I have a question about my Bible...?

Question

I don't need it anymore since I have the Da Vince Code. Is there a place I can recycle it. It's like 1200 pages and I'd hate to waste all the paper.

Answer 1

Hell yeah, don't waste the paper.

You know what you could do? Give it to a starving person on the street, tell him or her it will nourish his/her soul, and purify him/her. I have seen someone do that. Almost made me puke to see how cruel humanity is. Well, to see it once more.

You know what? You converted me, Sanstheism. Right after I finish reading Dracula, by Bram Stocker (which, by the way, I started reading in April... haven't had that much time on my hands, either), I'm reading the Da Vinci Code.

But... do you think I can be of three beliefs at the same time? Can I manage to be a Da Vinci Code-ist, all the while staying an atheist Satanist?

Answer 2

its a myth...lol

While we have none of the autographs of the Bible, the early manuscripts we do have have and that are known to be genuine, by the most conservative estimates, have 200,000 differences between the wording in them, and while many are not meaningful, some completely change the doctrine of the church. (Ehrman, Bart, Ph.D.; Misquoting Jesus: The story behind who changed the Bible and Why; Harper Collins, 2006 -- p. 89). less conservative estimates range up to about 400,000 -- and there are programmers now endeavoring to write a program that will be able to count the exact number of variances.

And that's only the start of the difficulties for the Bible. If you only use the Textus Receptus (Received Text) as it is printed in modern Bibles then you are looking at enormous problems anyway -- in fact insurmountable ones. The World does not have corners (Isaiah 11:12), nor does it sit on pillars (I Samuel 2:8), nor water (Psalms 24:1-2). God did not establish a solid dome over the earth (that's what firmament literally means) and he does not have a palace on top of it from which angels can come and go up Jacob's ladder -- which might be reached by the tower of babel -- and where he keeps "treasuries" of hail and snow (Job 38: 22-23). For the sake of all that is decent, you can't even harmonize the 1st and 2nd chapters of Genesis with each other, say nothing of being able to defend the Biblical creation as scientifically factual. That's no surprise though, as the Bible tells us that beetles have four legs (Leviticus 11: 21-23) and that rabbits chew their cuds (Deuteronomy 14:7). It says that pi is 3, not 3.14 (I Kings 7:23 and 2 Chronicles 4:2) and that the mustard seed is the smallest seed in the world and grows into a tree [neither of which are true] (Matthew 13: 31-32). It is hardly a font of rational thought or scientific accuracy. Furthermore these errors only scratch the surface. Try harmonizing accounts in Joshua and the telling of the same tales in timeline in Judges sometime. If you can you are more proficient than any theologian I've ever met, and I've met a few.

Late bronze age men created the OT and early iron age ones the NT. It is not surprising therefore that God cannot lead Israel to defeat Iron chariots after promising he would (Judges 1:19), and it is not surprising that the flight of Israel from the god Chemosh, after the king of a city the Jews were beseiging and that God had promised them they would overthrow The King of the city offered his own son to Chemosh as a human sacrifice, resulting in Chemosh driving the Israelites away (2 Kings 3: 19-27) -- further it is not surprising that no punishment is mentioned -- the Israelites were still sacrificing their own children, as is evidenced in several places, but most graphically in Judges 11:30-39

The long and short of it is, the Bible is a mythic book, written by bronze and iron age men who were recording primarily oral legends in written form. In any realistic sense it is drivel. You can see, just in the passages I noted above from 2 Kings -- the last vestiges of polytheism fading away. Chemosh was supposed to get power from human sacrifice, just as Jehovah did -- and that power allowed him to turn the table against Israel, despite the fact that God was with Israel.

Read the verses, read the context -- to all the things I've suggested, calm your breathing and thinking and ask yourself if this is really the God of the Universe you are reading about -- or a tribal deity, which has now evolved into the one we worship. I think you will find biblegod sadly lacking -- something the liturgical churches have been saying for hundreds of years. If you find yourself unwilling to even look -- ask yourself why? Are you willing to sacrifice the truth, in order to maintain a comfortable myth for yourself?

And if you want a chuckle, read the second, and theoretically final version of the ten commandments. They are in Exodus 34: 10-26. That is the covenant Yahweh actually made with Israel. No seething here.

Seriously, you are feeling conflicted because you have been told things that are not true -- the biggest one being that the Bible is the Word of God. The Bible is a bronze age book written by bronze age men -- except for some parts of the NT that were written by early Iron age men. It is not divine, and what is says about human sexuality is greatly dependent on the sexual morales of a single culture in the 1st to 4th century CE -- 1st to 4th century I say because the root copies that we have are from the 1st to 4th centuries. Anything older may well have been -- as we can see from Dr. Ehrman's work -- changed.

Have a nice day.

Answer 3

The Bible is God's Word.It is our Creators instruction manuel for us.(2Tim3:16)
The De Vince Code is a man made story if you like.Imperfect men just like us.Why on earth would you compare and swap The Bible for something so meaningless?

Answer 4

The 1200 pages has been a waste for you since you owned it. Why worry about it now?

Answer 5

I wish you could recycle them... I mean, they have so many pages. I wonder how many trees died to outfit them. But, Christians say that you have to either bury it or burn it. Oh well. Maybe you could sell it to a used bookstore and get some pocket change instead.

Answer 6

Send it to me, I havent stayed in a hotel in a while and I'm running out of Gideon's toilet paper.

Answer 7

I must say, I have never heard that one before. If I could give you 10pts for originality, I would. BTW, ya better hold on the the Bible, your gonna need it. :)

Answer 8

your city should have a recycling plant atleast nearby

Answer 9

Which one do think will get an autograph.

Answer 10

That's a pretty weak flame.
You can do better.