There's no need to run to ancient texts to try to discover why "god" would send a devastating earthquake, and tsunami, to the nation of Japan, and the resulting death toll, destruction, and nuclear disaster. It happened naturally. There was no "sin" that "god" was trying to punish.

In John 1:1, it reads:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (KJV)

A strange passage. Here, the Word, that is, Jesus, is claiming to be his own father. 

The bible defies the imagination.

Why don't you post your real name on this site? This is posed to the ones who don't, of course. Just curious

An activity that's very popular with evangelicals is called "reading through the bible in a year". It is exactly as described: using a furnished checklist of roughly a few chapters a day, the evangelical reads their allotted scripture passages each day, until they have read through the bible in a year's time. There are also web sites and computer programs that will help you keep track of your progress as well. The motive behind this is to get christians to read their bibles completely…

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