
Biblical Nonsense: A Review Of The Bible For Doubting Christians


This movement has two primary problems: (1) it begins with an assertion, not explicit in the Bible itself, that the Bible must be understood as literally true-as science,natural history, or history; and (2) it ignores evidence within the Bible that biblical texts…
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Marc Zvi Brettler PhD • How to Read the Bible
And all this over something that never happened, except in the imaginations of a writer, except in the pages of a fiction. No serpent. No tree of the knowledge of good and evil. No innocently naked man and woman. Just a story. A myth that needs interpreting but should never be read literally. But that’s precisely how these Christian thinkers read i
... See moreRichard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
material sacrifices, physical temples, and formal priests. Such things were the building blocks of religion in the first century, and if you showed up to a Christian gathering in Ephesus or Philippi, you wouldn’t find any of these things. Isn’t that weird?