justify being nice to people, not owning slaves, not engaging in sex acts with...

I have been attempting to collate a list of similarities between stories of the Bible pre-existing stories from other religions (that is, written before the Bible was known to be written). I was wondering if anyone can comment on the veracity of my collation, and/or add to it. I have collected...

Shocking Video! :eek: :covereyes

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/interp/evolution.html Does the Bible teach evolution? And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree. -- Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping...

I am relatively new here but do enjoy stirring the pot a little with my additions and hope no one takes my comments too personal, it's all for education, discussion, and entertainment. One theme keeps cropping up and since I have not see yet a similar idea, I'd like to propose we start a new...

Can someone explain to me the meaning of the last ten words of Acts 9:5 in the King James version of the Bible? Acts 9 is the story of Saul's conversion on the road to Damascus. He experiences a bright light, and a voice saying "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" Exactly what does this...

(with apologies to Michael Shermer.) I have some literate, intelligent and rather worldly friends that peddle some of the most credophilic nonsense known. Seriously. They will find deep meaning in a fortune cookie, and argue how it relates to their lives or accurately predicted some event. They...

I've known a lot of fundies in my day, and if they're not worshiping the Bible as an almost infallible being unto itself, they're treading really close. They use the same words to describe it that they use for Jesus, they commonly use it at as an intermediary between themselves and god, they...

I'm just starting this thread so as not to further sub-hijack another thread where I called R.G. Price's article "Jesus Myth: The Case Against Historical Jesus" a piece of crank scholarship. I'm just going to go through his points, in order. It'll take me a while. If other people chime in, I...

After reading this book, which was recommended to a friend of mine who wanted to bring me back to Christianity, I am still unconvinced of the divinity of the Bible. Why? Well, the thing is, Feiler does not defend the authenticity of the Old or New Testaments. This book is mostly about cultural...

He's a transcript of a documentary about people with NDE's. http://spiritlessons.com/Documents/Rawlings/Dr_Rawlings_Near_Death_Experiences.htm TL;DR These atheists didn't believe in, or even know about hell, and then they died, went to hell and came back!

I seem to remember a part in the bible where it says that giants or titans etc in chains falling down in sheol/hell/gehanna/hades cause earthquakes, but for the life of me I can't find it. I may have read it in Enoch or something, but I'm going nuts looking for it. Anybody know the verse I'm...

The Hebrew term for woman is ishshah which literally means female man. It can also be rendered wife. The Greek word gyne is likewise either rendered as woman and wife. Since God is neither male nor female as a spirit is genderless, sexless, and he created both man and woman in his image or...

I'm going to try a different method than I have ever tried. I'm going to open a thread on the flood by simply asking anyone who cares to to ask me whatever they want to ask me about the flood. This could potentially save a great deal of time.

The Hebrew nephesh and the Greek psykhe both mean a person or animal or the life which the person or animal enjoys. In a basic literal sense the soul is the blood of any living creature and in a more figurative sense it is the life of or the person or animal itself. The soul dies, it is...

I wish I had thought of this. I think I might run this someday. Seriously. http://www.kens5.com/home/Smut-for-smut-Bibles-for-porn-offer-draws-protesters-at-UTSA-85857462.html I see no harm in it. (So long as the people involved are over aged, of course).

AvalonXQ has never tried to hide his or her belief in Bible inerrancy. That includes the idea that evolution as it is taught today has so many errors that it may be classified as incorrect and that all the miracles and stories of the Bible are a true and accurate description of what actually...

One of the reasons christianity is, and has been, so popular--the bible is so chock full of conflicting ideas and advice, the bible can support all kinds of opposing viewpoints. It's more of a Rorschach blot than a book, really. For example, money. If you want to get rich, you'll find plenty...

Here's an interesting article from livescience.com. Your thoughts?

NOTE: Bible references are from the Old King James Bible From time to time, I’ve encountered some Christian apologists who claim that there is no contradiction in the creation stories of Genesis. However, when I read Genesis chapter 1 and 2, I still see these contradictions. The most glaring...

Donald Allister, the new Bishop of Peterborough is apparently a Biblical literalist. So Andrew Brown rang him up and sought his opinions about the more awkward bits of the Bible. Lots of deliciousness!

Does the Bible teach evolution? And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree. -- Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was...

Link: Acceptable? Intolerant? Childish? Heroic? I find it irritating that there are bibles laying around in hotels anyway, though I have never vandalized one. It actually never occurred to me to do it, but now I will probably toss it in the trash at least, they can always take it out if they...

This story brightened up my Monday morning. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091019/entertainment/portugal_literature_religion

A small church in Canton, NC has announced plans to hold a book burning on Halloween. The books they plan to burn? The bible, naturally! I'm certainly no biblical scholar. The closest I get to that is visiting this forum and having read a little Bart Erhman. For you folks who know this far...

http://rawstory.com/2009/10/n-c-church-to-burn-satans-books-including-works-of-mother-theresa/ This sounds like it should be from Landover Baptist, but sadly, it's for reals.