Checkmate, DoW #1
2016-09-14 06:23:47 UTC
has fallen, and she can't get up! LOL, etc...
God has perfect timing. . .How could you *not* believe?
arrogance. God warned about the dangers of arrogance
for the very reason we see demonstrated in the
attitudes of Checkmate and Pandora towards the
Lord.
They reject the Lord for no other reason than their
arrogance which renders them too proud and haughty
to even READ the Bible and consider the evidence
before they reject it. Nay, they reject it while
being totally ignorant of it.
This is really an abuse of the intelligence God
created them to have and to use. It is inspired
by their false belief that THEY are superior to
any and all.
Sad, so sad. A brain is a terrible thing to waste.
contradictory ramblings, used by everyone to allegedly support whatever
agenda they wish to force on people. The supposed writings of the Big
Four were written long after their deaths. Nobody even knows anything
about most of Jesus' life. There's about twenty years that aren't even
accounted for. This is undoubtedly one of the biggest and longest
running scams in all of recorded history.
instead of taking the word of other ignorant assayers?
Before someone decides to read the bible, they should read the history
of the bible to put things in the proper context.
debunking of it first is conducive to appreciating it
for what it is - the word of God?
the Bible is God's word.
There's a difference, ya know.
claimed that the words they wrote were actually penned by others.
Here's what the Huffington Post says on that subject, and it's only one
of many sources that have come to the same conclusion:
Apart from the most rabid fundamentalists among us, nearly everyone
admits that the Bible might contain errors ? a faulty creation story
here, a historical mistake there, a contradiction or two in some other
place. But is it possible that the problem is worse than that ? that the
Bible actually contains lies?
Most people wouldn't put it that way, since the Bible is, after all,
sacred Scripture for millions on our planet. But good Christian scholars
of the Bible, including the top Protestant and Catholic scholars of
America, will tell you that the Bible is full of lies, even if they
refuse to use the term. And here is the truth: Many of the books of the
New Testament were written by people who lied about their identity,
claiming to be a famous apostle ? Peter, Paul or James ? knowing full
well they were someone else. In modern parlance, that is a lie, and a
book written by someone who lies about his identity is a forgery.
Most modern scholars of the Bible shy away from these terms, and for
understandable reasons, some having to do with their clientèle. Teaching
in Christian seminaries, or to largely Christian undergraduate
populations, who wants to denigrate the cherished texts of Scripture by
calling them forgeries built on lies? And so scholars use a different
term for this phenomenon and call such books "pseudepigrapha."
You will find this antiseptic term throughout the writings of modern
scholars of the Bible. It's the term used in university classes on the
New Testament, and in seminary courses, and in PhD. seminars. What the
people who use the term do not tell you is that it literally means
"writing that is inscribed with a lie."
And that's what such writings are. Whoever wrote the New Testament book
of 2 Peter claimed to be Peter. But scholars everywhere ? except for our
friends among the fundamentalists ? will tell you that there is no way
on God's green earth that Peter wrote the book. Someone else wrote it
claiming to be Peter. Scholars may also tell you that it was an
acceptable practice in the ancient world for someone to write a book in
the name of someone else. But that is where they are wrong. If you look
at what ancient people actually said about the practice, you'll see that
they invariably called it lying and condemned it as a deceitful
practice, even in Christian circles. 2 Peter was finally accepted into
the New Testament because the church fathers, centuries later, were
convinced that Peter wrote it. But he didn't. Someone else did. And that
someone else lied about his identity.
The same is true of many of the letters allegedly written by Paul. Most
scholars will tell you that whereas seven of the 13 letters that go
under Paul's name are his, the other six are not. Their authors merely
claimed to be Paul. In the ancient world, books like that were labeled
as pseudo ? lies.
This may all seem like a bit of antiquarian curiosity, especially for
people whose lives don't depend on the Bible or even people of faith for
whom biblical matters are a peripheral interest at best. But in fact, it
matters sometimes. Whoever wrote the book of 1 Timothy claimed to be
Paul. But he was lying about that ? he was someone else living after
Paul had died. In his book, the author of 1 Timothy used Paul's name and
authority to address a problem that he saw in the church. Women were
speaking out, exercising authority and teaching men. That had to stop.
The author told women to be silent and submissive, and reminded his
readers about what happened the first time a woman was allowed to
exercise authority over a man, in that little incident in the garden of
Eden. No, the author argued, if women wanted to be saved, they were to
have babies (1 Tim. 2:11-15).
Largely on the basis of this passage, the apostle Paul has been branded,
by more liberation minded people of recent generations, as one of
history's great misogynists. The problem, of course, is that Paul never
said any such thing. And why does it matter? Because the passage is
still used by church leaders today to oppress and silence women. Why are
there no women priests in the Catholic Church? Why are women not allowed
to preach in conservative evangelical churches? Why are there churches
today that do not allow women even to speak? In no small measure it is
because Paul allegedly taught that women had to be silent, submissive
and pregnant. Except that the person who taught this was not Paul, but
someone lying about his identity so that his readers would think he was
Paul.
It may be one of the greatest ironies of the Christian scriptures that
some of them insist on truth, while telling a lie. For no author is
truth more important than for the "Paul" of Ephesians. He refers to the
gospel as "the word of truth" (1:13); he indicates that the "truth is in
Jesus"; he tells his readers to "speak the truth" to their neighbors
(4:24-25); and he instructs his readers to "fasten the belt of truth
around your waist" (6:14). And yet he himself lied about who he was. He
was not really Paul.
It appears that some of the New Testament writers, such as the authors
of 2 Peter, 1 Timothy and Ephesians, felt they were perfectly justified
to lie in order to tell the truth. But we today can at least evaluate
their claims and realize just how human, and fallible, they were. They
were creatures of their time and place. And so too were their teachings,
lies and all.
Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious
Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the New
York Times bestselling author of 'Misquoting Jesus' and 'Jesus,
Interrupted'. His latest book, 'Forged: Writing in the Name of God ? Why
the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are', is now available
from HarperOne.
SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bart-d-ehrman/the-bible-telling-
lies-to_b_840301.html
IOW, you've been duped, and biblical scholars have known this from the
beginning.
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Checkmate, Royal Order of the DoW #1, and Official Ko0K Wrangler
AUK Hammer of Thor award, Feb. 2012 (Pre-Burnore)
Destroyer of the AUK Ko0k Vote (Post-Burnore)
Originator of the "Dance for me" (tm) lame
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Checkmate, Royal Order of the DoW #1, and Official Ko0K Wrangler
AUK Hammer of Thor award, Feb. 2012 (Pre-Burnore)
Destroyer of the AUK Ko0k Vote (Post-Burnore)
Originator of the "Dance for me" (tm) lame
Copyright © 2016
all rights reserved