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historyintheworks:

cheesynico:

historyintheworks:

I wonder if creationists know that there are two stories of creation in Genesis and that they completely contradict each other. From the get go, that’s not a good start, even for a holy book

I wonder if this dude knows that that is false.

In Genesis 1, God makes the Earth in 6 days, first creating light, then the sky, then the oceans, then land and plants, then the sun and the moon, then all other animals, and finally man and woman in his likeness. (Genesis 1:25-27).

In Genesis 2, God creates man before creating plants and animals and all other living things.  Then he notices Adam needs “a helper” and creates woman out of his rib.  (Genesis 2:18-22)

So it might seem like a small difference, but it’s pretty significant in the biblical schema of where man and woman fit into the world.  In the first account, they’re equal creations; in the second, God clearly shows preference for man.  In the first account, they are the last of his creations to rule over all other living things; in the second, animals are created to provide man (and not woman) with a helper.

Bible’d

But, but, but, these guys told me that the bible was the most historically accurate document ever in the history of all history ever!!!

atheismfuckyeah:

A dull-looking chart projected on the wall of a university office in Jerusalem displayed a revelation that would startle many readers of the Old Testament: The sacred text that people revered in the past was not the same one we study today.

An ancient version of one book has an extra phrase. Another appears to have been revised to retroactively insert a prophecy after the events happened.

Scholars in this out-of-the-way corner of the Hebrew University campus have been quietly at work for 53 years on one of the most ambitious projects attempted in biblical studies — publishing the authoritative edition of the Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Bible, and tracking every single evolution of the text over centuries and millennia.

And it has evolved, despite deeply held beliefs to the contrary.

For many Jews and Christians, religion dictates that the words of the Bible in the original Hebrew are divine, unaltered and unalterable.

For Orthodox Jews, the accuracy is considered so inviolable that if a synagogue’s Torah scroll is found to have a minute error in a single letter, the entire scroll is unusable.

But the ongoing work of the academic detectives of the Bible Project, as their undertaking is known, shows that this text at the root of Judaism, Christianity and Islam was somewhat fluid for long periods of its history, and that its transmission through the ages was messier and more human than most of us imagine.

Continue reading at the link above. 

Seems like a futile effort to me, and also a bit self serving. Hrm. 

~Mooglets

While the effort may seem futile, I love stuff like this for a couple of reasons, one, the historical anthropological aspect of it, the other because of jack asses like that anaon a while back who kept calling me “sir” who was talking about prophecies in the bible proving god who refused to accept the Bible had been revised over the years.

Knowledge is ammunition in the war against ignorance.