Comments on: Piers Morgan Says Flawed Bible Must be Amended

By: Marrow

Marrow — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:32:45 +0000

Whenever someone who thinks they know it all doesn’t understand something, whatever it may be, they say its flawed. Piers humble yourself, then you just might be able to see just how flawed you are and perhaps begin to understand and appreciate the Holy Bible.

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By: jimvj

jimvj — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:40:46 +0000

Hrafnkell Haraldsson: Thanks for a great synopsis of the evolution of the “Bible” in the western tradition. In addition to all the vagaries you describe, there were/are other “Christian” traditions that evolved along separate lines. Like the eastern “orthodox” sects, and the Ethiopian church. They have different definitions of what is canonical.

Most Christians are ignorant of the fact that neither Jesus nor Paul – who were the principal founders of the religion – had any concept of a “Bible”. The concept of scripture was prevalent. But as you point out, it was a very fluid and local concept; it was definitely not a canonical set of texts that were to be taken as a whole.

The Pauline epistles predate the gospels by 20 years and more. But, strangely, Paul never seems concerned about divulging details of Jesus’ earthly life to the converts in the churces he founded. Moreover, Paul never considers his letters to be ranked on a level with the books of Moses or the prophets, etc.

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By: Rho

Rho — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:40:10 +0000

Actually, I don’t think that is Yahweh’s sense of humour so much as it is Loki’s.

Maybe another neolithic faith might just need a reboot, but Hraf already knew that.

youtu.be/G-4uzfK8yjE

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By: robyn ryan

robyn ryan — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:47:34 +0000

The hammer of facts smashes its foes!

Great seed.

The New Testament (the part where Jesus dies for your sins and makes a new covenant with himself – I mean, god) was written long after a historical Jesus died.

It’s sort of like David Barton and Thomas Jefferson – over 200 years between author and subject.

That’s not the problem. These people are trying to defend the idea of the Sacred Word in a visual world. It used to be you could control information because only some people could read, or gain access to books. The Western discovery of the movable type press broke the dominance of the priest.

Now you don’t need to read. You can see, or listen. The interpreters of the ‘gospel’ to the people are out of a job. They pretend they have ‘secret knowledge.’ They rule by fear of hellfire and war. They are obsolete. A hierarchy, and perhaps corporations, are impossible in this current technological phase. Too many people with too much access to information for the supply/demand model to continue.

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By: savageDOG

savageDOG — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:47:03 +0000

from emperor Constantine’s influencing the loving, forgiving Jesus into the WARGOD, Jesus which could defeat any other God, to Rome altering the words in order to keep POWER of Christianity in Rome…all the way to 1976′s New American Bible, altered to reword the biblical legal definition of when/if a fetus is a life… all to the end purpose of political / power control.
a good historical read is “THE 48 LAWS OF POWER”

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