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Bible Gets A Reality Check

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The two-hour show has already stirred up a backlash among some believers. For example, the program airs archaeologists' assertions that:

The Bible's first books have been traced back to multiple authors writing over a span of centuries.


There's no evidence for the actual existence of patriarchs such as the biblical Abraham.


Some ancient adherents of Yahweh also worshiped his "wife," a fertility goddess named Asherah.


The Exodus appears to have involved just a small segment of the Jewish population rather than all Jews.

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Interesting article. Science, it appears, keeps chipping away at the mysteries of the bible. Hopefully one day will have enough evidence to prove it true or false.

I didn't get a chance to check out the show that the article is referring to. Maybe I can catch a re-run. Anyone that watched it mind commenting on if it was worth seeing?

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Originally posted by ExistenceUnknown

Bible Gets A Reality Check

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The two-hour show has already stirred up a backlash among some believers. For example, the program airs archaeologists' assertions that:

The Bible's first books have been traced back to multiple authors writing over a span of centuries.


There's no evidence for the actual existence of patriarchs such as the biblical Abraham.


Some ancient adherents of Yahweh also worshiped his "wife," a fertility goddess named Asherah.


The Exodus appears to have involved just a small segment of the Jewish population rather than all Jews.

(visit the link for the full news article)

Good post-never the the facts stand in the way of a good story.
I think most people nowadays accept that the bible is littered with factual inaccuracies,glaring discrepencies and blatant falsehoods.
I've often wondered if it is the core message people want to concentrate on ,then why not encompass 'all' of the bible's advice including the unhinged,sociopathic,homicidal instruction from the old testament?
Its a bit convenient (and hypocritical) just cherrypicking the nice bits isn't it?

[edit on 02/10/08 by karl 12]

Originally posted by ExistenceUnknown


Interesting article. Science, it appears, keeps chipping away at the mysteries of the bible. Hopefully one day will have enough evidence to prove it true or false.

I didn't get a chance to check out the show that the article is referring to. Maybe I can catch a re-run. Anyone that watched it mind commenting on if it was worth seeing?

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See this is the issue. As a Chrisitan, I don't puch much stake in the historical accuracy of the bible as much as I put in the wisdom one can get from it.

Many other Christians today believe that everything must be literally taken and that it must all be true or else it becomes invalidated. I think thats just setting yourself up for failure.

Personally, it doesn't matter to me if there was a Historical Jesus, or even if there was, that the books of new testament were all loosely based on the Q author and then taken from there.

What matters to me is the struggle that mankind has with the divine, or unconscious, or subjective realm, or whatever you want to call it, and that many people have got wisdom to share with others about this existential journey.

I applaud this program because as a Christian, the quicker we can marginalize the literalists the sooner we can have our faith back.



[edit on 20-11-2008 by HunkaHunka]

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I don't know what you're talking about, and it appears neither do you or the people on that show. It is well known that the first 5 books were written by many authors but put together by Moses. The book of Genesis has at least 10 authors, including Adam, Noah, GOD, Abraham, Jacob etc. They kept the records, probably on clay tablets and Moses put them all into one book, or the Torah, first 5 books of the Bible.

The show appears to be another one of those lets bash the Bible shows that gets nothing correct. It seems there is a lot of attacks on God and Christians and their beliefs these days... AS FORETOLD BY JESUS IN MATTHEW 24. Not bad for a 2000 year old prophecy.

Originally posted by theindependentjournal
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I don't know what you're talking about, and it appears neither do you or the people on that show. It is well known that the first 5 books were written by many authors but put together by Moses. The book of Genesis has at least 10 authors, including Adam, Noah, GOD, Abraham, Jacob etc. They kept the records, probably on clay tablets and Moses put them all into one book, or the Torah, first 5 books of the Bible.

Actually the first several chapters of Genesis were a synopsis of the Sumerian myths which came before. The Sumerian creation myths are much more involved, and therefore the origins of life were summarized in the first several chapters.

For more information check out this book of Sumerian Poetry. It's great. It's called The Harps that Once...

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I think you're on the money there. For some reason the churches of the world seem ill-at-ease when questions of this nature arise. Yet they would have been just fine if they hadn't insisted from the onset that they would 'spoon feed' people with nonsense they made up, or revised to suit their whim.

Star for you.

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Interesting article and sure to raise some anger among believers, after all no new for those that has spend their time researching on the issue of how real the second book of fable stories of the Jews" the bible" really is.

While I find the bible and interesting book of historical facts mix with fantasy and lore I will never take it very seriously for historical research only as is greatly lacking.

Still you have to give it to Christianity to pull one of the biggest scam in the world history as a fact.

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