Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis

[Bucky Ball]

Well, first, how can you confidently assert that any belief of the Bible is “your ignorant understanding of it.” Yes, this might be true - but it might also be totally wrong. Where does the empirical evidence lead? I do very much like empirical as far as it can be validated.

You are incompetent to even begin to discuss the Bible.
You have NO training in that literature and culture. 

You talking about "empirical" is utterly hysterical. 
Where is your empirical evidence for your gods ? 

Do I need to be trained in Elizabethan literature to enjoy Shakespeare of the King James Version of the Bible? No? 

A dishonest analogy if there ever was one. Do you "believe" that Shakespeare is the word of a god ? LMAO
You are doing FAR FAR more than "enjoying" the Bible. Stop lying to yourself. 

How many have went from a Christian to an anti-Christian-Biblical bias after delving into this particular of scholarship?
I would like a very few name is you could provide them. I can provide the opposite. Are you ready to swap cards?

Irrelevant. (BTW, "have went" is improper English"). Nice try at evasion and moving the goal-posts. 

As for archeologists - I can refer some of the most prominent who have found the Bible to be accurate beyond any secular source. Actually, some were initally ardent anti-Biblical researchers whose main task was to disprove the Bible. What happened - they came to become believers because of the veracity of the historical evidences found first in the bible. 

Great. Let's have a list. Now. 

I do marvel at this wisdom of yours - “that a "god creating" is meaningless. Creating is an action process which requires time. There was no time (yet).”
Duh - what does the Bible say? Acts 17:28 “for in Him we live and move and exist,...” 

Totally irrelevant. Your babble verse has NOTHING to do with the point, which obviously went WAY over your head.

Go start your own thread and stop trolling here, and trying to DERAIL this thread.

That was a remark on one particular verse in Genesis. I might be wrong, but it seems to me words like "image" and "likeness" seem to indicate physicality rather than spirituality, at least originally. Furthermore, we have many instances in Genesis where God is depicted physically as a human being who does such things as walk in the middle of a garden and be fed food as a guest by an old couple.

Of course, the Bible also depicts God as a spirit in other instances, but this doesn't rule out the fact he is depicted as physical as well.

With all sorts of human characteristics (an anthropomorphized deity), ... like getting angry, becoming appeased, changing his mind, being sorry he did things, (even though he's supposed to be omniscient), .... but just don't forget, this deity is a timeless-changeless deity. LOL