Bible Fails

[McBell]

You are talking about laws given to a specific people, for a specific reason, for a specific time. 4,000 years ago.

You got anything for the last 3,000 years?

Thank you demonstrating my point.

 

[leov]

What bible fail is the most 'oof!' in your opinion?

Imagine you could only point to one issue with the bible to convince someone that it was flawed and not inerrent. What is the most damning biblical mistake that really can't be harmonised, contextualised, or explained away?

It can be a contradiction, moral failing, unhistorical event, scientific error, misquote, or whatever.

It failed to be properly understood.

 

[McBell]

It failed to be properly understood.

Did it?
Or is it there are those who failed, perhaps even on purpose, to understand it?

 

[leov]

Did it?
Or is it there are those who failed, perhaps even on purpose, to understand it?

Long time many places, different cultures, different consciousness...many built concrete exact limits around it.

 

[Audie]

I would say you making a thread like this and calling yourself a Christian trying to deny the very words of God you claim to believe and follow - shameful

You think thr bible is perfect and inerrant?
THAT is shameful.

 

[Audie]

Christians don't have to be blind.

Just the fundys. Blind and intellectuall dishonest.

 

[sooda]

Just the fundys. Blind and intellectuall dishonest.

Terrible shame..

 

[exchemist]

Ah, so God is not the author of the Bible....

Of course not. It was written by men, obviously. The Christian (and Jewish?) argument is that it has divine inspiration, which is quite a different thing from claiming it is all of equal significance or that it is free from errors made by its human authors.

The very notion of "error" in the bible is itself problematic, given that a number of the stories in it clearly need to be read allegorically, rather than being read as historically or scientifically accurate.

 

[Lyndon]

The Israelites were primitive savages, that's what the Bible teaches me.

 

[Darkforbid]

A response only possible for someone who has
not experienced violent rape.

I would kill myself if that had been forced in me.

It a response from someone talking in historical context.

 

[Darkforbid]

The Israelites were primitive savages, that's what the Bible teaches me.

Yep, primitive saveges! That must be true. That's why we're still reading their collect works today,.... For ****s sake!

 

[Audie]

Yep, primitive saveges! That must be true. That's why we're still reading their collect works today,.... For ****s sake!

Let those who think thry were so terrif go
live with them.

 

[exchemist]

The Israelites were primitive savages, that's what the Bible teaches me.

The bible is not just about the ancient Israelites, though. Have you read any of the teachings of Christ in the New Testament?

 

[Darkforbid]

Let those who think thry were so terrif go
live with them.

You think Christian have time travel machines? Good luck with that.

 

[shmogie]

Thank you demonstrating my point.

Thank you for making my point. Your complaint has never applied to Christians, nor Jews for thousands of years.

 

[Darkforbid]

Thank you for making my point. Your complaint has never applied to Christians, nor Jews for thousands of years.

I've personally never understood how anyone can throw modern thinking at achient history. It's like watching the Ben-Hur Chariot race and asking, "Why ain't they using cars?“

 

[shmogie]

Yep, primitive saveges! That must be true. That's why we're still reading their collect works today,.... For ****s sake!

The primitive savages were in Europe and parts of other continents. Israel had a written detailed system of laws, including common sense dietary and health laws.

By extension of the Jewish religion through Christianity, a faith exists in the world that that by far is held by more people than atheism.

By numbers, critical atheists compared to theists in the world are crying in the dark.

Why, if their position is so much more viable to human reason? Are most people fools?

 

[shmogie]

I've personally never understood how anyone can throw modern thinking at achient history. It's like watching the Ben-Hur Chariot race and asking, "Why ain't they using cars?“

It comes from a sense of superiority.

 

[sooda]

The primitive savages were in Europe and parts of other continents. Israel had a written detailed system of laws, including common sense dietary and health laws.

By extension of the Jewish religion through Christianity, a faith exists in the world that that by far is held by more people than atheism.

By numbers, critical atheists compared to theists in the world are crying in the dark.

Why, if their position is so much more viable to human reason? Are most people fools?

Code of Hammurabi - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dated to about 1754 BC (Middle Chronology). It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world.

 

[exchemist]

I've personally never understood how anyone can throw modern thinking at achient history. It's like watching the Ben-Hur Chariot race and asking, "Why ain't they using cars?“

I agree, but I think the implied point is that some Christians, at any rate, seem to treat the writings of these ancient people as 100% blindly applicable to us today.