Which is more believable Thomas the tank engine or the bible?
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Thomas the Tank Engine.\n\nI've seen a tank engine. A tank engine has "moved" me. I've touched a tank engine.\n\nNone of which I could attribute to the characters in the bible.\n\nAnd for the person who answered that there is archaeological evidence in the bible. Yeah, right -\n\n"And Lo! Jesus did walk through Galilee and then got eaten by a T-Rex." 1:13 Book of Nutters
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The entire bible?  No.  In fact, there is proof that parts of the bible are inaccurate (like Genesis), and there is proof that parts of the bible really happened (we know many hisotrical leaders and occurances actually happened).\n\n- We've found Herod's palace, and it implies he was as carefree as the bible portrays him as.  One point for bible\n\n- We've found egyptian records that range from acheivements to embarassments.  They were quite meticulous at their historical records...yet no mention of Moses, losing their slaves, losing their first borns, plagues, etc.  One point against.\n\n- We've found evidence of a mass flood, one point for\n\n- It would be impossible for all species alive today to fit on the boat, not to mention carry enough food, deal with waste, etc.  One point against.\n\nSo you see, the bible is much like Greek or Egyptian mythology.  It is what was thought to have been known at the time...some of it was correct, some based on false rumor.
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Peter Pan or Michael Jackson
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the one where he gets run over by Thomas the Tank Engine
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No, it's a horrible book. It's definitely a bad book to get your morals from, it's not truth, it's horribly written fiction... the only reason to read the Bible is if you're looking to become an atheist!
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I agree...anything that might show the world that the Bible is true and putting it to a movie might bring the stories to life and make it more true than just reading about it. Any movie that can bring the whole family for a night out can be the best thing for today's busy and broken families. I hope it does good at the box office too.
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the bible is about philosophy and religion  and a history of a people.    It is not a science text book. it does not use empirical methods, nor does it require them to be used.  If  you believe in the Bible  it's because of your faith not your reason. \nA basic idea in science is that if light travels at  186 000 miles per second today on earth  it  also does in the rest of the universe both in the past and in the future and if oxygen has 8 electrons on earth then it also has them on Saturn.. These and many others are the building blocks for a sane reasonable universe.\nthose  who try to conform  the universe to biblical teaching  must out of sheer necessity  create a  crazy world  where a day isn't t really a day and a year isn't really a year and all of your reliable baselines are skewed.. it becomes lunacy.\nThe war is over ,Galileo Copernicus and Newton were right \nThe biblical version of the universe is wrong -give up
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yes but my views have changed. The bible is an amazing story that offers insights into the spiritual development of man. I'm not a christian but i believe there are many great lessons to be learned from this book. The biggest hoaxes of all time is 1)God is a man in the sky that favors christians and sends you to hell if you don't get your weekly quota of church in.2) Jesus was a whiteman who was the son of god. 3) you need to go to church and pray to worship god. \nGod is individual and god is everything. The good and the bad make god just as the teacher and the taught make up the teaching.
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The Bible is a mythological tale. Do you actually believe that the red seas parted or that stone became bread? Perhaps there was a saint and he had many followers, Also perhaps some of the incidents described did happen, but the truth has been exxagerated to become a description of a super-human. And therefore, take the Bible, or for that matter most of the Holy Books with a pinch of salt. It is meant to evoke faith and thankfulness that there is a superpower above us who can do things that we can't(simply translated to hope!) Again, many versions of The Bible exist. Popular ones do not refer to Mary or his descendents.
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1. I love the website linked! It has every verse in the King James Bible listed directly and exactly as it is and reveals it for what it is. \n\nBibleGod killed babies, commited mass genocide and more and is all clearly there! \n\n2. The answer is no. There is some literature that is equally cruel and violent, but not anywhere close to having the vast amount of it as the bible does. \n\nBTW, I found a link to this great video clip on that site!\nhttp://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/06/bible-is-bullshit.html\n\nThanks abunch!
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It's entirely up to you. \nThere is no absolute proof; therefore, whether the bible is true or false is merely an opinion. \n\nI, however, believe it is mainly fiction. If you compare Christianity to other religions, such as Buddhism, although many Christians are too close-minded to do this, you will see broad comparisons between the messages trying to be conveyed. Buddhism provides guidelines to live by, ways to live in self-actualization. The bible does the same in a different method. The ideas in the bible are hidden; they are dressed in a story as though it's needed to be interesting to be convincable. \n\nI personally take most books in the bible as a story with hidden symbolism. Many people take these stories more seriously; they refer to them as though they were there and that there is no other way. \n\nAs long as you are open to other's beliefs it doesn't matter whether you think the bible is a lie or it is the word of god. Just respect that, although some are placed in a seperate religion stereotype, we are all human and our beliefs are our individuality.
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I'm an ordained evangelical minister and see no problem with either the movie or the book. The problem is that Dan Brown has stated that the book and movie are fictional, but Christians say it's misleading--but their problem is that they are trying to pick apart DVC without going to the Bible to find out what is true in DVC and what isn't. If they'd just stick with the Bible as their source for truth and read it and absorb it, and keep in mind that DVC is fiction, then it's absolutely no problem. I just wonder how many Christians are seeing the movie or reading the book without opening their Bibles. :-(
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I agree. The Bible has a lot of wisdom, a lot of true stories, a lot of symbolic stories, and errors.
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i am agnostic... i beleive the bible is a compilation of myth and legend. kind of like a really good tall tale. i have been known to compare jesus to paul bunyun... yeah their was a big axe wielding lumberer named paul bunyun but did he really have a blue ox... hell no.. sure jesus was a good dude, but did he really do any miracles... i kinda doubt it.
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it's a work of fiction. if you are interested in Mary and the holy grail find a bible
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The turtle story is not from the Christian bible.  It is a mythology, imaginary\n\nIroquois Myth http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_12.html\n\nHuron Story \nhttp://www.planetozkids.com/oban/bigturtl.htm\n\netc.\n\ngreg
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This is all just a story of fiction, so believe whatever you want to.  The bible has been written, re-written, translated from one language and back again so manty times, it's even more of a work of whoever was writing it and whatever was believed at the time than anything to be taken for "truth".