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Comment by James Power on July 24, 2016 at 5:16am

None of the gospels were written to be part of a "holy Bible" inspired by God (Simply because the Bible as such didn't exist at that time.) We don't know anything about who wrote the gospels. The Church ascribed the names of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John to the texts much later. These four texts were not originally in the Bible, and they first became authoritative (approved by the church) late in the 2. century AD. The gospels are all written in Greek and there is no indication of any Hebrew originals, which rules out that the authors could be anyone among the followers of Jesus (who spoke Arameic).  The gospel texts are also heavily edited by editors, in particular the gospel of St. John.
The letters of John are not written by John the apostle. All the "Catholic letters" (I Peter, II Peter, I-III John, Jude) are also forgeries. And six of the thirteen letters of St. Paul are not by him. Even his "real" letters were later heavily edited by the Church.
Around 400 AD the scholar Hieronimus made a major editing of the Latin Bible, the result is the Latin Vulgata version of the Bible. This became the mother of all later translations. Hieronimus changed no less than 3500 instances in the text.

Comment by James Power on July 24, 2016 at 5:07am

A specialist on the New Testament Ernst Kasemann summarized his research on the life of Jesus " One is overwhelmed by how little can be called authentic". The theologian Bultmann said " The character of Jesus, a clear picture of his personality and life have faded beyond recognition, it would not surprise me in the slightest if the bones of Jesus were found today".
German theologian Holger Kersten said " To ascribe divine authority to writings containing countless contradictions, mistakes, omissions, logical errors, false statements and obvious lies borders on blasphemy". 

Comment by Less Prone on July 18, 2016 at 9:51pm

The bible is full of bad examples such as murder, human sacrifice, useless sacrifice practices, stealing and dishonesty, gullible people obliged to pay the priests and the church etc., many fantasies and the delusion of the chosen people.  Then there is one excellent example how we should live loving and helping each others, Jesus.

Comment by voxxpopulisuxx on July 18, 2016 at 9:08pm

I think your all being hypocrits for enjoying the fruits of Liberty birthed by the Church Jesus Christ founded.

All tyranny is pagan tyranny by which men are devalued to commodity. Christ alone teaches the infinite value of every soul...and the complete uselessness of money and wealth except to help all men

Yeah there are corrupt churchmen so what? proves nothing about Jesus Christ himself and what He teaches.

Comment by Anti Everything on May 22, 2016 at 4:01pm

I have a strong feeling there is a lot of 'things' missing from the Torah and the bible in total. Maybe even things that would make these stories, allegories sensible and believable.

Comment by James Power on May 22, 2016 at 1:40pm

GOD- “Only one religion is right but I won't say which one because I want you to figure it out by hating and killing each other while I watch” :-)

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on May 22, 2016 at 1:08pm

but dang...makes for great fiction reading ;)