Genesis contains two accounts of
creation. The first includes chapter 1 and the first three verses
of chapter 2; the second account
comprises the remainder of chapter 2. They contradict each other.
In the first, trees are created before man. In one, man and woman
are made at the same time; in the other, woman is an afterthought.
The break in the story between verses three and four of the second
chapter is obvious.
For eighteen contradictions in the two
accounts of creation, see "The Bible." The aim of the first is
to make the Sabbath a holy day; of the
second, to establish the doctrines of the Fall of Man and the
Subjection of Woman. Sabbath observance
is as superstitious as observance of Friday the thirteenth. The
Sabbath and the word "Sabbath" were borrowed from the
Babylonians.
That the Fall of Man is fiction is
tacitly taught in nearly every American high school by teaching
Evolution.
Civilizations rose
and fell before the Jews ever heard of the Creation myth given in
Genesis.
"Evolutionist" Christian, did man fall
before or after becoming an ape? Also, with which man does the
Bible genealogy going back to Adam become fictitious? Evolution
ousts the Bible from the schools.
Two contradictory reports of the Flood
are intermingled in Chs. 6, 7, and 8 of Genesis. According to
one (7:2), clean beasts
went into the Ark by sevens; the other, by twos
(7:8-9).
Flooding the world to destroy men is
like burning a barn to kill rats; and the third, Deut. 5. they
are contradictory.
A ship 150yds. long, 25
wide, and 15 high
(Gen.6:15) holds pairs, or sevens,
fourteen, of every living
thing. The Ark has three stories, but
only one 27 in. window for ventilation (16). The Black Hole of
Calcutta was nothing compared to the
Ark. The water was five and one-half miles high over the earth.
Gen.7:20.Where did it go ? Eight
persons handled the world's greatest menagerie. The carnivorous
animals required tons of flesh daily.
The Flood story was copied from an old Babylonian
myth.
Bishop Colenso, translating the
Bible for savages, was jolted out of Orthodoxy by the honest
questions of his native assistant. This
limerick immortalizes the event:
"
To the heretic Bishop of Natal,
Whose doubts of the Deluge were
fatal,
Said
an Infidel Zulu,
"Do you believe that, you fool, you ?'
' No, I don't, said the Bishop of Natal."
Confess, O Priests, the Flood is
fiction.
The first Ten Commandments is in
Ex.20; the second, Ex 34; and the
third, Deut.5. They are contradictory.
As a moral code, the Commandments are
defective. The first four have no moral value. The first three
deal with relations to God, not Man.
The Bible God commanded the breaking of all the commandments,
except those involving himself. He gave
orders to steal (Ex. 3:21-2), kill (Ex.
32:27), commit adultery (Hosea 1:2), and incited the Jews to
appropriate the property of their neighbors (Deut.
20:10-17).
The first commandment reflects upon God as
conceited; the second prohibits the arts of painting, sculpture,
and photography; the third says that God is jealous (jealousy is a
vice) and that he visits the iniquity of the fathers upon children
- a manifest injustice; the fourth, establishing the Sabbath,
because God rested on the seventh day (
first Ten Commandments) or because "he delivered his people on that
day" ( the third Ten Commandments), is
broken by all but a few Jews; the fifth gives a selfish and false
reason for honoring parents; and the
tenth classes wives with asses and other chattels, and recognizes
slavery. The Hebrew word translated "servant" means
"slave."
The Ten Commandments do not restrain
wife,child,and slave beaters, religious persecutors, liars ( except
in court ), or
tyrants.
The Decalogue needs
debunking.
(Modernists, please
note)
What did Judas do with the thirty
pieces of silver? Returned them to the chief priest (Matt. 27:3
-5). Bought a field with them (Acts 1: 18).
For more than five hundred contradictions in the four gospels, see "The
Christ" by Remsberg and also "the Bible Handbook" published by the
American Atheist Press, Austin, Texas. Address is available from
the Internet. Yahoo – “American Atheist
Press”
If four witnesses in court contradicted each
other as the evangelists do, they would be prosecuted
for
perjury, and
convicted.
Thomas Jefferson found in the gospel history of Jesus "a groundwork
of vulgar ignorance, of things
impossible, of
superstitions, fanaticisms, and fabrications," (Mere., Cot., &
Misc., ed. by T.J. Randolph, vol. 4, p. 325).
Christianity evolved from paganism.
Christmas is a Pagan festival, celebrating the sun's return
Northward.
Easter is of Pagan
origin. Its movable date disproves its commemorating the
resurrection of anyone.
The Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5,6,7)
consists largely of romantic nonsense. Its good doctrines were not
original and were copied
and modified from the Buddhist
Scripture called the Dharpamada.. Non-resistance to evil (5:39-42),
improvidence (6: 19-34) and dependence on prayer (6:6) are
antisocial. Jesus-thinking ignores reality. It doesn't work. This
sermon is a literary composition. It was never
preached.
(Sunday School
Teachers, please note)
"Of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it" (Gen. 2: 17).
"The wisdom of this world is foolishness
with God." (1 Cor. 3:19)
"We are fools for Christ's sake." (1 Cor.
4:10)
"Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy." (Col. 2:8)
"Not many wise men . . . not many noble are
called." (1 Cor. 1:26)
Martin Luther: "Reason should be
destroyed in all Christians."
Henry Buckle ( 1821-1862, English historian): "The Clergy, with a
few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries
been the avowed enemies of the
diffusion of knowledge."
Robert Green Ingersoll ( 1833-1899,America's greatest Agnostic and
Orator ):" It is claimed that every
member
of the church has solemnly agreed never to outgrow the creed; that
he has pledged himself to remain an
intellectual dwarf. Upon this condition the church agrees to save
his soul, and he hands over his brains
to bind the bargain.....with scraps of dogma and crumbs of
doctrine, he agrees that his soul shall be satisfied forever... Growth is heresy.
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