The Bible?, historical acocunt or a political agenda Options

[sadolakced acid]

we all know this book. we've at least seen it in hotel rooms. this is the book with tissue-thin pages, the book that was first printed. this is a book that people rally to.

and it is a political agenda.

in the early years of christianity, there were many, many sects that called themselves chistian. one sect decided they were the real christians, and condemned the rest as false sects.

this sect evolved into the church. In order to make all other sects wrong, they edited the bible. they threw out the parts they didn't like, added parts they liked. The bible is a manual for how to live your life- so, why not add in a bit about who you should give money to?

over the years, the bible evolved as it's editors saw fit. It was changed, in the case of the king james bible, to help conquer ireland.

It was rewritten to support values the political leaders wanted supported.

want a reason to allow slavery? put in a bit about cain and able.

want to be able to get precious farmlands in the middle east? put in a bit about that being the holy land.

the bible, it seems, is nothing more than a written propoganda tool; too far edited from it's original text to be considered anything more than a pamplet that's designed, not to ensure truth of history, and that all sides are protrayed, but to get the godless heathens to convert to christianity.


now; you can either flame me and tell me how i couldn't understand, and cite bible quotes and give me something to laugh at,
or you can prove me wrong with a bit of rational debate.

i'd enjoy it emmensly more if you'd pick the first one, although the second is nice.

have a nice day!

[pink_p0lo]

big enough to hold two of every kind of animal.

i read the thread, and i didnt really see anything that was relevant to my post..

you askedme to read touch my monkey's post in context. but that was after my first post. and i said, and you quoted it, that other people had already discussed it in john 3:16

[XoJennaoX]

although, i have heard that they think they found noah's ark and that at the bottom of the red sea, where moses led the slaves to freedom, they have found bones and parts of chariots from when the soldies chasing them were swept away.

I have also heard they found the first born son of King Rameses (according to the bible he was killed by God during the last of the ten plagues noted in Exodus). The autopsy report showed he was killed by a blow to the head, obviously from a weapon that was used by man. This is only what I've "heard". Even-so i doubt finding bones in the red sea proves anything in your case, since Egyptain hieroglyphics also claim the fact that there was indeed a battle during that period in time, but a little less "holy" than the bible claims it was.