tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post8019679394567477855..comments2024-03-27T00:26:19.644+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: How We Know The Bible Was Written By Ignorant PeopleRosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-15986347905394197452017-06-28T11:04:01.863+01:002017-06-28T11:04:01.863+01:00A good debunk.
So could it be that the Gilgamesh t...A good debunk.<br />So could it be that the Gilgamesh tablets have been inspired by Jiahu, Dadiwan and Damaidi stories? On the other hand, tsunamis happened and will happen on a regular basis, and everywhere.<br />But who knows how in a couple of thousand years the recount of the 21st century tsunami in Asia will look like? Will the 9/11 attacks get a place in a New Testament, ther Sequel?<br />Digital news info is no guarantee for indestructible preservation.<br />We have little idea how often and to what extend elements in ' original' Hebrew and Christian scriptures have been adapted and corrected, but my guess is that the so-called prophets and in particular the popes from the first christian millennium took their liturgical liberties. Read the episode on Noah's 'shame', it's not only a ridiculous story - a nude taboo in Neolithic times, really? - it also seems to have a beginning and an end and no more than that. How can a priest give a sermon on this subject without stammering? If the Curse of Ham is a misnomer for the curse upon Ham's son Canaan or the narrative was interpreted by some Jews, Christians, and Muslim as an explanation for black skin, than say so! The worst thing is that Noah turned to God for advice, and God gave the curse his blessing. <br />The same with the notably abridged episode on the Nephilim. The Hebrews wrote a much lengthier account! Clearly some heavy Christian editing/deleting has been done. By a short pope who couldn't stand tall people? dedeurshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09775849527808927607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-78784637662753834462013-07-17T07:01:39.085+01:002013-07-17T07:01:39.085+01:002222Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-3196227782572228392013-07-13T08:53:03.660+01:002013-07-13T08:53:03.660+01:00Was it the mountains as pegs to stop earthquakes o...Was it the mountains as pegs to stop earthquakes or the abolition of pleasure and the excuses for killing people you disagree with which he found so attractive?Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-84578381498485368452013-07-13T04:35:02.836+01:002013-07-13T04:35:02.836+01:00How the Bible Led Me to Islam - The Story of Joshu...How the Bible Led Me to Islam - The Story of Joshua Evans : http://youtu.be/IYMKQKSV0bYAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11909763858198232223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-28258000927071093992013-07-12T16:42:55.021+01:002013-07-12T16:42:55.021+01:00Mind you, it comes close. It DOES explain how the ...Mind you, it comes close. It DOES explain how the Jacob's Sheep got it's colours. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2030:37-39&version=KJV" rel="nofollow">Gensis 30:37-39</a>. The very next chapter even tells of God congratulating Jacob on this brilliant piece of genetic engineering, but then what did a Bronze-Age god know? :-)Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-6179022552357000762013-07-12T15:25:35.548+01:002013-07-12T15:25:35.548+01:00Yikes. That IS sort of a catch-22...Yikes. That IS sort of a catch-22...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-63040338107120866482013-07-12T15:22:45.586+01:002013-07-12T15:22:45.586+01:00Great post. As John points out in the previous com...Great post. As John points out in the previous comment, this is only really a problem for literalists. Really, literalists didn't exist until the second half of the 1800s, when the Niagara folks and the Princeton bunch started worrying that Christianity was in competition with science and decided that the Bible was a science text. <br /><br />If these stories are seen as myths or models - as a way to understand the world - they are nearly so deadly. From what I've read about Judaism, for example, it sounds as though they don't take their origin myths nearly so seriously as we take their origin myths. <br /><br />I mean, thank God nobody put a "How the Zebra Got its Stripes" story into the Bible or we'd all be talking about how France and Spain went to war for 150 years in the 1500s over the Great Zebra Heresy. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-29486757067912488342013-07-12T09:00:05.063+01:002013-07-12T09:00:05.063+01:00This is a good point you raise. If the bible is no...This is a good point you raise. If the bible is not taken literally why did god make such a mess of it. If it is meant to be taken literally, then it is incorrect. No escape for the theist.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01243905647317437724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-32212996525172143532013-07-12T02:36:27.737+01:002013-07-12T02:36:27.737+01:00It's strange how Biblical literalists remain s...It's strange how Biblical literalists remain stubbornly steadfast when their credibility has been so thoroughly demolished. As someone who moved slowly from a non-literalist, more liberal Christian tradition to non-belief, I think we can still use the absurdities of the Old Testament to good effect with 'more enlightened' Christians who no longer read the Bible literally. Those absurdities forced me to re-think my religious faith even though I never took the Fall, the Flood, the Tower of Babel etc literally. Non-literalist Christians are the more important target for rationalists - at least outside the US - since they represent the majority of believers. One avenue of persuasion is to challenge them to explain how these 'inspirational' texts and 'metaphorical' stories can be so horribly flawed and still be 'divinely inspired'.John G Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11155637543577325033noreply@blogger.com