Coming soon...The Bible...without the liberal bias

[Holly Martins]

haha, you stole my idea! :laugh:

Great minds think alike :laugh:

[triedit]

My thoughts are well expressed from this entry from Yahoo
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...4220121AAQ8jFA

"The" Bible is the assembled canon of ancient books agreed upon to be considered "the" Bible only centuries after the time of Jesus and the Apostles.

I think it may have been only in 325 AD that "the" Bible was invented by cobbling together the Hebrew Torah and the Writings and the Prophets and the Psalms and the New Testament, and throwing into the dumpster all the other books which the assembled bishops decided didn't make the cut.

Then they were able to announce - ta da! - behold, this is the Bible and yea I say unto thee that it is holy and thou hadst better not argue with us lest we have thee excommunicated.

All this was well before the Holy Qu'ran was compiled, so there is no reason why the Christians should pay any mind to it.

In those days they did not know about ancient scriptures from Babylon, Egypt, etc., so they can be excused for thinking wow, these Ten Commandments are really, really important, because they had never seen the Negative Confession of the Scribe Nepsani or the Code of Hammurabi so they could not guess how much of the Bible teaching is a knockoff of older documents.

They imagined that the Great Flood story was original because they had no knowledge of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

They thought the story of Moses was true because they had no way of recognizing that it is just the retold story of Sargon of Akkadia.

They did not see that the Book of Job may have been a Greek Tragedy.

So there is no such thing as "the original Bible in its original language." There is just a whole array of stories and ideas drawn from many sources.

[Stoney Toni]

I hope this is not a "Focus" thread......we're all in for demerit points:whistle:

Uh oh...gotta check that...:ohmy:

Hey, I know you folks better than that. I made it open, like the interpretation of...:whistle:

[JoeSchmoe]

It just shows how illogical people are to believe what is written in any bible.

It has been interpreted, re-interpreted, written to suit ideology, sections left out.... How can any thinking person logically conclude that the stories in the bible that they are reading actually came from a deity??? It's absurd.

Not to mention the selective belief of 99% of believers.
Great book: http://www.ajjacobs.com/books/yolb.asp

MOST DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW
You shall not trim the corners of your beard (Leviticus 19:27) My rabbinical beard became wildly uncomfortable, plus I was subjected to every beard joke in the history of facial hair, with about 412 ZZ Top references.


You should not lie on a bed where a mensturating woman has lain, and you can't sit on a chair where she has sat (Leviticus 15:20). That knocks out all subways and restaurants. See the Handy Seat section for my attempt to follow this.


You shall smash idols. The ban on idolatry is such a huge part of the Bible, I figured I should try to smash something. I ended up smashing my wife's fake Oscar statuette. But it felt like a hollow gesture, and it annoyed my wife by getting gold flakes all over the rug.


Put to death men and women who commit adultery. Though I did manage to figure out a way to stone adulterers. One adulterer in particular. A grumpy seventysomething man I met in the park. I used pebbles.