Science confirms the Bible?

[Cato]

Plus I stand by the New Testament as well. Less factual (well there are some corroborating facts that fit within the historical narrative, but I don't concern myself with them as I do with the OT), more spiritual.

Cool as hell! Finally I can have a conversation with a Christian that knows his gospel, and means it. So, did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on one ass or two?

[Brian37]

Plus I stand by the New Testament as well. Less factual (well there are some corroborating facts that fit within the historical narrative, but I don't concern myself with them as I do with the OT), more spiritual.

Cool as hell! Finally I can have a conversation with a Christian that knows his gospel, and means it. So, did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on one ass or two?

I'd say any motif story that includes a selfish stalker who commits a fake suicide to clamor for attention had to ride in on an ass , but it would be an ass riding on an ass.

And if I am offending Christians, good, because claims of virgin births and surviving rigor mortis have never been true and deserve no lick of value as claims. Otherwise Thor makes lightening because we observe lightening.

The only truth about Christianity that can be proven is that someone started a cult and managed to market it. But none of the fantastic claims in that comic book were ever true even if the book is peppered with real names and real people.

[Minimalist]

Please continue, good sir.

First one shows that the Bible is a copy/paste of five different books during the Captivity...it's a real mess when you try and separate the different interwoven statements. Also explains why there are different accounts in the Bible like Genesis and the slaying of Goliath. That and there was a compromise for which Bible to use, but I think even Christians acknowledge that one.

There was a cult where Yahweh was depicted as having a wife goodness named Asherah, who is seen as one of the enemy faiths in the Bible. Some speculate that this was a precursor faith and the Jews went out of their way to remove it from history....I say it's more of a cult because it was only seen in one area to my recollection (even if they tried to eradicate it, they're likely be more than just one remaining evidence...aka we have four Mayan codices.

Elohim was the name for God used during the time of Abraham, but could also been seen as the name of a supreme Canaanite god....the implications being quite destructive to the origin of the Jewish faith.

You need to find William Dever's "Did God Have A Wife." In it he details these developments. It is more in the context of "folk religion" v "state religion." For that, there needs to be a "state" and Judah developed one in the late 8th century BCE. Once you have a central monarch you quickly find priests clinging to him like the parasites they are. The idea of central government rule v a clan based and far more conservative countryside is hardly news. The attempt by rural peoples to try to hold on to their old beliefs - regardless of what they were - is well attested in history from the Pilgrimage of Grace against Henry VIII's confiscation of the monasteries or the revolts in the Vendee against Napoleon. Dever sees the same sort of dynamic. The desire of rural peoples with only a shaky allegiance to a national government seeking to maintain the old ways against some greedy priests trying to exert their power.

[Mystical]

Cool as hell! Finally I can have a conversation with a Christian that knows his gospel, and means it. So, did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on one ass or two?

Oooh oooh! I know this one!

The answer is, One ass. He hijacked it.

[NoraBrimstone]

Cool as hell! Finally I can have a conversation with a Christian that knows his gospel, and means it. So, did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on one ass or two?

Oooh oooh! I know this one!

The answer is, One ass. He hijacked it. :P

I think the word is "stole"

[Cyberman]

Nah man, he and his posse only meant to borrow it. He never told the owner though, so technically he twocked it (TWOC - Taken W/O Consent). There's a nice little morality tale for the kids! It's a wonder that donkey wasn't found burnt out up on bricks with its legs missing and the radio hocked for tab money.