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Permalink Reply by Jake LaFort on April 23, 2017 at 12:06am

Your use of Hebrew seems to belie something more than your thoughts on the bible. 

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Permalink Reply by Gregg RThomas on April 23, 2017 at 3:40am

Huh???

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Permalink Reply by Strega on April 23, 2017 at 8:58am

No- probably because you're on an atheist site.

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Permalink Reply by Davis Goodman on April 23, 2017 at 10:49am

The first five books of the Bible (The Hebrew Bible or "Pentateuch") beat the New Testament in terms of Bizarreness, cruelty, degradation of human life, lack of empathy and understanding human frailty, conflicting laws and claims, impossible fantasy, brutality, violence, sexism, racism, genocide, glorification of suffering, homophobia and a general sense of macabre malaise

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Permalink Reply by Gregg RThomas on April 26, 2017 at 9:42pm

"The first five books of the Bible (The Hebrew Bible or "Pentateuch") beat the New Testament in terms of Bizarreness, cruelty, degradation of human life, lack of empathy and understanding human frailty, conflicting laws and claims, impossible fantasy, brutality, violence, sexism, racism, genocide, glorification of suffering, homophobia and a general sense of macabre malaise"

That sounds like a Quentin Tarantino script.  I wonder when the film is coming out? :)

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Permalink Reply by Physeter on April 27, 2017 at 9:41am

Meanwhile, the prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.) which represent later Hebrew thought and later development of the Jewish religion, basically say the opposite of those first five books. Instead of listing hundreds of laws which people must follow under penalty of death, the God character in the prophets literally says he doesn't want sacrifices, he doesn't want rituals; he wants justice to flow like a river, and righteousness like a never-ending stream. There's good and bad all throughout the Bible, including the old testament books.

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Permalink Reply by TJ on April 23, 2017 at 11:28am

I suppose the ones who do are members of Abrahamic faiths, in that without the initial/Hebrew part, the Christian new testament and the Islamic Koran, etc, have no foundation.

If you add up all the faiths that therefore include that BS, the answer is most people on earth believe that BS.

After that, its merely a question of degree, in that most believe some parts, and, not others.

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Permalink Reply by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on April 23, 2017 at 2:30pm

What do you consider to be the main differences between it and the Christian version that might make it any more believable?. Even the Quran is derived from it.

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