What is readily apparent is you trolling even these types of threads in your attempt to discredit everything I say.
You think this is about you? :lol: Oh my, your ego is showing.
The Bible is understandable to me and I have a few threads here that show I can quote liberally from the book and add my own comments without having to reference any 'expert'.
Whoopty shit. I can quote Lord of the Rings. Doesn't make Gandalf real.
God doesn't gather everybody asap, He gathers a few and the rest are parkedf in the grave until the proper time. If understanding the words in the book means I will escape death then it means your lack of (ability to) understand means you are destined to die rather than remain alive.
Moses remained alive, Pharaoh didn't.
Of course your pathetic persecution complex didn't comprehend the fact that I didn't say the Bible wasn't understandable, I said it wasn't believable. Oh, and Moses is dead.
Which shows you know nothing and your own ego stops you from being able to even listen to what others have to say about the book. If you can't comprehend the message then there is no message. That is as far as you have gotten, stuck so the fault has to be in the book rather than in your head or the heads of all the 'experts' you know that are just as clueless as you are. This post of yours is not about the Bible, it is about smearing me so what I have to say is ignored while you (empty) words are meant to be the authoritative post. It shows you are a troll and clueless about God. What fuks you up is somebody like me, who can give a sane version of what the book is all about, including why this era we are in is a time when 'proof God exists' simply will not be found no matter how hard people look. The Bible is it as far as who is gathered sooner rather than later.
You really think this is about you? Yeah, I've never gone after any other religious idiots on this forum or anything. I grew up in the church there, sport. Took until I was 16 to figure out religion was bullshit. Took a few more years to figure out that god was bullshit too.
You claim you can quote the Bible almost chapter and verse. Okay great, so which version? There's a few dozen bibles covering various sects. So which Bible version and sect are the exact right ones with the absolute unerring word of god? Was Jonah swallowed by a great fish, or a whale? Were the pyramids actually built by Jewish slaves? History shows that stuff built by slave labour does not last and/or is unreliable. Why would god make "Thou shalt not commit murder" as one of his Big 10 commandments and then instruct the Isaelites to destroy Jericho and slaughter the population to the last child?
We know the story of Noah was simply a retelling of the older story of Gilgamesh.
The idea of "resurrection" was lifted from an older religion.
Moses' origin story was lifted from an older religion.
The concept of what hell is has changed at least three times in the history of Christianity. You'd think god would want to make it perfectly clear what hell was right from the beginning.
The reference to homosexuality in the ENGLISH and Modern Greek Bibles is a result of a horrible mis-translation. When the Bible was first translated into Latin, someone confused the word 'arsenokoites' to mean man sex. The Aramaic root of that word is roughly the same and both mean "temple prostitution", as it was common at the time for temples to use prostitution to raise funds for the temple. In some temples even the high priests and priestesses would sell their bodies. In the ancient Greek 'arsenokoites' literally translated as "man-bed". Although this implies the idea of homosexuality, at the time besides meaning temple prostitution, it was also used colloquially as the equivalent of our saying "He slept with her", with the knowledge or suspicion there was very little actual sleeping going on on.
However, as the Bible was translated from Greek to Latin, someone confused arsenokites to mean "man sex" by making the literal translation from Greek to Latin, confusing 'koites" to be the same thing as 'coitus'. In modern Greek today
arsenokoites means homosexual but that ain't what it meant when the Bible was originally translated into Greek.
And the passage in Leviticus is clearly referring to bisexuality, not homosexuality. But let's assume for a moment it was referring to being gay. That "law" was written specifically for the Israelites to help grow their fledgling nation. Spilling seed in infertile soil isn't going to get the job done. That "law" also referred to acts like your wife giving you a handy-J or a nice b'jobski. But seeing as how there's 7.5 billion people now, I'd say we got the population growth going just nicely. We can afford some gay people and a nice BJ from the wife.
No dude, this has NOTHING to do with you. This has everything to do with the narrow-mindedness of religion and the people who follow it.
Whoever we are, wherever we're from
We shoulda noticed by now, our behavior is dumb
And if our chances expect to improve
It's gonna take a lot more, than trying to remove the other race
Or the other whatever, from the face
Of the planet altogether
They call it THE EARTH, which is a dumb kinda name
But they named it right, cause we behave the same...
We are dumb all over
Dumb all over, yes we are
Dumb all over, near an' far
Dumb all over, black an' white
People, we is not wrapped tight
Nerds on the left, nerds on the right
Religious fanatics on the air every night
Saying the Bible tells the story
Makes the details sound real gory
About what to do if the geeks over there
Don't believe in the book we got over here
You can't run a race without no feet
An' pretty soon there won't be no street
For dummies to jog on or doggies to dog on
Religious fanatics can make it be all gone
It won't blow up an' disappear
It'll just look ugly for a thousand years...
You can't run a country by a book of religion
Not by a heap or a lump or a smidgen
Of foolish rules of ancient date
Designed to make you all feel great
While you fold, spindle and mutilate
Those unbelievers from a neighboring state
TO ARMS! TO ARMS! Hooray! That's great
Two legs ain't bad unless there's a crate
They ship the parts to mama in
For souvenirs: two ears - Get Down!
Not his, not hers, but what the hey?
The Good Book says: "It's gotta be that way!"
But their book says: "REVENGE THE CRUSADES!!!!..."
With whips an' chains an' hand grenades..."
TWO ARMS? TWO ARMS? Have another and another
Our God says: "There ain't no other!"
Our God says: "It's all okay!"
Our God says: "This is the way!"
It says in the book: "Burn and destroy....."
An' repent, an' redeem, an' revenge, an' deploy
An' rumble thee forth to the land of the unbelieving scum on the other side
Cause they don't go for what's in the Book
An' that makes 'em BAD
So All, verily we must choppeth them up
Or stompeth them down
Or
rent a nice French bomb
to poof them out of existence
While leaving their real estate just where we need it
To use again for temples in which to praise OUR GOD
"Cause He can really take care of business!"
And when His humble TV servant
With humble white hair and humble glasses and a nice brown suit
And maybe a blond wife who takes phone calls
Tells us it's okay to do this stuff, then we're supposed do it
Cause if we don't do it, we ain't gwine up to hebbin!
(Depending on which book you're using at the time...)
Can't use theirs... it's all lies...... Gotta use mine... Ain't that right?
That's what they say -- Every night... Every day...
Hey, we can't really be dumb, if we're just following God's Orders
After all, He wrote this book here an' in the Book He says:
"He made us all to be just like Him,"
So... If we're dumb... Then God is dumb...
An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side
DUMB ALL OVER – a little ugly on the side
DUMB ALL OVER – a little ugly on the side
DUMB ALL OVER – a little ugly on the side
-Frank Zappa