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Someone Online Asked, ‘What Do People Pretend Is In The Bible But Is Absolutely Not In The Bible?’ And 25 People Delivered
The Bible is known to be one of the most important books that people tend to live by. Its contents teach and inspire people as well as help them to change for the better. Despite it being widely used, studied, and referenced, very often its contents encourage people to discuss various interpretations of matters that are being written about in this collection of religious texts. Having this in mind, Reddit user @LoneShark81 asked people online to share what are the things that people pretend to be in the Bible when, in fact, these things are not there. This question gave a green light to those who have noticed some discrepancies between what is written in the Bible and how people understand these matters. Some of the things that were mentioned by users online include speculations about what Jesus or angels looked like, explanations on how hell really works, and what well-known sayings are not actually taken from the Bible.
Do you know any things that people pretend to be in the Book of Books when in reality it isn’t the truth? Which one of these matters shared by others online do you agree with? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
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Jesus being a white skinned, long haired, white boy.
Dude looks like how most black haired Middle Easterns would look like today. He was a Jew from south Israel but every European and American Christian seems to think he looks like a hippie from a middle-class suburb in the 90s.
israfilled wrote:
That Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. A pope conflated her with Mary of Bethany and an unnamed "sinful woman," because he didn't like the fact that a woman was important to Jesus and wanted to discredit her.
gentlybeepingheart responded:
Mary Magdalene was, according to the Bible, a wealthy woman who chose to support Jesus from her own resources out of gratitude for him driving demons from her. This was problematic to that Pope because it didn't quite fit what women were supposed to be like.
Mary, mother of Jesus, was important because she had been chosen specifically by God to bear Jesus and that was her main role. Mary of Bethany was the one who anointed Jesus' feet with perfume and her hair because of him saving her brother. Mary Magdalene chose to follow and support Jesus of her own free will. Mary Magdalene was successful and was not acting in response to the actions/status of a male guardian. This independence was not what the Pope and that society wanted from women, so they decided she was a prostitute. She followed Jesus instead of getting married and bearing children because nobody would marry a prostitute, not because of her own beliefs.
yet again casting women to be lower than men and punishing them for their "crimes"...........and also a controversial opinion......prostitute is not supposed to be an insult....gigolo isn't...
That money is the root of all evil. The correct quote is actually the *love* of money.
“Thou shalt hate the gays. Forget all of thy commandments specifically when dealing with queer folk, and thee will be blessed with a Facebook group.”
Disciple: "should we love even gay people?" Jesus: "Yes, we should love even those who ask stupid questions"
theres a quote somewhere in the bible that says those that turn their children away are worse than unbelievers in the eyes of god. I regularly use it when people disown their children for being gay. I'm not religious but that quote stuck with me for calling out asshole parents
“Worse than unbelievers,” - like not believing and worshipping a phony asshole god makes you bad to begin with.
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A true Christian does not hate. Even if someone is living their life against your beliefs, that is not a reason to hate them. But if you feel like you are being hated, just take a step back and try not to hate back. It creates a turbulent society. Love conquers all. If you can love those who hate you, then that will ultimately lead to a healthy mental/spiritual life. Please don't hate someone whose life is different than yours!
Hatred is not and never should be a trait of a good Christian :).
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If your reading of the Bible makes you think it's okay to hate anyone, you have read it wrong.
If I remember correctly, the passage most people use to support that homosexuality is a sin is "man should not lie with man as he does with woman' but this is actually a bad translation of what should be more like 'man should not lie with boys as he does with a woman' ie. p*dophiles.
no that alternate translation is a very modern one, and not in line with the original Hebrew which says man should not lie down with a man. That is actually the correct translation. Look at the two verses in the original hebrew "וְאֶ֨ת־זָכָ֔ר לֹ֥א תִשְׁכַּ֖ב מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י אִשָּׁ֑ה תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה הִֽוא" and "וְאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִשְׁכַּ֤ב אֶת־זָכָר֙ מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י אִשָּׁ֔ה תּוֹעֵבָ֥ה עָשׂ֖וּ שְׁנֵיהֶ֑ם מ֥וֹת יוּמָ֖תוּ דְּמֵיהֶ֥ם בָּֽם" the trying to reinvent it to say as pedophiles is not accurate at all.
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Dude I have a number of questions for you, now that you finally decided to Return. 1. why does evil exist? 2. How did you get your own mom pregnant then give birth to yourself from your mom if you were the dad in the guise of a holy ghost? 3. Why sacrifice yourself to yourself (son to father) when you could have just forgiven men in the first place? 4. Why do you think crucifixion is a big deal, plenty of other criminals got crucified but we don't worship them? 5. Please share your water-walking, healing and food multplying technology so we can end poverty, poor transport, and health issues. Ta.
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The Bible also says eating shrimp is an “abomination”. But that one’s okay, right?!
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Whole point is that all "holy" books are man-written and reviewd and adapted so many times by men in power that, to me, this make everything in those books to be all taken with a big grain of salt..
The Bible definitely goes against this. Don’t downvote me only because it is the truth and you might not like it. In Leviticus 18:22 that if a man lays with another man like he does a woman, it is detestable. Leviticus 20:13 says "If a man lies with a man as one lies with woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads" people can’t keep thinking that this whole LGBTQ+ is okay. It is definitely not and it’s unnatural.
My Roman Catholic Church has, and always will, welcome all. All. No more stupid questions.
The bible DOES say, "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites." On the other hand, I can't tell you how many fornicators (people who have sex before marriage) overlook the earlier part of that quote, thus needing to hear, "You fool! Take the plank out of your own eye, so you can see to help the person with the speck in theirs" (paraphrased) Curiously, the word translated as "homosexual" actually means one who lies like a woman with a man... this was added to "fornicator" because the OTHER gay role was already covered with "fornicator," treated no differently from heterosexual fornicators.
I read that the whole man will not lay with man thing was actually talking about pedophilia, not homosexuality
Some bible version mention "boy". That's incorrect. Those version are different than the trusted KJV version.
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This is untrue. At least one of the New Testament writers was very homophobic. Romans 1:26-27 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Unfortunately there are those that hide behind a shield of religion while throwing hate . Let us not forget that there are many religions that accept and love gay people . The man that married my husband and I came from a very religious family , and was accepted by family and church. There are churches that go out of their way to spread messages of love and acceptance. I'm not particularly religious , but I've known some very kind people who were. Let's not label all religious people as bigots
Many religions that love gay people? I have researched many, many religions, and most are homophobic. Some of the only religions that I can think of that are not homophobic are Native American religions.
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And sitting at the last supper jesus said that one of the disciples would betray him before morn. And John says, is it me jesus? And jesus answered no John, it is not you. And Peter asked is it me jesus? And jesus answered no Peter, it's not you. And Judas asked is it me jesus? And jesus sarcastically and over dramatically says IS IT ME JESUS, IS IT ME JESUS?
Did you know Romans 1:26-32 explains how some people became homosexuals!
Yes! As a lesbian I can attest to the treatment gay people get quite often. I was once asked to leave a church because I was a "distraction" as I sat beside an elderly lady who invited me and was so nervous I couldn't speak. I was young then. I wish I had the mental capacity I do now at that time. It hurt and embarrassed me. I worship the Lord and I'm a believer. Not one of us is perfect. Much love to all!
God doesn't hate anyone and we are not to judge each other but that goes for racist homophobia and other people most people on here dont argee with you.
Well homosexuality is often in the confines of “sexual sin” homosexuality was looked down upon by Christian’s, Muslims, Catholics and the like. (I mean even i was gay for a bit until my mother found out because “God” told her and gave her insight. Now i know it sounds weird but im convinced that woman has powers……….so now im scared of my mother
It literally says man who lies with man as man lies with woman shall be slaughtered. You can't just pick and choose which parts are in there. I have a bible in my house and have read it with my own eyes.
At the time Leviticus was written, it was working against the common practice of paedophilia. The original text didn't talk about men lying with men as a woman, but men lying with BOYS as a woman. There was never anything about homosexuality between adults, as I understand it.
Firstly the old testament was REPLACED by the new testament, so any laws or rules in it are now irrelevant. In the new testament there was no word for homosexual and is often mistranslated. If you study the original koine Greek it reads as Jesus was speaking against rape of children, not between two adults but for centuries the translators imposed their own homophobic values. If you still insist on regarding same sex relationship as a sin then you really need to think about how your church would welcome gay folk - christianity is all about love and Jesus must be very saddened by the number of people who twist his message to suit their own hatred
I litterally lol'd this one. Fun wording. But agree. There is a lot of debate about the passages that even mention it. I've heard that the church when they were doing translations didn't like homosexuality so they placed it in in the stead of where it talks about pedophilia. I'm not sure if that is true but that is what I'm going with until I'm proven completely wrong. Even then, I don't care. God teaches love fist. And love does not judge or hold a record of wrong. It certainly doesn't condemn people over their sexual preference that hurts no one.
Long story short: You are beautiful the way you are and don't let religious bible thumping people tell you otherwise. - follower of Jesus, believer in love
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It's literally in the bible that homosexual men should be stoned to death
If I am not mistaken didn't catholic monks used to bugger one another and enter a covenant of marriage among themselves.
This is completely false, Jesus says love all. Look a marry the whore. And the original bible never said anything about gays, the word used translates to rape or pedo stuff. It was changed to that during the niceen creed.
The_Max_V wrote:
All those people that think they're better than the rest because they openly demonstrate they're SO religious? The Bible literally say to pray and worship In secret.
beththebookgirl responded:
And, if I remember correctly, to do good deeds privately.
giosaraiv replied:
Yup. "But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you." Mathew 6:3-4.
Doing good deeds should be in secret, as getting praise from others for them defeats the purpose. Celebrating God can be done in public, but it is often more powerful to worship with one or two people in private than publicly claiming you know the truth. In other words you can have more meaningful impact sharing the word of God through the way you treat others and live your life than being someone who constantly tells people they should be doing x,y,z because that is what God wants. (I don't know if that last part makes sense)
Most stuff about Satan and Hell. He doesn't actually show up that much in the Bible and most stuff about him is taken from other previous cultures like Hades. Most of what people think of Hell is from Dante's Inferno.
RodMunch85 wrote:
The seven deadly sins
Shadrach451 replied:
However, listed in Proverbs 6:16-19 are "Seven Things God Hates" and people should maybe pay some attention to those. These are almost definitely the source of what people later construed into The Seven Deadly Sins.
I should point out that Proverbs is not a book of the law, per say. So, it's not the same as calling these things "sins". But six things "The Lord Hates" and Seven he Detests should not be taken lightly.
Proverbs 6:16
There are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies
and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
I feel like these are particularly meaningful in today's world, and Christians especially should be paying attention. There is a strong emphasis on that last item. It's highlighted in the wording. Stirring up conflict in the community is directly in opposition to the nature of God, and that sort of division is deeply embedded in our American culture right now. God hates division.
So many Christian and Non-Christian alike get “goodness” and “worthiness” wrong. People somehow got to thinking that being Christian makes you good and that believing Jesus makes you somehow less fallible or more worthy in some regard. The entire Christian belief is that humans and humanity is so completely corrupted and beyond redemption by themselves that they required Jesus to come to atone for their sins. That doesn’t mean that they’re inherently better once they believe in Jesus nor does it believe they have increased worth amongst humans as a result. Christians should be the ones who recognize that they’re the beyond redemption and need Jesus and should NOT be parading their beliefs as if they’re better than someone who doesn’t believe the same thing. This is entirely contradictory to the entire purpose of Jesus in the Christian lore. Even still, Christians use their beliefs as a prop to hate on Abortion Clinics or for some to even go on “mission trips” to people less fortunate with a seriously effed up attitude that “I’m better than them and they need my service”. I see it all the time. It’s their moment to be better than someone and it sickens me to see people pretend to be better in the name of Christianity.
Dude. Thank you. I have been talking about this for yrs . Mostly bcuz I grew up kinda poor n I went to a very good catholic school (my grandma left the Catholic school tuition $ in a trust for us when she died bcuz she was very religious n demanded we learn the ways of the lord) so I had to go to school with all the rich kids. N don't get me wrong I got a very good education but I was treated like a charity case. Ppl would bring me their old clothes, announce it to the class like they were the nicest ppl for doing so, PARENTS DID THIS S**T TOO! N all the other parents/students would be like "omg Karen, you're such a good Catholic.. god is going to reward u for being so compassionate." the biggest problem was that WE WERENT THAT POOR nor did my family EVER ask for a damn thing from ppl. Nor did we announce we weren't wealthy. We just lived in a small house so everyone assumed we needed to be their charity show Pony. It was so disgusting n so embarrassing. Also....
That people become Angels when they die. Nope.
That Satan is in any way in charge of torture in hell.
The word hell in Hebrew didn’t exist, Sheol translates best as grave. It was a place for the dead. “ the dead know nothing at all… all memory of them is forgotten” Ecc 9:5. In the Greek scriptures the term ‘fiery Gehenna’ is used. Gehenna was a literal place outside the gates of Jerusalem where refuse was burned, as well as the carcasses of animals that had been used in sacrifice or ones that were diseased etc. Everyone was familiar with it. On occasion, criminals were given the severest punishment by having their bodies burned there too, AFTER their death. This was severe as Jews carried a lot of significance with burials. It represented they were destroyed, eternally, and likened to refuse. Whenever the Greek scriptures refer to someone going to fiery Gehenna, it represented this shameful cremation after death. It never had any meaning whatsoever to torture, being burned alive, or their soul being held in an afterlife.
Kind of a reverse of the question, but a lot of people pretend that "taking the Lord's name in vain" isn't about using other people's faith against them in order to acquire ridiculous wealth, privilege, and power. God most certainly does not approve of people like Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland and any of the other mega millionaire preachers but tons of Christians ignore it because it's "spreading Christianity".
CaesarWrap said:
That god wants your sports team to win.
PokemonMaster619 responded:
Leviticus 15:22. “And the Lord said, “Go, Lions!”
I always found this idea to be among the most annoying (which, just to clarify, is different from hateful). Obsessed sports fans are annoying enough; adding God to the mix is just stupid.
The levels of hell. Dante wrote about his journey through hell. The levels are not biblical.
God helps those who help themselves, that actually comes from the Greek myths, Aesop’s fable "Hercules and the Waggoner." where a guy was having trouble with a muddy road and was praying Hercules for help, Hercules appeared and told him how to help himself, the moral being thee gods help those who help themselves.
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"
I have had a minister 'quote' that to me as a Bible quote.
It's from Hamlet.
Edit: Lots of comments about the bible having stuff like this. Yes I know but a quote is a quote and from a christian professional you would at least expect an accurate quote from the bible but this is as wrong as quoting Hamlet and saying "Alas Poor Yorik, I knew him well"
The English language is liberally sprinkled with words invented by Shakespeare and with many of his pithy writings that have become our sayings.
The vegan teacher says that being vegan is being closer to God because he doesn't want animals to die even though God was the first one to murk an animal
My brother has a friend that will argue with you that Jesus said in the Bible "Do as I say, not as I do".
el_muerte17 wrote:
"This, too, shall pass" isn't in the Bible at all.
meowtiger replied:
for clarity: it most likely originated from one of three noted 11th-13th century persian poets
Half the s**t Shakespeare said.
That Noah took two of each animal into the Ark.
He took 14: 7 male and 7 female of clean creatures and only a pair of unclean animals.
Gen 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Give that he sacrificed one of each of the clean animals that would be quite a facepalm if he only had a pair.
Gen 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
That angels are humans with wings. They're not. As far as I remember there are some depictions of them in the Revelation but not in much detail (I'm pretty sure that the four animals next to the throne aren't angels, but I may be wrong on that).
The biblical angel is some circling Sauron with many eyes, rings and wings.
Pythia007 said:
That Jesus said anything about children suffering. “Suffer the children to come unto me” means to allow them.
mcoombes314 responded:
Yeah, the word "suffer" is a weird one where the meaning has changed so much that it doesn't make sense in modern English. Same goes with "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live".
I would be willing to bet that Jesus never ever said the words 'suffer' or 'children'. Pretty sure he spoke Aramaic.
Believe what you want. Discuss what is and is not in the religious text of your choice. So long as your beliefs don't become laws I have to live by.
I am a Christian, but we are all free to believe and worship as we wish. I try to do things to live a Christian life but never try to suffocate or push my beliefs on anyone. I just read my Bible and do good things, not for recognition, and live the way I feel I am supposed to live in accordance with God's word. Your religion is as important to you as mine is to me. I respect you all. Therefore I have made no comment in this post but it was a good read. Hugs and love to all.❤
The problem is what you think are "good things" are not always good things. Plenty of Christians think they're doing good when they force gay kids into conversion therapy, or think they're doing good when they protest abortions. Religion is the main source of evil in this world.
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Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt. The words you read aren't the words of God. They are the interpretation of what someone long ago thought was a gods will, and those words have been filtered through time and the minds of people, who we know are very capable of being corrupted. How many things have been changed, added or removed to benefit someone or some group? And no one would know because much of the population was illiterate Only the rulers and the clergy would know when there was a change here or there...
"Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt." I second that. But this goes beyond religion. Everything you hear, even when presented as "fact", has to be taken with a grain of salt. Never stop questioning, comparing, hearing more sides of the same story and from different points of view. Even "scientifically approved" information can become obsolete with new discoveries.
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That women should stay home. Proverbs praises a good woman who works in her fields, then goes into town and sells her goods, and talks to people, who praise her to her husband.
Doesn’t it also say that women can’t lead in church and shouldn’t speak in church?
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I can think of another that's not much better...
Load More Replies... but to be fair - bible and christian mythology are just modifications of much older religions, much older mythologies... it doesnt matter what bible says because it was already twisted from the original story... so what, someone made up a myth, a story that became a legend, it evolved over the centuries and at some point someone wrote it down... but it kept evolving and now our mythology is also different from what was written down... someone changed things on purpose to fit their agenda, some got lost in translations or during the retelling the stories from generation to generation... but all that already happened with the bible too
I read somewhere (not the Bible probably) that ancient Jewish women used to 'purify themselves' before marriage by drinking myrrh dissolved in wine. Myrrh is an abortifacient.
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My experiences with people that have religion have taught me that the more religious the person professes to be, the less they know about their own religion.
When I see a Bible verse in an email signature, I instantly know the person is going to be incredibly hard to work with and usually a b word.
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I've always thought you could sum up almost every religion with just a few basic tenets. Be loving and kind, be charitable, be helpful, strive to be better than you are. I am no religious scholar by any means, but when I read comparative religions decades ago, I was struck by the many similarities.
Boom...I really think you hit the nail on the head right here. I think alot of those basic things you mentioned should be what we take from religions, and I mean all of them.Sum it all up with "Be cool to each other, help each other, don't be an ass, try to be a better person..."All the weird nit picky rules and laws are someone trying to push and agenda or something.
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Those who think the Bible condems tattoos. It never mentions tattoos, once. In Leviticus, it says "don't cut cross-hatching marks into your flesh in remembrance of the dead". That's it.
It's very hard to pinpoint details in a series of documents written over centuries, that have been translated by random people hundreds of times, and completely adulterated by men in the Catholic church, with half of the fantasy books being removed from the bible, now known as the apocrypha. Religion is lunacy, and that's not a problem if you don't mandate it for others.
I think the general consensus is the King James kinda sucks so I'm going to recommend finding the originals and re-doing the translation.
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Some people will believe anything they are told because they don't take the time to verify their information. This applies to the bible, history, science and about 70% of the information on the internet.
The worst enemy of the Christian faith is not atheists, agnostics, or other faiths. In my experience the most damage to Christianity is done by ignorant, intolerent, bigoted "christians."
Many Paradise Lost quotes are confused as biblical
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This whole post and its comments shows one of the best things about BP- its members. Though there were believers and atheists there was no name-calling (that I saw anyway). It also showed the wide and very diverse audience, with people from all over the world. When a person from Sweden apologizes (in better English than that spoken by many of my fellow Americans) for his grammar on a site started and run by Lithuanians and is complimented for it by people who, like me, "som inte pratar svenska," (thanks Google) it demonstrates what a global community this place is.
When White American patriotic conservatives say "it's their God given right in this country to do X,Y, and Z, republicans use this as a campaign tool all the time. No it is NOT, he did not agree to that bullsh**. He did not give you a right to do or say any of the sh** you're doing and or saying.
As in all writings isn't the Bible a matter of interpretation - some Christians interpret portions of the Bible differently Catholics are different from Protestants Jews interpret it another way and so on. This book has been translated into all languages - something could be lost or gained in the translation and over the many years the Bible has existed - has anyone added or subtracted to these translations I think this is a great possibility.
This type of article really should only be here if it was written by knowledgeable people and with provided sources. Too many people post things online with all the confidence in the world, just because they read it on some meme somewhere. Therefore, I can't trust any of this and therefore it's useless to me. But I'm very interested!
"Live your own truth and I will live mine." I think living according to the most important notions[IMHO] of "Primum non nocere" (transl. "First, do no harm")-usually associated with the field of medicine- and "treat others the way you want to be treated" would resolve most problems human beings create on this planet...
i love all the most think; they all think. that stigmatization of christians is really bad. bigotry exists, but this is not the majority. the Bible is a translation, and an interpretation made by the reader. this is why this should be kept into the private sphere. and this is why secularism is so important here where i live. if you want a good translation of the Bible i suggest the Chouraki Bible. this is probably the most accurate translation to date. Also it's not the first time i see it. but often people speaking of religion have a pretty mind blowing ignorance of the subject they're talking about
WHY is the bible written in such a weird archaic language? It is a TRANSLATION, and given the number of believers surely they can maintain some sort of a readable modern version?
Believe what you want. Discuss what is and is not in the religious text of your choice. So long as your beliefs don't become laws I have to live by.
I am a Christian, but we are all free to believe and worship as we wish. I try to do things to live a Christian life but never try to suffocate or push my beliefs on anyone. I just read my Bible and do good things, not for recognition, and live the way I feel I am supposed to live in accordance with God's word. Your religion is as important to you as mine is to me. I respect you all. Therefore I have made no comment in this post but it was a good read. Hugs and love to all.❤
The problem is what you think are "good things" are not always good things. Plenty of Christians think they're doing good when they force gay kids into conversion therapy, or think they're doing good when they protest abortions. Religion is the main source of evil in this world.
Load More Replies... Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt. The words you read aren't the words of God. They are the interpretation of what someone long ago thought was a gods will, and those words have been filtered through time and the minds of people, who we know are very capable of being corrupted. How many things have been changed, added or removed to benefit someone or some group? And no one would know because much of the population was illiterate Only the rulers and the clergy would know when there was a change here or there...
"Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt." I second that. But this goes beyond religion. Everything you hear, even when presented as "fact", has to be taken with a grain of salt. Never stop questioning, comparing, hearing more sides of the same story and from different points of view. Even "scientifically approved" information can become obsolete with new discoveries.
Load More Replies... That women should stay home. Proverbs praises a good woman who works in her fields, then goes into town and sells her goods, and talks to people, who praise her to her husband.
Doesn’t it also say that women can’t lead in church and shouldn’t speak in church?
Load More Replies... I can think of another that's not much better...
Load More Replies... but to be fair - bible and christian mythology are just modifications of much older religions, much older mythologies... it doesnt matter what bible says because it was already twisted from the original story... so what, someone made up a myth, a story that became a legend, it evolved over the centuries and at some point someone wrote it down... but it kept evolving and now our mythology is also different from what was written down... someone changed things on purpose to fit their agenda, some got lost in translations or during the retelling the stories from generation to generation... but all that already happened with the bible too
I read somewhere (not the Bible probably) that ancient Jewish women used to 'purify themselves' before marriage by drinking myrrh dissolved in wine. Myrrh is an abortifacient.
Load More Replies... My experiences with people that have religion have taught me that the more religious the person professes to be, the less they know about their own religion.
When I see a Bible verse in an email signature, I instantly know the person is going to be incredibly hard to work with and usually a b word.
Load More Replies... I've always thought you could sum up almost every religion with just a few basic tenets. Be loving and kind, be charitable, be helpful, strive to be better than you are. I am no religious scholar by any means, but when I read comparative religions decades ago, I was struck by the many similarities.
Boom...I really think you hit the nail on the head right here. I think alot of those basic things you mentioned should be what we take from religions, and I mean all of them.Sum it all up with "Be cool to each other, help each other, don't be an ass, try to be a better person..."All the weird nit picky rules and laws are someone trying to push and agenda or something.
Load More Replies... Those who think the Bible condems tattoos. It never mentions tattoos, once. In Leviticus, it says "don't cut cross-hatching marks into your flesh in remembrance of the dead". That's it.
It's very hard to pinpoint details in a series of documents written over centuries, that have been translated by random people hundreds of times, and completely adulterated by men in the Catholic church, with half of the fantasy books being removed from the bible, now known as the apocrypha. Religion is lunacy, and that's not a problem if you don't mandate it for others.
I think the general consensus is the King James kinda sucks so I'm going to recommend finding the originals and re-doing the translation.
Load More Replies... Some people will believe anything they are told because they don't take the time to verify their information. This applies to the bible, history, science and about 70% of the information on the internet.
The worst enemy of the Christian faith is not atheists, agnostics, or other faiths. In my experience the most damage to Christianity is done by ignorant, intolerent, bigoted "christians."
Many Paradise Lost quotes are confused as biblical
Load More Replies... This whole post and its comments shows one of the best things about BP- its members. Though there were believers and atheists there was no name-calling (that I saw anyway). It also showed the wide and very diverse audience, with people from all over the world. When a person from Sweden apologizes (in better English than that spoken by many of my fellow Americans) for his grammar on a site started and run by Lithuanians and is complimented for it by people who, like me, "som inte pratar svenska," (thanks Google) it demonstrates what a global community this place is.
When White American patriotic conservatives say "it's their God given right in this country to do X,Y, and Z, republicans use this as a campaign tool all the time. No it is NOT, he did not agree to that bullsh**. He did not give you a right to do or say any of the sh** you're doing and or saying.
As in all writings isn't the Bible a matter of interpretation - some Christians interpret portions of the Bible differently Catholics are different from Protestants Jews interpret it another way and so on. This book has been translated into all languages - something could be lost or gained in the translation and over the many years the Bible has existed - has anyone added or subtracted to these translations I think this is a great possibility.
This type of article really should only be here if it was written by knowledgeable people and with provided sources. Too many people post things online with all the confidence in the world, just because they read it on some meme somewhere. Therefore, I can't trust any of this and therefore it's useless to me. But I'm very interested!
"Live your own truth and I will live mine." I think living according to the most important notions[IMHO] of "Primum non nocere" (transl. "First, do no harm")-usually associated with the field of medicine- and "treat others the way you want to be treated" would resolve most problems human beings create on this planet...
i love all the most think; they all think. that stigmatization of christians is really bad. bigotry exists, but this is not the majority. the Bible is a translation, and an interpretation made by the reader. this is why this should be kept into the private sphere. and this is why secularism is so important here where i live. if you want a good translation of the Bible i suggest the Chouraki Bible. this is probably the most accurate translation to date. Also it's not the first time i see it. but often people speaking of religion have a pretty mind blowing ignorance of the subject they're talking about
WHY is the bible written in such a weird archaic language? It is a TRANSLATION, and given the number of believers surely they can maintain some sort of a readable modern version?
