yorkshire 151 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 Religion seems to be the flavour of the moment , I was just wondering how many have read it (bible) ? I read it a few years ago and I'm by no means religious nor did it make me . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abarrett 462 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 I read it just out of curiosity a few years ago I couldn't make head nor tail of it if I'm honest The bible has been in our family for ever it's a great big thing About 2 foot square and about 8 inch thick with a thick black leather cover My first memory of it was standing on it to reach the toilet lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paulus 26 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 we were given them at school and again later on by the gideon`s Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 26,109 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 I read it just out of curiosity a few years ago I couldn't make head nor tail of it if I'm honest The bible has been in our family for ever it's a great big thing About 2 foot square and about 8 inch thick with a thick black leather cover My first memory of it was standing on it to reach the toilet lol That last line is just asking for a punch line,,,lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Malt 379 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 I've read it, or a large part of it. Gets boring when you read the bits about who begat who! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hareydave 1,214 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 you trying to hi jack brian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robin hood 109 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 Not another,one preachers enough Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brigzy 1,298 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 I've read it many times, simply to try and make sense of it ! There are more anomalies than I can quote, but heres a few; Why spend paragraphs on Josephs genealogy when he isn't Jesus's father, just so they can show a link to David and Soloman ? Why do the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John disagree on so many tennents that are so fundemental to christian dogma ? If any one can shed any light on Revelations, please help me, as, as far as I can see, even christian theologians have profoundly differing interpretations. Why did the vengefull, hatefull god of the Old Testament, (remember him tormenting good men like Job, or Lot), who demanded an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; suddenly, in the New Testament, become the god of love who said we should turn the other cheek ? The bible is a collection of writings that have been cherry picked for millenia, some were accepted by the "powers that be" , others were considered apochraphal and suppressed. So the bible you read today, isn't the bible that was wrote down in the beginning. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
talt 878 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 My mum was very religious so i had to read it but i couldnt make head nor arse of it if i am honest and i always thought it was a load of bollocks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbriar 8,569 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 I went to Sunday School as a lad - but only because you had to go to be in the Boy's Brigade ! Now I'm old enough decide for myself, I'm an atheist - I believe that God does not exist, therefore the Bible is irrelevant to me.................. I'm sure BigBri, and others, will tell me I'll burn in Hell, but I'll take my chances. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lukey 1,621 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 Think fraz might have read it no sure though you'll need to ask him 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brigzy 1,298 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 I went to Sunday School as a lad - but only because you had to go to be in the Boy's Brigade ! Now I'm old enough decide for myself, I'm an atheist - I believe that God does not exist, therefore the Bible is irrelevant to me.................. I'm sure BigBri, and others, will tell me I'll burn in Hell, but I'll take my chances. I was in the "Church Lads Brigade", and remember sunday school, but also the bullying priests, but luckily got out of it before to much damage was done, to my mind, not my body,by the way ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbriar 8,569 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 I went to Sunday School as a lad - but only because you had to go to be in the Boy's Brigade ! Now I'm old enough decide for myself, I'm an atheist - I believe that God does not exist, therefore the Bible is irrelevant to me.................. I'm sure BigBri, and others, will tell me I'll burn in Hell, but I'll take my chances. I was in the "Church Lads Brigade", and remember sunday school, but also the bullying priests, but luckily got out of it before to much damage was done, to my mind, not my body,by the way ! We had a lay preacher, rather than a 'proper' priest - so, you didn't have that Chinese priest Rev. Po Kum Yung, then ? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dare 1,103 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 Went to a catholic primary school so know most of the stories and that's all it is to me, made up stories. A way of controlling people. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
neil cooney 10,416 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 I was going to read it until someone told me the main character dies in the end. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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