Great comedy Brian. The Dead Sea Scrolls thing is a pet peeve of mine. The religion I was stuck in until around 2005 used that troupe for decades. They used them to prove how the Bible was accurately translated.
On the flip side, if you look at their Bible today compared with just 30 years ago, it’s completely white washed and was rewritten to match their dogma.
Your 1 and 2 on the Bibles messianic prophecies are especially hilarious when you consider the fact that the verse about born to a virgin in the Old Testament both doesn’t say virgin, it says young woman and also is not a prophecy about the messiah but about another thing that is resolved 3 verses later in that story in the Old Testament
Also Jesus was almost certainly not born in Bethlehem but that birth story was squeezed in to the story purely to match the story, Jesus was almost certainly born in Nazareth
I would have been more amused if it was a list of actual true things in the Bible with banal scientific explanations. Like "King David is described as having a sword. People in his time and place really did forge bronze into cutting and stabbing weapons via this process...."
They say write what you know. Clearly, Mr. Comfot knows a lot about shit.
Great comedy Brian. The Dead Sea Scrolls thing is a pet peeve of mine. The religion I was stuck in until around 2005 used that troupe for decades. They used them to prove how the Bible was accurately translated.
On the flip side, if you look at their Bible today compared with just 30 years ago, it’s completely white washed and was rewritten to match their dogma.
Your 1 and 2 on the Bibles messianic prophecies are especially hilarious when you consider the fact that the verse about born to a virgin in the Old Testament both doesn’t say virgin, it says young woman and also is not a prophecy about the messiah but about another thing that is resolved 3 verses later in that story in the Old Testament
Also Jesus was almost certainly not born in Bethlehem but that birth story was squeezed in to the story purely to match the story, Jesus was almost certainly born in Nazareth
I would have been more amused if it was a list of actual true things in the Bible with banal scientific explanations. Like "King David is described as having a sword. People in his time and place really did forge bronze into cutting and stabbing weapons via this process...."
This sounds like a great book.
But...you bought the book!