Here are some interesting Biblical quotes

[Jeffersons Ghost]

And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

[Deep13]

1. I don't get it. nt

[av8rdave]

2. They seem pretty random

[randr]

3. Was something lost in the translation?

[cleanhippie]

4. No citation? What about the CONTEXT? We need context!!!!!

:rofl:

[Ian David]

5. Malachi 2:3

Malachi 2:3
"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it."
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/mal/2.html

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. Nice quote. Here's another:

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

[Ian David]

10. So day is both evening AND morning? n/t

[happyslug]

6. Some background

The first quote is from the story of Ruth where she told her two Daughters in Law to stay in their home town and try to find new husbands since Norami's sons and (their husbands) were dead and it would be better for them to stay and re-marry then to go back to her home in Judea. One daughter in law stayed, the other, Ruth stayed with her Mother in Law.

Book of Ruth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Ruth

The Jesus Quote is from the first reported miracle he did. Jesus and his Mother, Mary, were at a wedding of a relative. The food and wine was about to give out and Mary asked Jesus for help. That was his response to her, it was NOT yet his time to go public, but do to pressure from his Mother, he made sure the food and wine did not run out.

Jesus and the Marriage:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=JOHN+2:1-11&version=KJV;

The third Paragraph is about Elijah and his conflict with the Kings of Israel. The King had sent his aides to the Temple of the Beelzebub for guidance as to his recovery from a fall, on the way to that temple the Aides meet Elijah who told them the king would never recover (and, according to the Book of Kings, he never did).

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Kings%201:2-3,6,16;&version=NIV;

Those three items are completely independent of each other, just different bibles verses given for no apparent reasons.

[ChadwickHenryWard]

8. The last one's pretty interesting.

The ancient Hebrews believed that the Earth was flat and the sky was made up of a large solid dome called the "firmament." There was water on the other side, which would come through apertures opened by god when it rained. This of course is woefully in accurate. I think it's illustrative of two things: there were huge amounts of information about our world which the authors of the bible lacked, and there are parts of the bible that are of utterly no value whatsoever. In fact, a lot of it is really quite silly.

[happyslug]

9. But it is from Genesis, the ending of Day one, and the Beginning of Day two

http://scripturetext.com/genesis/1-8.htm

Book one of Genesis is just a list of how God Created heaven and Earth in six days (As to these being one day as we understand one day to be, even William Jennings Byran in the Scopes Monkey Trial conceded them to be just steps not days as we use the term days).

AS to the Ancient Hebrews believing the world to be flat, depends on when any book of the Bible was written AND if it was important to the story being told. By the time the Bible, as we know it, was written (Most scholars suggest about the time of the Second temple and the return of the Jews to Judea under the Persians), it was understood that the world was a ball. Some of the books of the Bible use this concept, but most did not for it did not matter to what that books was talking about.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of books of Sherlock Holmes, once had Watson till Holmes that the Earth revolved around the sun, Holmes then responds like he never heard of it before. When ask why, Holmes retorted, it did not matter to his investigations if the Earth revolved around the sun, or the sun revolved around the earth. What matter was HOW it affected his investigations and for the detective work he was doing the concept of the Sun revolving around the earth was as practical as the concept of the Earth revolving around the Sun. This was a point Doyle wanted to make with this passage, just because a theory is wrong, does not make it unusable if the results of the using the wrong theory is the same as using the correct theory.

The authors of the books of the bible seems to have understood this concept and did not change the books to reflect that the world was round for if the earth revolved around the Sun, or the Sun revolved around the Earth did not matter in most of the stories of the Bible.

[edhopper]

11. No

they are not interesting at all.

[golddigger]

12. I have some interesting ones also...

Let US make man in our image, to be like US.(Gen.1:26) "This blows the one god theory."

When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the LORD GOD about in the garden. So they hid among the trees. Then the Lord God called to the man, "Where art thou? ( Gen. 3:8,9) "I thought god was all seeing?"

It was that damn woman who gave me the fruit, and I ate it. (Gen.3:12) "Adam needed to man up!"

Come, let's go down and confuse the people with different languages. (Gen. 11:7) "Another blown one god theory."

And then (Gen. 19:30-38) "Is just to sick for me to quote."

[dimbear]

13. Example of bibliomancy, one assumes.

The time honored practice of opening a Bible at random and selecting a phrase. Explains, for instance, many Biblical names, such as Orpah Winfrey.

She tired of explaining it eventually and changed it to Oprah.