The TRUTH about the Bible

[Apoxyus]

Who here actually thinks everything in the bible is 100% correct.

Those of you that actually believe that the bible is all true, then you should really go check out this book, "Misquoting Jesus", by Bart Ehrman.

[Saphiria]

everyone has their doubt about the bible, but i think it got bigger when the Da Vinci Code became big

[Embrigh]

I believe that the bible is 100% true, it's just that people can't truly comprehend it completely. Its a collection of the man's history and how he has gotten along with other men pretty much. The problem arises when you have these metaphysists who have to take everything literaly and have their head so far up their ass that common sence is ficticous to them. I mean shit if you are religous(assuming christian) and believe that God created us all, realize that He gave us the ability to reason, and reason that it was for a fucking reason, to remove your head from your ass and try to figure out what the bible really says. Yes, yes it contradicts itself like two thousand times or some shit but seriously people need to read between the lines sometimes. And if you are athiest, agnostic, or whatever then see it for the fact that it's the most influencial book ever.

[Apoxyus]

Do you know how many people wrote the bible? Like 200 different fucking people. ITS FICTION. End of story.

[Dragonsthrone]

Actually i think its closer to 40 people, and these 2000 condradictions? give me a few examples plz

[Heavens a Lie]

Here's some contradictions for starters.

http://tinyurl.com/3fwye http://tinyurl.com/ejq2r

A page that tries to explain contradiction:

http://tinyurl.com/gbf95

Trust me, there are many many contradictions. Regardless of how you look at it.

[Rust]

quote:Originally posted by Dragonsthrone:

Actually i think its closer to 40 people, and these 2000 condradictions? give me a few examples plz

Here's one:

'And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.'

1 Kings 7:23

The bible has given an erronous number for pi.

[Apoxyus]

"Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts, making the original words difficult to reconstruct. For the first time, Ehrman reveals where and why these changes were made and how scholars go about reconstructing the original words of the New Testament as closely as possible."

Pulled from a website about the book, "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart Ehrman.

[Dragonsthrone]

http://www.krysstal.com/contradi.html The first part of Genisis 2:19 says, "Now the Lord God HAD formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air." So in that one man is made after the beasts both verses. Exodus 20:13 says "You shall not murder", not you shall not kill. Exodus 32:27 is talking about a war, and killing someone in a war is different than a murder. When Exodus 20:4 talks about the graven image, it means an idol, or something that you would make and then worship (like a statue of buda). I will keep studying these parts of the Bible and see what else i can come up with

[Dragonsthrone]

Rust, I don't have a King James version Bible, but my version says "He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring..." so it wasn't a perfect circle, just circular in shape

[This message has been edited by Dragonsthrone (edited 03-16-2006).]