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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.
Also, he often said to keep your self clean and tidy. Since Palestine was under the Romans, it would have most likely been fashionable to be clean shaven and have short hair - so even the image of a long haired bearded man is probably wrong.
Leviticus 19:25 forbids shaving with a razor, and a clean-shaven look might have been favored by Romanized Jews in the early Common Era, but not among observant Jews.
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I may be commenting on each post, but as far as this comment the reason Jesus is portrayed white is because white people who created these were white. In Africa Jesus and Mary are often depicted as dark skinned, in Japan, as Asian, and so on. Our Lady of Guadalupe is of a Mexican depiction of Mary.
actually the oldest depictions of Jesus, was a innocent looking kid with curly hair, waving around his wand to do the miracles...the medieval Jesus (and God) was borrowed from Jupiter(zeus) king of the gods. by the end of the Roman empire
afaik I've heard it was borrowed from the borgias. specifically cesare borgia.
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One of the few near-ish contemporary pictures we have of Jews, as an example of the local fashion. From a Syrian synagogue c.AD200 (DISCLIAMER: we have no idea how much Jewish fashions varied by time and space in this era). syrian-jew...ad28b9.jpg 
I blame Jesus Christ superstar /s Edit: I was being sarcastic sorry I didn’t make that clear
An Aryan looking Jesus goes back longer than that.
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Actually this is not true, your description is a Southern Arabian look, not a classical Levantine look. Besides the Post-Arab Colonization look (aka post 7th century when the Arab Colonized the Levantine peoples) have some differences from 1st Century Judea. Aside from Brown hair being quite common in the Levant region as well as red and blonde today and a complexation more Greek than southern Arabian. But if we look at descriptions from ancient times, from the ancient Egyptian descriptions of the Canaan/Israel region (and Syria as well) from between 1500BCE to 400BCE describe them as light olive complexion with Black, Brown, and Red Hair, Brown, Green, and Blue eyes as well. Further Greek and Roman Descriptions from the period of 300BCE to 200CE match these descriptions as well. Blonde exists if the Kurdish region back then, and seems to have become more common when the Roman brought Germanic Mercs and their families to settle on the frontier with Persia in the 4th and 5th centuries.
So while it he would not look like the classic european depiction, he also would not look like how you describe either.
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Every continent has its own Jesus, and they all look different, all kindbof colour hair and skin. And it is good so, he belongs to everyone
He definately was not from South Israel because Israel did not exist until 1948 and was created by Britain.
Look , Jeezy had that grunge look down before it was cool . Lmfao... male from a 90's suburb . Why is this so accurate ?
"Euro" Jesus was based on the pretty boy son of one of the borgia popes if I recall correctly. They wanted a more consistent look for paintings of J and daddy pope went "I have just the guy forcthat".
Not necessarily. The Hebrews were a totally different race from the surrounding peoples. When Samuel was presented with Jesse's 7th son, David, he was described as ruddy faced. Middle Eastern Arab complexions cannot be called ruddy. So white skinned (ruddy) is a distinct possibility.
Jesus was made to look safe for sales. It's strange, the United States of America mericated simple goodness.
The image of Jesus was used for evil long before the USA even existed I'm afraid
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That's because they cannot admit to the fact that they worship an immigrant, it would be too hard to admit
People are gonna be pissed when they find out he would look more like Bin Laden than the missing Bee Gee
Search for online images of late PLO leader Yassar Arafat and you'll have a good ideas of what Yeshua bir Miryam would have looked like - had he ever existed, which is not certain.
Every American and European Christian does not think this, but you think this is true about them, which is ironic.
That started with the Catholic church aka church of satan. They wanted to distance themselves from judism which is the true mother religion of Christianity. And the first christians were of my people the Israelites and all the catholic church has done is corrupt our true religion.
But it’s no problem to envision Jesus with whatever appearance relates to you…. Getting hung up on how Jesus “really” looked seems… odd.
Did Christ rise from the dead? Here's a reference for you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_16#Manuscripts_without_either_ending "The earliest extant complete manuscripts of Mark, Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, two 4th-century manuscripts, do not contain the last twelve verses, 16:9–20, nor the unversed shorter ending." Mark is the gospel written first. "The two oldest manuscripts of Mark 16 (from the 300s) conclude with verse 8, which ends with the women fleeing from the empty tomb, and saying "nothing to anyone, because they were too frightened." " Skeptics say later gospels starts tacking on stories (which accounts for the confused Christmas story). Was this a way to make the religion more appealing? The Magic 8 Ball says "Unclear. Ask later."
The Christmas story is silly. You have to read all the different accounts in the NT. The magi saw a star and followed it. But they lost track and had to stop and ask Herod if he know of the lord's birth. He did not, but alarmed, he ordered the slaughter of the innocent children. Back on the road again, the magi saw the star over the manger. Who was in charge of the erratic star that cost all those lives? Why did God announce he was sending his Son to earth with this grisly message? Then an angel warned the Holy Family to avoid Herod's area. Why didn't the angel also warn the families who were about to have their children slaughtered? I've glossed over some details but that's basically the story.
And 2,000 years ago Yeshua (Jesus) meant "servant" in Aramaic. This Peaceful Messiah was made up by the Romans in an attempt to make the violent Hebrews become peaceful.
take a look at this: Shroud of Turin Used to Create 3D Copy of Jesus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4RBXVs70_g shroud-Jes...021abf.jpg 
The Shroud of Turin has been carbon dated as being from the Middle Ages, between the years 1260 and 1390, & is nothing to do with Jesus
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I am a 60 some year old American Christian, raised in a former slave state, and I was NEVER taught that Jesus looked like a white hippie from a middle-class suburb. This myth has been running around the internet for years. Simply not true.
Possibly not true for you, but true for others. I’m a 70-something crone, raised strict Presbyterian in a town with de facto segregation, and a copy of Warner E. Sallman’s “Head of Christ” hung in every Sunday School classroom in the church. I was an adult long before it occurred to me that a man born to a Jewish woman in Judea was unlikely to look like an Italian tenor.
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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"
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?
