Misconceptions about the Bible

[Nay_Sayer]

Let's see hyperbolic statements about being "silenced " Hi deepend .....

I forget the users name but the award for most hyperbolic statement went to someone who called the forum's basic rules and I quote "Inhuman" and IIRC may have compared it to tactics used by Hitler.

[Fake Messiah]

Well, firmamentum is a Latin mistranslation of the Hebrew word raqia and Greek stereoma, but even the KJV and ASV have a footnote where it appears at that reads "expansion" and "expanse" respectively. Those translations and others are based on the Latin Vulgate. It's mostly a product of the times. The science of the dark ages influenced translation. Terms like foundations of the earth and four corners of the earth are obviously figurative and still used in modern English. Falling stars are used figuratively. Stars themselves are used figuratively throughout the Bible in application of people and spirit beings.

Ah, the wrong translation and metaphors make the Bible say what you want.

[Pat Mustard]

You're perfectly entitled to disagree if you want.  It won't make you any less wrong, but it's your choice to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Actually, what I was doing is asking questions. For verification. To see where the disagreement comes from.

No, you're lying about the bible because you can't accept that it, any by extension you, is wrong.

[The Valkyrie]

It's the slow burn.  Just watching it pick up speed.

We're done.

Yes.

Yes you are.

[Jehanne]

Not to worry...Ahriman is scheduled to be readmitted tomorrow.

[TheJefe817]

We're done.

Yes.

Yes you are.

I have only been here a short while, so maybe that happens a lot.  However, I have to say that the devotion to the bit was impressive (well, impressively odd).  I mean, his intro message alone probably took hours to construct.  I can't imagine having the time to devote to something doomed to have so little payoff.  Kudos to the admins.

[arewethereyet]

Yes.

Yes you are.

I have only been here a short while, so maybe that happens a lot.  However, I have to say that the devotion to the bit was impressive (well, impressively odd).  I mean, his intro message alone probably took hours to construct.  I can't imagine having the time to devote to something doomed to have so little payoff.  Kudos to the admins.

You might be surprised at the effort put in by some of our trolls.  Especially the recurring ones.

[Jehanne]

Yes.

Yes you are.

I have only been here a short while, so maybe that happens a lot.  However, I have to say that the devotion to the bit was impressive (well, impressively odd).  I mean, his intro message alone probably took hours to construct.  I can't imagine having the time to devote to something doomed to have so little payoff.  Kudos to the admins.

Be sure to read the Administrator staff logs -- he was a sock, previously banned.

[Mister Agenda]

The Bible doesn't teach that getting an abortion is a sin.

Did they practice abortion at that time? What does sin literally mean? What about a case in which during a struggle with a man a fetus is aborted as a result? Soul for soul? Life for life?

A man who suspected his wife was pregnant by another man could bring her before the priest where she would have to drink 'bitter water' that would curse her if the accusation was true. It sounds a lot like an abortifacent and in any case the fetus would not survive the curse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordeal_of_...punishment

A sin is a transgression against divine law.

That case is actually described in the Bible, the punishment is that the woman's husband may choose to require a fine be paid to him. If the woman herself is more serious injured or killed, the law of talion comes into play. I'm not familiar with a 'soul for soul' option in the Bible.
Exodus 21:22-25