Comments on: The Bible has some good stuff http://satanwrotethebible.com/2008/01/14/the-bible-has-some-good-stuff/ Leave your leap of faith behind and use your God-given mind. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:03:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kat http://satanwrotethebible.com/2008/01/14/the-bible-has-some-good-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Kat Fri, 16 May 2008 23:27:56 +0000 http://satanwrotethebible.com/2008/01/14/the-bible-has-some-good-stuff/#comment-19 Most of the good stuff found in the bible, especially attributed to Jesus was nothing new or original. Much of his doctrine was spoken hundreds of years earlier by Buddha, Plato, and various other ancient sources. I guess back then no one could have imagined a thing like computers where all the knowledge in the world is now at our fingertips. Today, no one would think of posting another's work on the computer as their own. It would be just a matter of time before it was brought to light. We can now read who said what and when they said it. The bible writers used whatever means they needed and apparently they used the same stories over and over changing details and names along the way. Other nations used many of the same stories only in their versions, they were the victors and their gods were the Most High God. Most of the good stuff found in the bible, especially attributed to Jesus was nothing new or original. Much of his doctrine was spoken hundreds of years earlier by Buddha, Plato, and various other ancient sources. I guess back then no one could have imagined a thing like computers where all the knowledge in the world is now at our fingertips. Today, no one would think of posting another’s work on the computer as their own. It would be just a matter of time before it was brought to light. We can now read who said what and when they said it. The bible writers used whatever means they needed and apparently they used the same stories over and over changing details and names along the way. Other nations used many of the same stories only in their versions, they were the victors and their gods were the Most High God.

]]> By: admin http://satanwrotethebible.com/2008/01/14/the-bible-has-some-good-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-11 admin Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:39:23 +0000 http://satanwrotethebible.com/2008/01/14/the-bible-has-some-good-stuff/#comment-11 This reminds me of one of my favorite articles ever to appear in Harper's Magazine, <a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/Jesus-Without-Miracles1dec05.htm" rel="nofollow">Jesus without the Miracles</a>, by Erik Reese: <blockquote>Something similar was no doubt on the mind of another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, when he took a pair of scissors to the King James Bible two hundred years ago. Jefferson cut out the virgin birth, all the miracles—including the most important one, the Resurrection—then pasted together what was left and called it The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth (fifteen years later, in retirement at Monticello, he expanded the text, added French, Latin, and Greek translations, and called it The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth). In an 1819 letter to William Short, Jefferson recollected that the cut-and-paste job was the work of two or three nights only, at Washington, after getting through the evening task of reading the letters and papers of the day." Jefferson mentioned The Philosophy of Jesus in a few other personal letters, but for the most part he kept the whole matter private, probably guessing that the established Church would see the compilation as one more example of his "atheism."</blockquote> This reminds me of one of my favorite articles ever to appear in Harper’s Magazine, Jesus without the Miracles, by Erik Reese:

Something similar was no doubt on the mind of another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, when he took a pair of scissors to the King James Bible two hundred years ago. Jefferson cut out the virgin birth, all the miracles—including the most important one, the Resurrection—then pasted together what was left and called it The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth (fifteen years later, in retirement at Monticello, he expanded the text, added French, Latin, and Greek translations, and called it The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth). In an 1819 letter to William Short, Jefferson recollected that the cut-and-paste job was the work of two or three nights only, at Washington, after getting through the evening task of reading the letters and papers of the day.” Jefferson mentioned The Philosophy of Jesus in a few other personal letters, but for the most part he kept the whole matter private, probably guessing that the established Church would see the compilation as one more example of his “atheism.”

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