The Bible. Yes of all things.

[Goat]

Like i said earlier an ex got me a bible, of all things, for x-mas. Leather front cover, gold speckled pages. very nice.

with that teeny tiny font, i figure, it's gonna take a while to get through. twelve pages into genesis and i've come to a temporary conclusion that god is an asshole.

reason #1 - the great flood - god is disgusted at people.
reason #2 - this whole eye for an eye thing is garbage.
reason #3 - abram's wife tells abram to sleep with the servent halga (gives birth to ishmale) so they can have kids - what happened to this whole thou shall not dink neighbors thing?
reason #4 - building the tower of babel - mentioning how everyones on the same page, speaking the one language, how nothing can stop them if they work together - so god says, lets go among them, scatter them to the opposite ends of the earth and make it so they don't speak the same language.

i'm not giving up yet though, jesus hasn't shown up yet, and i figure God will lighten up a bit with his arrival.

and the read continues.

[pbreak]

dude, i tried soooo hard to read this book (know thyne enemy i always say) and after making it through exodus i just couldn't handle it anymore - SO FUCKING BORING... pages upon pages of "this person fucked this person and bore all of these people, blah blah blah..."

and you're right, God's (or Yahweh if you will) kind of a prick - at one point he's tells this guy to fuck his brothers wife and when the guy refuses he kills him! What's that all about, completely opposite to modern christian thinking and yet there it is right in the bible from the man/woman/entity/everything himself/herself

[Kazuma]

Originally posted by pbreak
What's that all about, completely opposite to modern christian thinking and yet there it is right in the bible from the man/woman/entity/everything himself/herself

very good choice st not labeling the man/woman/entity/everything himself/herself anything. Saves your ass from a debate that will go on forever.

[Kandyapple]

goes to show god has grumpy days too.

just as long as he has a nice fluffy cloud for me to rest on when I die then whatever he can be a hypocrite all he wants. as long as he doesn't pull all that shit on me.

[Goat]

i've got the New International Version - none of that 'thyne'.
thou, thee, thy, i figured out is all the same thing - the lord. made things easier to read.
oh ya, something else that's uber confusing. when they say god talks to them, it's actually the voice of god, tetragammatron. really confusing actually.
that and in not ONE part of the bible does do they have a word wich makes the 'ch' sound.
ima shutup though cuz i'm starting to sound zealotous.

[*KeLLnEsS*]

Who ever said God was nice?

[Mc*Phee]

I tried to read it once. Made me too angry.

[pbreak]

Originally posted by optics


very good choice st not labeling the man/woman/entity/everything himself/herself anything. Saves your ass from a debate that will go on forever.

i'm pretty sure a thread like this will probably turn into a philosophy of religion debate and will go on forever no matter what... but at least it will have nothing to do with me!

hey Goaty - is tetragammatron a transformer? sounds like a deceptacon to me.

[Kazuma]

Originally posted by pbreak


i'm pretty sure a thread like this will probably turn into a philosophy of religion debate and will go on forever no matter what... but at least it will have nothing to do with me!

hey Goaty - is tetragammatron a transformer? sounds like a deceptacon to me.

good choice man . lol

stupid deceptacons... i wanna be a transformer. I'll be funkatron.

[kandy19]

I get mad too when I watch "The Ten Commandments" - that God dude - a real b***ard! :finger:

Charlton Heston makes me mad, he was in the movie, in real life he wants everyone to have guns.

[Rytalin]

Originally posted by *KeLLnEsS*
Who ever said God was nice?

no one did.
Goat just said he was an asshole.



[Note to everyone: God is not some bearded asshole in the sky. You are all subconciously pricks to yourselves.]

[crookedking]

you can pry the guns out of moses' cold dead hands.

[Rytalin]

Originally posted by Goat
[b]oh ya, something else that's uber confusing. when they say god talks to them, it's actually the voice of god, tetragammatron. really confusing actually.

dude dude dude
!!!!!!

where does it say that?
I need a full bible address code, right down to the verse number.

I completely missed that part.

:kam:

[Kandyapple]

(crookedking) ^LOL :kam:

[Goat]

Originally posted by pbreak


i'm pretty sure a thread like this will probably turn into a philosophy of religion debate and will go on forever no matter what... but at least it will have nothing to do with me!

hey Goaty - is tetragammatron a transformer? sounds like a deceptacon to me.

i quote - "In regard to the divine name YHWH, commonly referred to as the Tetragammatron, the translators adopted the device used in most English versions of rendering that name as "LORD" in capital letters to distinguish it from Adonai another Hebrew word rendered" Lord", for wich small letters were used.
New International version - preface vii

i know there's another reference to the voice of god somewhere in there too.

bah, bugger this. do your own research if ya don't believe me
:p

[Ggabe81]

I read the whole thing once when i was sitting in Jail for two weeks down in Long beach Calis Jail station. I was so bored its all i could do. Now i cant even stand hearing about it. "Thy shall no commith to thee bible and read it againith"- Me

[ebbomega]

The Bible is probably the most horribly translated text on the face of the earth. Especially the Old Testament.

If you think God's an asshole now, wait till you get to Deuteronomy.

[pbreak]

Originally posted by Ggabe81
I read the whole thing once when i was sitting in Jail for two weeks down in Long beach Calis Jail station. I was so bored its all i could do. Now i cant even stand hearing about it. "Thy shall no commith to thee bible and read it againith"- Me

you were in jail in long beach dude? that's rough man, not one of the nicest areas of SoCal in the first place and I can't imagine their holding cells to be much nicer... and then reading the bible on top of it all - sad story.

[Ggabe81]

Thats Histarical

[Ggabe81]

Originally posted by pbreak


you were in jail in long beach dude? that's rough man, not one of the nicest areas of SoCal in the first place and I can't imagine their holding cells to be much nicer... and then reading the bible on top of it all - sad story.

Thanks for the sympathy, but none needed, I am Military and they put me in a eight person cell all by myself cause they thought i would hurt someone. Funny hah.

[Discord]

its a pretty long read hey? I tried to read it once for a friend who was a major chirstian.. we decided to read a book for eachother

I gave her the Tao of Pooh to read at a wopping 59 or so pages with pictures.

and she gave me the bible... yeah.. every once and a while i picked it up to read.. but you know.

my old teacher made advanced english classes read this bible wirten for children.. makes it easy

[junglequeen]

old testament is tough - it all lightens up in the new
good read though if you can make it through

[jmzD]

i discovered "The Gospel of Thomas" yesterday.

it's seriously worth a peep, read about it in time magazine and then checked it out on various sites that had each of the 114 blurbs decoded. For the most part, every site had each saying decoded very similarly.

Saying # 2 - "Jesus said - He who seeks, let him not cease seeking until he finds; and when he finds he will be troubled, and when he is troubled he will be amazed, and he will reign over the All."

kinda sounds like John ripped this guy off when he wrote that widely accepted book of the New Testament, eh?

OH, & READ ABOUT GNOSTICISM... It's enlightening in a way.

[djmarkpaul]

Okay, I assume you are reading in English, so you are probably getting King James or Roman Catholic dogma.

You should read the Torah, and the Hebrew text of the Bible to have an understanding of what was washed down to the authoritarian stature of faith it is currently plagued as.

In the meantime keep an eye out for Elohim while you're on Genesis, the plural mentionings of it and other oddities of plural god-like creatures, and read the book of Revalations. That's the gold if in that mine shaft if you ask me.

[LRB]

Trying to read the whole bible straight through is almost impossible...sooooo boring...but when people suggest interesting verses and suich to read then sometimes its ok..