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Poll: Have you read the bible
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Yes, completely.
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Yes, most parts.
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14 24.14%
No.
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11 18.97%
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Have you read the good book?
#41
RE: Have you read the good book?
(March 4, 2017 at 11:47 am)Minimalist Wrote: No.  It's obvious that I have, dumbass.

Tell me how wonderful your fucking god is.


Quote: Deuteronomy 7King James Version (KJV)
7 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

Murderous prick.

When quoting the OT, do not forget to add the footnote:
Quote: Matthew 5:17, King James Bible:
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
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#42
RE: Have you read the good book?
(February 27, 2017 at 10:06 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: "Yes, most parts."

I'll confess, the Begats bored the living shit out of me, and so did other spots in the OT.

I'm the same way. Though I did skip the psalms too, not a fan of bad translated poetry.

(February 28, 2017 at 12:09 am)PETE_ROSE Wrote:
(February 27, 2017 at 8:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I read the Skeptics Annotated Bible - except for the relentless genealogies which I skipped over.  Sick shit.  Takes a real primitive mind to write crap like that and a real dumbass to believe any of it.

Primitive mind?  Min have you read Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Proverbs, or Hebrews from the NT?  Very eloquently written.

The originals or the KJV's deliberate mistranslations?
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#43
RE: Have you read the good book?
(March 4, 2017 at 11:42 am)Joshua martin pryce Wrote: i have read the bible i understand it well. reading the bible in itself would not be something you could understand straight away. it takes asking god to help you in meditation. god is easy to understand i learned at church to visualize the passages in the bible which helps understand it clearer. you dont have to do that of course, but its a good book to read. you can learn about life and people and the devil and god reading the bible. it also gives you to key to salvation.

When exactly did the Earth stop being supported by pillars? And the Moon stop being a light? And mental illness stop being caused by demons? And the city of Tyre stop being desolate? When was Jesus born and when did he die? What, exactly, were his final words?

If we can't rely on the book for the basics, how can we trust it on the supposed major questions of salvation?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#44
RE: Have you read the good book?
(March 6, 2017 at 11:54 am)Stimbo Wrote:
(March 4, 2017 at 11:42 am)Joshua martin pryce Wrote: i have read the bible i understand it well. reading the bible in itself would not be something you could understand straight away. it takes asking god to help you in meditation. god is easy to understand i learned at church to visualize the passages in the bible which helps understand it clearer. you dont have to do that of course, but its a good book to read. you can learn about life and people and the devil and god reading the bible. it also gives you to key to salvation.

When exactly did the Earth stop being supported by pillars? And the Moon stop being a light? And mental illness stop being caused by demons? And the city of Tyre stop being desolate? When was Jesus born and when did he die? What, exactly, were his final words?

If we can't rely on the book for the basics, how can we trust it on the supposed major questions of salvation?

A really major question of Salvation is which crucifixion tale to believe, Jesus gets nailed up on Thursday, or Jesus gets nailed up on Friday ??

Guessing wrong is going to fuck up your Salvation.
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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#45
RE: Have you read the good book?
(March 4, 2017 at 11:47 am)Minimalist Wrote: No.  It's obvious that I have, dumbass.

Tell me how wonderful your fucking god is.


Quote: Deuteronomy 7King James Version (KJV)
7 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

Murderous prick.

I find it wonderfully hypocritical that you would be one of the first to cast out all of the active ISIS insurgents, anyone working for/with the Taliban or even anyone from the good olde Nazi party, but are the first to hide the nature of those in whom God cast out of this land for His People.
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#46
RE: Have you read the good book?
(March 4, 2017 at 11:42 am)Joshua martin pryce Wrote:
(February 27, 2017 at 8:40 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: In the other thread on reading common atheist literature, someone mentioned that they'd read the bible twice.  I personally haven't read the bible and I was wondering how many others were like me and hadn't read the bible.

So the question is simple.  Have you read the bible?

i have read the bible i understand it well. reading the bible in itself would not be something you could understand straight away. it takes asking god to help you in meditation. god is easy to understand i learned at church to visualize the passages in the bible which helps understand it clearer. you dont have to do that of course, but its a good book to read. you can learn about life and people and the devil and god reading the bible. it also gives you to key to salvation.

(February 28, 2017 at 1:15 am)Minimalist Wrote: Primitive shitwits.  Deal with it, lad.

Shitty philosophy and even shittier poetry.

its obvious you havent understood the meaning of the passages in the bible.

Does "understand" mean "agree with you"?

(March 6, 2017 at 4:54 pm)Drich Wrote:
(March 4, 2017 at 11:47 am)Minimalist Wrote: No.  It's obvious that I have, dumbass.

Tell me how wonderful your fucking god is.



Murderous prick.

I find it wonderfully hypocritical that you would be one of the first to cast out all of the active ISIS insurgents, anyone working for/with the Taliban or even anyone from the good olde Nazi party, but are the first to hide the nature of those in whom God cast out of this land for His People.

I find it perplexingly stupid of you that you can't seem to understand that your god is a myth to us, so he didn't do anything we could react to.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing."  - Samuel Porter Putnam
 
           

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#47
RE: Have you read the good book?
Joshua martin pryce Wrote:i have read the bible i understand it well. reading the bible in itself would not be something you could understand straight away. it takes asking god to help you in meditation. god is easy to understand i learned at church to visualize the passages in the bible which helps understand it clearer. you dont have to do that of course, but its a good book to read. you can learn about life and people and the devil and god reading the bible. it also gives you to key to salvation.

Welcome, Joshua, I hope you enjoy your time here. Would you please consider making an introduction thread?
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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#48
RE: Have you read the good book?
I read the Bible while in high school and I've the complete Quran since 2001.


The Quran is much shorter than the Bible (shorter even than the New Testament I believe) and is not that difficult a read comparatively speaking. I've only read parts of the Sunnah... ,much larger collection of writings.
If god was real he wouldn't need middle men to explain his wants or do his bidding.
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#49
RE: Have you read the good book?
I've read parts of the good book:

[Image: the-good-book.jpg]

Much better than that Bible shite.
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#50
RE: Have you read the good book?
Does this count?
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