How many of you agree that the bible is nonsensical garbage?
613971
Nothing from the bible has been proven except obvious things (the sun rose that morning lol). There's much better explanations for nature and the workings of the universe than the bible has ever given. EVIDENCE and FACTS point towards things VERY different than those written in the bible. It's vastly outdated and filled with lies and things we should long have forgotten.
682487
I walk in the faith that the Bible is a load of codswallup. Especially concerning the parlor tricks of the New Testiment. 1Peter 2-24 included.\n\n-SD-
1035888
False. The Bible is a masterpiece of ancient literature with some good advice and wisdom. Your brain is the owner's manual should you choose to let it be.
497659
Yes.  The Bible is an amazing book.  Those who are wise will read it and try to understand it.  The fool simply sits back and says "it all a myth"...
358022
The bible doesn't have ANY answers.  It's all a huge hoax.  If you can't figure out what to do or not do in life you're an idiot and a book written by some dead guys isn't going to help.
1018802
the bible is just plagiarized myths from older myths
1163271
your first rule of reading the bible you need to accept that it does not make sense and it is full of contradictions\nit is only a book of fairy tales
1067838
You do realize that the bible is a work of fiction, don't you?
1118887
This is the LAST age.\n\nwoooooooo hoooooooooooooooooo\n\nIt only proves The bible RIGHT !!!!!!!!!\n\nyippppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee\n\n\nGET  R  DONE*
273379
Remember, GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS.\nNot that I actually believe that load of garbage, but I'm getting it shoved down my throat constantly on this site.
994244
The Bible is not the silver bullet, of course. I do believe in God and in Jesus's ressurection, however, there are parts of the Bible that sound like pure nonsense to me while other parts contain great, true wisdoms everyone should live by.
742993
I think that this is the biggest problem with Christianity.  If you take the whole bible literally, than you aren’t making any logical sense, but it you take parts of it metaphorically than you have to pick and chose which parts to take seriously.\n\nIt’s all pretty self-serving if you ask me.
1046399
Wow, this is an easy question. I think you know the answer already, but basically this is simple combination of ignorance, brainwashed mindsets, and fear.\n\nThrough these qualities they foolishly think the bible is the literal word of god, so they just blindly follow that no matter how absurd out-dated their reasoning is.\n\nhere is a great list of absurdities listed in the bible:\nhttp://skepticsannotatedbible.com/abs/long.htm
537602
it is a fake.  i'm christian and even i don't believe this junk of the remains of the first humans in our world
1121408
A few weeks ago was it more coherent?\n\nI think that this is the only way to accept the Bible:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief
819416
I'm agnostic, but here's the deal: of course the Bible is metaphor. Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, parting of Red Sea, Sodom & Gomorrah, Virgin Birth, Lazarus rasied from the Dead, etc. But we have to remember that those stories were all told by a group of semi-nomadic, largely illiterate people living 2000 years ago. They were simply using metaphor and allegor and symbolism to convey as best they could their understanding of God. So yes, they ARE a bunch of stories, if you want to over-simplify like that, but the big question is: what compelled them to go to such lengths to create such myths? And why would Jesus' disciples risk death--and incur death--if they thought he was a fake? After his death they could have simply disbanded, yet they continued on. To me--the reasons for the stories are more important than the literal accuracy. To read the Bible like a history book is to totallt miss the point!
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The bible is 99% pure, however there still exist copyist errors which you most definitely have pointed out.  The first is a numbering copyist error and the second, one of the daughters is actually Merab.  However the christian faith does not rest on tiny pieces of data like these examples.  All of the questionable material of the bible has absolutely no impact on the doctrine of Christianity--they are all very minute details such as the ones you have pointed out.  The other 'supposed' contradictions out there commit several logical fallacies such as quoting out of context and juxtaposition, and do not look at hebrew or greek colloquialisms