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Skeptical Views of "Everything in the Old Testament is perverted and distorted into meanings never intended by the writers. The practice which the writers of the books employ is not more false than it is absurd. They state some trifling case of the person they call Jesus Christ, and then cut out a sentence from some passage of the OT and call it a prophecy of that case. But when the words thus cut out are restored to the places they are taken from, and read with the words before and after them, they give the lie to the New Testament."--Thomas Paine Send comments, suggestions, and criticisms to: JFAlward@aol.com. |
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Calling Things by Their Right Name "As long as people believed in the miraculous inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, of course they accepted every page as literally true, and thought that there could not be any contradiction between the different accounts or representations of Scripture. The worst of all such pre-conceived ideas is, that they compel those who hold them to do violence to their own sense of truth. When so-called religious prejudices come into play, people are afraid to call things by their right names, and without knowing it themselves, become guilty of all kinds of evasive and arbitrary practices; for what would be thought quite unjustifiable in any other case is here considered a duty, inasmuch as it is supposed to tend toward the maintenance of faith and the glory of God!" --T.W. Doane, "Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions." |
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Shattering the Sacred Myths |
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By Michael Kalopoulos, XLibris Publishing House, 2003. Perhaps the most interesting book on the Bible I've read yet. Among the many remarkable achievements of this author is his construction of a convincing case that stories of the "divine" plagues and miracles allegedly worked by God on Abraham's behalf were disguised versions of the true stories of scams worked by Abraham and his wife, Sarah. Many more examples of religious fraud abound in this wonderful book, and the last chapter, in which Kalopoulos scientifically analyzes and explains the reasons that these frauds have gone so long largely unexposed, is alone worth the price of the book. Interested readers may
click here to go to Kalopoulos' home page, or
here
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Why I Left
Christianity: A Former Apologist
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The Uncreated Creator "If
everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be
anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that
there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly of the same
nature as the Hindu's view, that the world rested upon an elephant and the
elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when they said, "How about the
tortoise?" the Indian said, "Suppose we change the subject."
The argument is really no better than that. There is no reason why the world
could not have come into being without a cause; nor, on the other hand, is
there any reason why it should not have always existed. There is no reason to
suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have
a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. Therefore,
perhaps, I need not waste any more time upon the argument about the First
Cause." --Bertrand Russell |
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Thomas Paine
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The Origin of the Doctrine of
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"There
is no prophecy in the OT foretelling the coming of Jesus Christ. There is not
one word in the OT referring to him in any way--not one word. The only way to
prove this is to take your Bible, and wherever you find these words; "That
it might be fulfilled" and "which was spoken" turn
to the OT and find what was written, and you will see that it had not the
slightest possible reference to the thing recounted in the NT--not the
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"Reasons to Doubt the Divinity of the
Bible" (Robert Green Ingersoll) |
"Proofs" of God's Existence: http://godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/GodProof.htm
The links below are to various topics on the
website, Religious Tolerance:
Beliefs About the Resurrection
The
Hebrew Scriptures
Stories in the Hebrew
Scriptures
The Christian
Scriptures
How Christians
interpret the Bible
Is the Bible
inerrant?
Were the Bible's
authors inspired by the Holy Spirit?
Bible versions
Tools for
searching the Bible
Downloadable
copies of the Bible and other Christian material
Referring to Copernicus's
theory that the sun was the center of the solar system, Martin Luther
exclaimed, "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy;
but sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and
not the earth. ” (Tischreden,
1743, Vol. 22, page 2260.)
Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities -- Voltaire
But
sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to
every man that
asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: (1 Peter 3:15)
"I contend that we are both atheists, I just believe in one less god than
you do. When you understand why
you dismiss all other possible gods, then you will know why I dismiss
yours." (Stephen F. Roberts)
"The
Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the
human mind degraded
by believing it."--Thomas Paine
(Proverbs 14:15)
(1 Thessalonians 5:21)
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Josephus wrote of
challenges to Roman authority, but not about the one led by Jesus and his
followers:
Prophetic movements: Theudas (Acts 5:36; Josephus's,.Antiquities
of the Jews, 2.259).
Movements of resistance against the Roman occupiers: Judas the Galilean
(Acts 5:37; Josephus: 17.271-2)
Simon (Ant. 17:273-6)
Athronges (Jos., Ant. 17.278-84)
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Check
authenticity of the "Letter" to Roman Senate from Herod Antipas: http://www.bibleprobe.com/antipas.htm:
It's bogus. See Archko Volume fakery articles.
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Α, α: alpha |
Η, η: eta |
Ν, ν: nu |
Τ, τ: tau |
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Β, β: beta, |
Θ, θ: theta |
Ξ, ξ: xi |
Υ, υ: upsilon |
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Γ, γ: gamma |
Ι, ι: iota |
Ο, ο: omicron |
Φ, φ: phi |
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Δ, δ: delta |
Κ, κ: kappa |
Π, π: pi |
Χ, χ: chi |
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Ε, ε: epsilon |
Λ, λ: lambda |
Ρ, ρ: rho |
Ψ, ψ: psi |
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Ζ, ζ: zeta |
Μ, μ: mu |
Σ, σ, s: sigma |
Ω, ω: omega |