old testament

Just learned that this movie, IS GENESIS HISTORY? has been released on DVD. I did a google search for the movie and was surprised to find such a small number of negative reviews and posts. I have not seen it, but it appears to be totally young earth creationist propaganda. The few negative...

I opened this for CplFerro who appears to wish to discuss it. I personally think neither is believable.

"Archaeologists at the Tel Aviv University claim that camels were not domesticated in Israel during the time period mentioned in the Bible. Carbon dating on camel bones reveals that camels were not domesticated in Israel until the 9th century BC. "According to the biblical stories of Abraham...

Homophobia is an issue that frequently comes up in religious debate. On several occasions I have posed the question as to why people believe as they do, that certain individuals must be condemned for their sexual orientation. Yet I've gotten no response other than ad hoc justification. I've...

Supposedly, the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) were all written by Moses. A number of anachronisms in the text, however, tell us that Moses, who, were he a real, historical person, lived either ca. 1450 or ca. 1200, could not have written the Torah. For starters, let's...

The Claims: Abraham pimped his wife Sarah not once [Genesis 12:9-20] but twice [Genesis 20:1-18] and gained wealth from the transactions [Genesis 13:1-8, 20:14-16]. Isaac his son also inherited the trade from his father but was not as good at it since he only pimped his wife Rebekah once...

Extortionist... Mugger... Criminal.... Mafioso... Protection Racketeer.... Murderer??? Would you call the God of the Bible All of the above? What do you call a god who wants MONEY so as to not kill people???? Exodus 30

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...

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

Inflammatory title, no? That was not my intention. Rather, I wish to open up the discussion of the specifics of the Old Testament and why they may have come about. I'm talking about dining practices, hygienics and any/all of the other great stuff in the OT/Torah. Not if they are useful...

It is very apparent from reading the Old and New Testament that the two theologies described therein are not connected in any meaningful way. Christianity took on the Torah as the Old Testament for political reasons. The god described in the Old Testament is a rip off of intolerant Babylonian...

Does anyone have a good link to an online version of the Old Testament, 5 books plus the rest, that wasn't backwards engineered from the Christian point of view? I've been able to find a bazillion New Testaments online with the Old Testament books included, but I would like to be able to...

The British Museum found a clay tablet in its collection that had information about Nebo-Sarsekim, an official in the court of Nebuchadnezzar who is mentioned briefly in Jeremiah 39. Anyway, apparently this means the Old Testament is totally accurate--or at least that's what I get reading this...

Hello everybody, In my first year of high school, I had a religion teacher who was *quite* obviously a non-believer. When reading passages stating "And God said to Buddy Joe...", he would stop, raise his head, say "What this means is that Buddy Joe was thinking, talking to himself", then...

Hello everybody, Today, on the bus, I was lucky enough to witness a witnessing, which should be just about the poorest word play I will ever come up with. Bear with me, it's early and I'm still sleepy. Anyway, a gentleman started preaching to another gentleman, stating among other things...

When did the old testament get written?

The hare does not eat the cud, and it doesn't have hoofs. So, i guess either the bible is wrong, or god isn't perfect. :/ Sincerely Tobias Sorry for being childish.

I notice JK has taken up quoting Leviticus in response to the recent supreme court ruling on anti-sodomy laws. Some more wisdom from Leviticus to go along with JK's: "And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom...