Ignorance and the Bible

domer76 said:
I don’t have any Jewish neighbors. And they sure as shit aren’t trying to put their holy book into the local schools.

The OT is full of rape, slavery and mass murder. And the OT god is responsible for it all.
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I find it unlikely you don't know, and have never known Jewish people.

There are Jewish posters on this board.

But obviously this amounts to your tacit admission you have a fetish for complaining about the Hebrew Bible to Christians, but then you studiously avoid and tip toe on eggshells to not complain to Jews about the Hebrew Bible.
 
domer76 said:
Are you saying the OT god was NOT genocidal? He had his followers slaughter entire cities - man, woman, child AND animals.

Fuck man!
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No one reads the Old Testament more strictly and more literally than militant atheists and conservative evangelical Bible thumpers. Everyone else carefully considers literary style and context.

There's no archeological evidence of mass destruction of towns and cities in the Biblical lands of the Levant for the time period described.

The tribes who supposedly were wiped out in the OT show up again later chronologically in the Bible, demonstrating they were not all killed and wiped out.

The authors of the Bible obviously used hyperbole, literary licence, exaggeration when describing certain historical events. Those are not unusual literary styles.
 
domer76 said:
Were you aware of the polytheistic nature of the Old Testament?
Were you aware of the discrepancies in the Jesus birth stories?
Were you aware that your god was originally a mere second tier storm god?
Were you aware that the idea of the Trinity came a couple hundred years or so after the crucifixion?
Were you aware that the Messiah was not supposed to die?
Were you aware that the deification of Jesus was in response to the death of the Messiah?
Were you aware that the Trinity was a theological fix for the problem created by the deification of Jesus?

Of course not.
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Were you aware I'm employed by YHWH?
 
Hume said:
So, seeing Jesus perform miracles was just "literary license?"
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Yes, in my opinion the New Testament contains hyperbole, exaggeration, and mythic elements. Those are common literary forms. No one in the ancient Near East knew how to write analytical history or biography. A lot of people in the21st century try to look on the rear view mirror and project modern literary styles onto ancient people.

Jesus was obviously some kind of a faith healer, miracles aside. That is so thoroughly attested to that it has to be accepted as having some historical reality behind it.
 
Cypress said:
Yes, in my opinion the New Testament contains hyperbole, exaggeration, and mythic elements. Those are common literary forms. No one in the ancient Near East knew how to write analytical history or biography. A lot of people try to look on the rear view mirror and project modern literary styles onto ancient people.

Jesus was obviously some kind of a faith healer, miracles aside. That is so thoroughly attested to that it has to be accepted as having some historical reality behind it.
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So, doctors are healers too. Only much better than Jesus.
 
Cypress said:
Yes, in my opinion the New Testament contains hyperbole, exaggeration, and mythic elements. Those are common literary forms. No one in the ancient Near East knew how to write analytical history or biography. A lot of people in the21st century try to look on the rear view mirror and project modern literary styles onto ancient people.

Jesus was obviously some kind of a faith healer, miracles aside. That is so thoroughly attested to that it has to be accepted as having some historical reality behind it.
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Especially considering the stories were written by relatively unsophisticated people. There's wisdom to be learned but stories of miracles, magic and the like are misperceptions at best. Walking on water? No. Walking on a sandbar? Sure. Raising the dead? No. Recognizing someone is in a coma and arousing them? Okay.

Why the atheists get their panties in a bunch over this is amusing.
 
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