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Absurdity in the Bible
June 19, 2013 at 7:41 pm
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I was stumbling through the internet and I came across this site. To be honest, I contemplated placing it under humor. However, the absurdities are not simply satire. The interpretations are what one with a logical, reasonable mind would expect to encounter while reading the bible.
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/abs/long.htm
Quote:Genesis
1. God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). And how could there be "the evening and the morning" on the first day if there was no sun to mark them? 1:3-5
2. God spends one-sixth of his entire creative effort (the second day) working on a solid firmament. This strange structure, which God calls heaven, is intended to separate the higher waters from the lower waters. 1:6-8
3. Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). 1:11
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RE: Absurdity in the Bible
June 19, 2013 at 8:22 pm
I love that site. I use it as a atheist study guide to the Bible, Quran, Book of Morman, and the other works they have.
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RE: Absurdity in the Bible
June 19, 2013 at 8:54 pm
God is apparently something of a klutz.
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RE: Absurdity in the Bible
June 19, 2013 at 9:13 pm
Don't you know that when the bible says something absurd, it's meant to be a metaphor?
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RE: Absurdity in the Bible
June 19, 2013 at 9:15 pm
(June 19, 2013 at 9:13 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Don't you know that when the bible says something absurd, it's meant to be a metaphor?
If just one part of the bible cannot be taken literally, then neither can God.
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RE: Absurdity in the Bible
June 19, 2013 at 9:18 pm
You take it literally alright. You take it literally as a metaphor.
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RE: Absurdity in the Bible
June 20, 2013 at 9:11 am
(June 19, 2013 at 7:41 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: I was stumbling through the internet and I came across this site. To be honest, I contemplated placing it under humor. However, the absurdities are not simply satire. The interpretations are what one with a logical, reasonable mind would expect to encounter while reading the bible.
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/abs/long.htm
Quote:Genesis
1. God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). And how could there be "the evening and the morning" on the first day if there was no sun to mark them? 1:3-5
2. God spends one-sixth of his entire creative effort (the second day) working on a solid firmament. This strange structure, which God calls heaven, is intended to separate the higher waters from the lower waters. 1:6-8
3. Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). 1:11 Strange that skeptics say omnipotence means god can do anything when that suits there purposes, but they then think that an omnipotent god can't make light without a star as a source.
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RE: Absurdity in the Bible
June 20, 2013 at 1:55 pm
(June 20, 2013 at 9:11 am)John V Wrote: Strange that skeptics say omnipotence means god can do anything when that suits there purposes, but they then think that an omnipotent god can't make light without a star as a source.
But he was going to make a star anyway?
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RE: Absurdity in the Bible
June 20, 2013 at 2:16 pm
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Wouldn't a god who creates the laws of the universe like: sunlight is photosynthesized through plants and most plants grow dependent on sunlight? Wouldn't he use his own creation of rules to start off his creation? He has other rules too, like life converts energies of all kinds into plant growth. And for that matter, if you look back to the oldest plants, what do fossils show about the plant life??
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RE: Absurdity in the Bible
June 20, 2013 at 3:45 pm
Quote:Strange that skeptics say omnipotence means god can do anything when that suits there purposes,
Um, no. We repeat what religious assholes say about their invisible friend and then point out instances where they dismiss his failure to be omnipotent or omniscient or omwhateverthefuck you want and then ridicule their apologies for him not doing so.
Please try to pay attention.
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