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#222563
KommissarKrunch
This guy obviously has a severely warped definition of \"coherent.\"
5/1/2007 8:09:35 PM
#222568
Doctor Whom
coherent, consistent and clear
Never mind texts that are any of those things; how about the Bible?
5/1/2007 8:18:45 PM
#222569
Old Viking
A miilion monkeys with a million typewriters.
5/1/2007 8:20:37 PM
#222578
BurntBush
\"coherent\"?
5/1/2007 8:31:46 PM
#222587
NotMe
Just like the small things that not all gospels mention.
What small things?
Well, all dead people rising when Jesus died is a nice example.
5/1/2007 8:42:45 PM
#222605
John
If you walked into a medical library and found all the books were on medicine, would you think this was caused by divine inspiration?
Without getting into the argument about whether the 66 books are \"coherent\", the 66 books of the Bible were deliberately chosen by men from a much larger body of writing. If you choose only the books that agree with your beliefs and suppress the rest, of course they're going to agree with each other. The ones that disagreed were thrown away or burned. That's called \"editing\", not divinity.
5/1/2007 8:58:12 PM
#222625
Captain Janeway
Sigh. I wish this was a troll, but I know it most likely is not.
5/1/2007 9:11:24 PM
#222626
Bunyip Girl
NotMe
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5/1/2007 8:42:45 PM
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Just like the small things that not all gospels mention.
What small things?
Well, all dead people rising when Jesus died is a nice example.
Is that a fact? Interesting.
5/1/2007 9:11:38 PM
#222629
Matilde
The big number of incoherence would. And the big number of scientifical slopes(even for the time it was written), for example, the speaking snake, or the fact that people live 900 years. The number of contradictions would too.
5/1/2007 9:13:18 PM
#222637
Jenna
Yeah, because the Bible is so coherent and consistent. Lord.
5/1/2007 9:20:27 PM
#222641
Anonymous
coherent, consistent and clear \"story,\"
I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.
5/1/2007 9:22:47 PM
#222644
Brain_In_A_Jar
such a coherent, consistent and clear \"story,\" explanation of God's purpose
Oh, yeah, which is why everybody's still arguing about it and there are numerous conflicting versions. Hell, it's so self contradictory that you can cherry-pick a passage in support or opposition, depending on your personal preference, of any topic you like.
5/1/2007 9:31:13 PM
#222670
Øyvind
His reasons for dealing with man like He did, and free gift of salvation.
Free? Monetarily, perhaps, but last time I checked you had to subscribe to his teachings for him to bother saving you from Hell. Not precisely what I'd call 'free'.
5/1/2007 9:49:28 PM
#222671
Puck
Coherent, consistent and clear?
not.
66 texts were chosen from a field of hundreds. Most of the others were voted heretical by the first Nicene Council, and targeted for destruction because they contravened the totalitarian image the Council wanted to push on the christian peasants.
My prayer of thanks goes to some unknown Coptic scribe[s] who, sometime in the third or fourth century, sequestered some very interesting [and authentic]Christian material from the church censors.
5/1/2007 9:49:46 PM
#222676
Øyvind
His reasons for dealing with man like He did, and free gift of salvation.
Free? Monetarily, perhaps, but last time I checked you had to subscribe to his teachings for him to bother saving you from Hell. Not precisely what I'd call 'free'.
5/1/2007 9:54:02 PM
#222679
Berny
The Bible is probably one of the most heavily edited book in history.
A true, honest and serious study of the Bible would have told you that.
5/1/2007 9:55:57 PM
#222687
punchybird
I do not find the bible a coherent, consistent and clear \"story. And his so called \"free\" gift is anything but.
5/1/2007 10:10:23 PM
#222688
punchybird
I do not find the bible a coherent, consistent and clear \"story. And his so called \"free\" gift is anything but.
5/1/2007 10:10:40 PM
#222703
Osiris
Conherent. No, the Bible is so hopeless confusing that no one can agree on the meaning of every single thing.
Consistant. No. God tells Abhramam to kill his son. Then God gives the Jews the Ten Commandments, one of them being \"Thou Shalt Not Kill.\" Then God commands the Isrealites to go to war time and time again. Much killing ensures. And that's jus the OT.
Clear. No. Mud is clearer.
5/1/2007 10:27:24 PM
#222721
vichycycl
40 men writing 66 books without inspiration
um, isn't the fact that it's divinely inspired the reason they know it's Gawd's word?
5/1/2007 10:47:14 PM
#222742
Lunalelle
You're right.
It isn't coherent.
5/1/2007 10:57:57 PM
#222744
anti-nonsense
And you are right, the Bible is exactly what we would expect if 40 men wrote 66 books over 4,000 years, incoherent, inconsistent nonsense.
5/1/2007 11:00:05 PM
#222757
Firthy2002
Most of the Bible is an edited \"cut and paste\" ripoff of various other stories and myths.
Not very good edits either. *cough*Genesis*cough*
5/1/2007 11:14:30 PM
#222906
Strife767
Coherent, consistent, and clear? How do you explain over a dozen GENERATIONS of difference in Jesus's lineage between two gospels (as one tiny example)? That's a long time, you know.
5/2/2007 1:48:17 AM
#222914
Sandman
I don't know what's funnier, the idea that Tychicus1769 doesn't seem to realize that his use of the world \"virtual\" essentially invalidates his entire statement, or the idea that the Bible is \"coherent, consistent, and clear.\"
5/2/2007 1:56:42 AM
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