Hypocrites

It seems that some people love to boast about how they love the biblical God (they never use his name) and Jesus but they flip out when their hypocrisy is exposed.

A typical case in point =

[removed by staff] Why are you deleting your God's commandments? Do you want to end up in the lake of fire?

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 (ERV) =
Children Who Refuse to Obey
"18 “A man might have a son who is stubborn and refuses to obey. This son does not obey his father or mother. They punish the son, but he still refuses to listen to them. 19 His father and mother must then take him to the leaders of the town at the town meeting place. 20 They must say to the leaders of the town: ‘Our son is stubborn and refuses to obey. He does not do anything we tell him to do. He eats and he drinks too much.’ 21 Then the men in the town must kill the son with stones. By doing this you will remove this evil from your group. Everyone in Israel will hear about this and be afraid."

Exodus 21:15 (NKJV) =
“And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Jesus said that people had to follow all of the commandments, so what is up with the picking and choosing?

Matthew 7:26-27 (NKJV) =26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

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hunkalove · 61-69, M

I think most people know the Bible is a load of crap even if they can't admit it.

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Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@hunkalove I actually think that the Bible is a beautifully written story. It is very complex. As I've said before, all of the stories in the Old & New Testaments are based on one or more of the real Ten Commandments found in Exodus 34:11-26. The problem is that the typical believer has never bothered to read the story, which is the easiest of all in the Bible. They prefer to get their religion from silly Hollywood movies and ignorant preachers.

It is essential to understand what the real Ten Commandments are otherwise the stories don't make any sense. The stories themselves don't have to make logical sense because they are merely mnemonic devices intended to quiz the listener, or the reader, about which of the real Ten Commandments the story is illustrating. Review them and read any story and you should be able to identify the Commandment. Some stories show the benefit of obeying while others show the consequences for disobeying. The Bible is all about complete obedience and total loyalty. It does not teach morality.

People think that the Bible is an ancient book but it was only written as a single book in the late 680s-early 690s by a committee of story tellers, writers, and artists based in England who produced three master copies, each weighing 75 pounds, written in Latin. One copy still exists. There is no legitimate copy of a Bible on this planet that predates that.

Christianity as a religion existed from about 40 A.D. It was mostly verbal, with a few scattered manuscripts in various locations as the Apostles moved around the area. But there was NO Bible of any kind.

In the early 7th Century the Arabs got the idea that they needed a God of their own to compete with the heathens, the Christians, and the Jews. Uthman got a committee together around 640 A.D. and it produced the Koran. Since the Christians didn't have a single book they needed one to counter the Islamic version so they got busy planning theirs. They even raised about 2,000 cattle for the vellum for their books.

The writers did an excellent job, flowing the story from beginning to end. They also included numerous clues indicating that it was all just an elaborate hoax. Around 1881 a committee revised the Bible and deleted the 14 books of the Apocrypha, which had been part of almost every Bible version since the 680s. And, around 1630 they changed the names of all of the major characters to make them more user-friendly. That is when the Jesus character became known as Jesus. It's an alias.

The more secular books do contain some timeless advice that could benefit people if they bothered to read it. For instance, Proverbs 1:8-19 is probably the best moral advice a person could ever teach a child. It is universal and timeless.