Atheists & Agnostics
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Turbineguy
(37,329 posts)and call others heretics.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Youre ignoring the context. Youre interpreting it wrong. You're letting your bias get in the way.
The bible is the infallible word of god. What you see as a contradiction is your fault for not understanding.
Got it now?
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)rexcat
(3,622 posts)it's all an allegory unless there is a need for something to be taken literally to fit someone's world view. This is always done at the discretion of the person making the judgment with no rhyme or reason needed. Believers are given magical abilities by their god to make those distinctions.
LostOne4Ever
(9,288 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 16, 2014, 06:15 PM - Edit history (2)
Why am I not surprised?
Edit: I need to learn to read better
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)counting the whole book's basic contradiction with reality.... that there's some god.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)He's staring at you from the ceiling right now.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Each of them with the right and true gospel.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)If God wants to make contradictions in the word of God then he can rightly do so. We can't know the grand plan a God. He's just testing us. He's putting fear in us cause he loves us so.
progressoid
(49,990 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)I always thought that was where God supposedly pulled his shit together, but apparently not.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Honestly the scripture that states "God's word is never changing" cancels out all the changes
So keep killing babies, it's all good
Soylent Brice
(8,308 posts)onager
(9,356 posts)Earlier as in 1926.
Wheless was from Tennessee and raised a Southern Methodist. And unfortunately for Bibleists, he became a lawyer.
Having been raised in the church, Wheless got to wondering about contradictions in the Bible.
And being a lawyer, he approached the problem in a lawyerly way - he bought several Bibles, cut them apart and mounted them on boards so he could directly compare passages.
Wheless wrote two books that probably sound ho-hum in the age of New Atheism, but were groundbreaking for atheism back in the 1920s - "Is It God's Word?" and "Forgery In Christianity."
He was one of the first proponents of the "Jesus Myth" theory and is pretty much forgotten today. Which is sad.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)onager
(9,356 posts)I guess I meant "forgotten" in the sense that's he's not a big name anymore in atheism. Or something like that. I'm a geezer so I'm often not quite sure what I mean. And get off my lawn, you young whipper-snapper!
This is a great Amazon review of Wheless' book "Is It God's Word?:"
This book combines wit erudition humour and devastating textual comparison to catch the bible writers out in their contradictions and self serving invented laws and prophecies. If I had read this book 20 year ago I could have saved myself 18 years in the cult of evangelical christianity. Reading this book played a decisive part in my deprogramming there from. No doubt modern higher biblical criticism could tidy up some of the details in Wheless' book...Meanwhile buy this and read it for shear enjoyment of the prose and the humour that can be had from critical study of that looney book the bible.
rexcat
(3,622 posts)in the christian holy book. It just looks that way to fool the non-believers.