RE: the so fallible Bible
October 15, 2013 at 11:53 am
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2013 at 12:12 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:Jesus was known to come from Nazareth, but if he truly was the messiah, then prophecy demanded that he should be born at Bethlehem.
Not really. The Bethlehem bullshit of Micah 5 is exhibit A for xtian cherry-picking of OT texts.
Quote:Micah 5
New International Version (NIV)
A Promised Ruler From Bethlehem
5 [a]Marshal your troops now, city of troops,
for a siege is laid against us.
They will strike Israel’s ruler
on the cheek with a rod.
2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
though you are small among the clans of Judah,
out of you will come for me
one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
from ancient times.”
3 Therefore Israel will be abandoned
until the time when she who is in labor bears a son,
and the rest of his brothers return
to join the Israelites.
4 He will stand and shepherd his flock
in the strength of the Lord,
in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
And they will live securely, for then his greatness
will reach to the ends of the earth.
5 And he will be our peace
when the Assyrians invade our land
and march through our fortresses.
We will raise against them seven shepherds,
even eight commanders,
6 who will rule[c] the land of Assyria with the sword,
the land of Nimrod with drawn sword.[d]
He will deliver us from the Assyrians
when they invade our land
and march across our borders.
Two problems here.
One, the promised leader is supposed to defeat the Assyrians, an attack which came in the late 8th century BC and Two, Assyria kicked the living shit out of Israel and wiped it off the face of the earth.
Not a very good performance from someone who was chosen by "god" huh?
Leave it to xtians to see "a leader from Bethlehem!!!!! Yep, there's JAYSUS!!!"
Silly fucks.
Of course, a third charge could be laid as well. Jesus never "ruled" over shit. Even in their own story he is executed like the lowest slave.
