Comments on: The Bible

By: Memebaser

Memebaser — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:24:37 +0000

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I can’t believe how long the comments are…

By: Alexa Beratung

Alexa Beratung — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:39:44 +0000

I just want to say thanks for this interesting thread about The Bible – GraphJam: Music and Pop Culture in Charts and Graphs. Let us explain them.! Regards, Alexa Beratung

By: Nora

Nora — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:58:24 +0000

Well, that’s just one of the most ridiculous arguments for Jesus I’ve ever heard. A bunch of people believe it so it must be true. A bunch of people believed the earth was flat. A bunch of people believed everything revolved around the sun. And we all know that neither of those are true.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:29:19 +0000

You know what proof there is that Jesus did exist? Thousands of Jews in Biblical times were willing do die for their beliefs. And they wouldn’t do that if they weren’t 100% sure that he had been alive, performed miracles, and risen from the dead.

By: Nora

Nora — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:25:14 +0000

I assume you mean the bible in Hebrew, because it was originally written in Hebrew. As I don’t read Hebrew, I cannot confirm nor deny your statement. However, I’m fairly certain that the bible has been copied many times, and that the original writings of it don’t still exist in most cases, so the lack of typos doesn’t necessarily mean that divine intervention caused the writers of the bible to write it.

By: Believer

Believer — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:48:29 +0000

Absolutely not! Granted, men did write the Bible, but they wrote it under divine inspiration from God. Last I checked, God doesn’t make mistakes. Have you ever noticed that, 1) There are no typos anywhere in the Bible and 2) That the Bible is the most bestselling book in the world? The Bible also never contradicts itself, though it may seem like it does at times. If you take the time to think about and/or study the so-called contradictions, you will find that they are really not contradictions at all. And Jesus didn’t hand out Bibles because there were no full Bibles in His time. There was only the Torah–the first five books of the Old Testament. There may have been more, but I don’t know for sure, so I won’t say that there was. This graph is NOT accurate if you believe in the Bible. The Bible is the word of God spoken to men, which men wrote down word for word and preserved for centuries. I don’t know of any book that has been preserved for nearly two thousand years (most parts of it far more), and I doubt anyone else does. If the fact that it has survived this long is any indicator, I would say that people though it pretty important. I suggest you do the same.

By: Nora

Nora — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:43:47 +0000

This graph is accurate even if you believe in the bible.
The bible is the word of god as told and written through the vernacular of man.
Jesus didn’t hand out bibles. Bibles were written by men and are therefore as fallible as man is.

By: Chance

Chance — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:31:15 +0000

god is loving, yet he is just too, so he has to punish sinners or he is not just

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:42:28 +0000

Jesus was real and thats the truth dont deney him love him and ask him into your heart now or you will end up in a bad place (hell)

By: HGJD

HGJD — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:42:08 +0000

He doesn’t. So both theist and atheists believe although unproven. In response to the vast amount of comments above: yes the figure of Jesus as we know him is surrounded by characteristics of older prophets and small religions. But to say he didn’t exist at all is improbable. The first Christians didn’t just ‘pop up’. I say he probably existed, and was a great and charismatic guy. Most of the problems people have with Christianity are problems with the theology created in the centuries after Christ, things you won’t find in the bible. That God is omnipotent, ubiquitous and good has more to do with philosophy than religion. If anyone even bothers to read this between the vast expansion of opinions of half-informed people like myself.

By: this is my username

this is my username — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:44:46 +0000

atheist graph.

my opinion. you can’t change it.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:23:23 +0000

You say that like you’re proud of it. Isn’t pride a sin?
Isn’t it your duty to humbly read your bible every day?

I have read the bible cover to cover multiple times.

And I honestly doubt that you read your bible because you stated that it never contradicts itself. I honestly couldn’t tell if that first comment you made was sarcastic or not, but knew it wasn’t as I read more.

Thou shalt not bear false witness.

I think you should either walk in Jesus’ footsteps and do what the bible tells you to literally or give up your religion, because nitpicking at what you think the bible says and what it actually says doesn’t seem like God’s intentions to me.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:52:36 +0000

Nice one. I love the stuff they tell people at church that either doesn’t make sense or contradicts itself.

By: Nora

Nora — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:30:22 +0000

That’s your opinion and you’re certainly entitled to it.
But it doesn’t have to be the opinion of everyone.

By: Preston Schmanning

Preston Schmanning — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:57:36 +0000

Shutup Jesus was the Savior of all and my teacher says its a large possibility youre going to hell if you deny God’s mercy and the Gospels were divinely inspired

By: A Catholic

A Catholic — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:47:38 +0000

*sigh* does anyone know if there is a “I found this offensive” button around? Because to be honest, I can’t seem to find one……

By: katrina

katrina — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:37:53 +0000

Brother i support ur comment a 100%!!!! SCIENCE is kewl, but it’s pure crap when it starts contradicting what MY GOD did and said! Science is pplz own understanding but christianity is based on GOD”S understanding!!!!!!!!!

By: katrina

katrina — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:29:59 +0000

you did awesome…way better than any way i could have explained the TRUTH to someone who simply doesn’t want to believe in God! You diffiantly nailed it. Don’t let these ppl get to you!

By: katrina

katrina — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:19:19 +0000

Great job “Coram”….God’s TRUTH is in you….b/c certaintly you have his Word in your heart! keep standing true!

By: katrina

katrina — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:11:41 +0000

No Tilly is not “safely ignored” ppl get mad at christians for pushing their religion on them but yet christians can be kind and caring….and they still get degraded! People need to grow up!!!

By: katrina

katrina — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:59:41 +0000

Way to go “veritas”!!!! Dang you spit the TRUTH like it was nothing!! BEAUTIFUL! I really find this page very disturbing….what has America become??? People wanna talk about how God doesn’t exist and then they wanna argue about the things written in the BIble wernt written by God….hmmm….i bet everyone that is saying that CANT even understand the Bible even if they tried to read it!!! But of course they can’t! And that’s why there are so many Bible’s being translated! They keep trying harder & harder to make it easier for the world to undestand! But that was a mistake cuz now you have ppl with another excuse why it’s not true! But it’s just an EXCUSE!!! It’s not the truth and “veritas” since you know scripture so good, than we both know that the world will never come to understand the Bible unles you have his Holy Spirit dwelling inside of you…Am I right??? And not only that but God tells us that the world didn’t accept Jesus so therefore neither will we be accepted in this world for as long as we live! Christians get persecuted all over this world for his namesake!!! B/c we’ve found truth and We know we have something worth living for and dying for. JESUS CHRIST….LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS…THE ALMIGHTY GOD….THE ALPHA AND OMEGA…B/C HE IS THE BEGINNING AND HE IS THE END!!! God started the world and He will be ending it! Sure you don’t have to believe that…and God gives you that choice, but he also gives two dominions….heaven and hell…and you only go to one! Seriously ppl….computers can be smarter than humans…so obvisiously whoever created the world is greater than we are!!! Im sorry, but people most be real ignorant or just plain stupid not to believe in some God or anotha! Really!!! People say that we’re advancing, but only with technology cuz clearly ppl are advancing in their own knowledge but not in TRUTH!!! I hope ppl will start to wake up and find the REAL TRUTH and their REAL PURPOSE in living before it’s too late.

By: Zrsk

Zrsk — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:34:16 +0000

…I honestly do not know how to respond to that.

By: tyler

tyler — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:37:57 +0000

Not forced to deal, sorry. You’re not being given special privileges.

By: tyler

tyler — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:37:30 +0000

Learn grammar, please.
That is a massive generalization. I respect all religions, unless they are forced on me, and I am agnostic. “Well, seeing pregnant teenagers,tatooed men,and people saying”oh my god” OFFENDS MY RELIGON!!”
The mere fact that you would have others stop doing something simply because it offends you is ridiculous, because you are oppressing others, but if you aren’t allowed to pray, give us a better reason why, look it up somewhere, ask a teacher or something. I have yet to meet ANYONE that says people are “offended” by Christian prayer. Also, the fact that you say “a few are respectable people who leave other religons alone” COMPLETELY invalidates your claim of not discriminating or being a bigot, along with the fact that when you list the other religions in your second paragraph, you say they should ban atheism in capital letters. “God tell me why am i being punished?” I’m not God, but I can tell you that you need to understand the difference between your religion being challenged or persecuted. Please, there are no “atheist ways”. Rest assured, there are good Christians with tattoos, or who have impregnated a young girl, or say “oh my god” in shock. Leave off it, you’re not being persecuted, you’re just being forced to deal with the same sh*t as many other religions are.

By: RainbowPaint

RainbowPaint — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:24:10 +0000

Should be 0%, 100%.

By: Jimbo is bored

Jimbo is bored — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:54:36 +0000

All this stuff aside, you want to tell me the most influential figure in human history didn’t exist?

By: Your Mom

Your Mom — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:38:26 +0000

Then what is the evidence for everything else that happened WAYYY back when before written history?

By: cyt4ever

cyt4ever — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:02:25 +0000

Please forgive the weirdly worded 2nd line of paragraph 4

By: cyt4ever

cyt4ever — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:59:47 +0000

Actually I *CAN* answer that very similar argument stated almost word for word from an episode from west wing

All the refrences you used came from Leviticus which was the *old* law given to the Israelites. In Old Testament times everyone had to remain “pure” and follow all the rules and not sin or else they had to offer sacrifices in order to be considered pure again in the eyes of God.

When Jesus died he became the ultimate sacrifice (and he had authority to change God’s law because he WAS God.) It was no longer necessary to provide sacrifices because Jesus already did it for us. Many of the rules about remaining pure and disposing of impure no longer mattered because no matter what we do we can be pure again through Jesus.

One specific example: many of the “purity” laws were made for safety! Think about it. There were several they were out in the middle of nowhere for 40 years with no hospitals or medical supplies. They were not to eat or touch certain foods to avoid getting sick. If one person got some nasty food-borne illness it would have started a plague instantly. Jesus changed this law when he said “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’? For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods “clean.”) Mark 7:18-19

The character in West Wing didn’t look at the bible as a WHOLE instead he just used a few quotes out of the most controversial and misunderstood sections. It would be like looking at the history of the constitution and saying “look it says alcohol is illegal but I can still buy a bottle of Champaign. Therefore you can’t trust the constitution” without bothering to mention the fact that the 18th amendment was legally changed 13 years later.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:52:08 +0000

In what world is Beowulf history? And the Trojan War? Historians aren’t even sure whether it even happened.

By: bkimax

bkimax — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:52:47 +0000

Word

By: bkimax

bkimax — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:04:48 +0000

Nice one Passerby.

By: yasoup

yasoup — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:49:33 +0000

Amen!

By: bkimax

bkimax — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:47:22 +0000

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA on this whole page, out of all these posts, this one is the most beautiful, I could cry.

By: bkimax

bkimax — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:38:43 +0000

Nice one

By: bkimax

bkimax — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:36:07 +0000

hi 5

By: bkimax

bkimax — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:30:07 +0000

Ummm…sarcasm win or history fail?

By: bkimax

bkimax — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:26:02 +0000

Loool epic

By: bkimax

bkimax — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:10:52 +0000

Sarcasm win

By: bkimax

bkimax — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:29:39 +0000

Looooollll

By: bkimax

bkimax — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:06:24 +0000

Epic….just…..epic

By: bkimax

bkimax — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:40:22 +0000

R u serious? U eitha need a math or history lesson…

By: Disser

Disser — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:15:42 +0000

Me likey big words.
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Just kidding, however, the big words and vocabulary was just a tiny slice of what was served there! Nice job. I respect whatever you want to believe (or not believe, whatever floats your boat).
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It is kind of queer how people say “I’m going to pray for you,” because I wouldn’t really want somebody praying to, let’s say, Allah (JUST AN EXAMPLE, I AM NOT PICKING ON ISLAM.)
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PS just use these little dot thingys to separate what you want to say

By: D:

D: — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:28:42 +0000

THIS IS SO OFFENSIVE.

By: majestic-marcus

majestic-marcus — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:44:40 +0000

true but you also influence their lives in less obvious ways, allowing them to make their own decisions. its the whole free will argument.

By: JessKa

JessKa — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:35:13 +0000

*applauds intelligent (if slightly inconsistent) post*

By: ICDK

ICDK — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:52:57 +0000

I am atheist. My husband will not commit to a title, however, he either believes there is no god or he doesn’t believe in god, I haven’t figured out which, yet. He introduced to me the idea that the stories in the Bible are no different from any mythological story: they have lessons to teach in creative and sometimes intimidating ways. The similarities between Jesus and other “saviors” such as Horus, Krishna and Osiris are too similar to discount and all predate Jesus. There is a serious problem with controlling one’s own life when he surrenders it to people who not only tell him what to believe but how to believe it. I believe it was Dawkins who said that children are not born Christian, but born of Christian parents. How does a child come to believe in Santa Claus? He certainly doesn’t know about SC until he’s introduced to him and taught to believe that he’s being watched 24/7. We all know that story and we all know it’s a story and can all concur it’s tradition. This belief serves as a warning to children that should they misbehave, they will be punished by not receiving gifts. SC is omniscient. Religion is no different. It is a tool by which people are continually oppressed and admonished for being human (notice I’m not just picking on Christians, here). While I would like to say “live and let live”, that statement will be one-sided in my favor: as soon as a religious person finds out I don’t believe in god, I will be told I am going to burn in hell (which is interesting as I don’t believe in hell and will just roll my eyes) or that he or she will pray for me. Were I a Satanist telling a Christian “I will pray for you” the Christian would become incensed. Don’t offer to pray for someone you know to be agnostic or atheist. If you do, you deserve whatever you get as a response. Yeah, I’m all over the place in this post, so I apologize for the lack of consistency.

By: ICDK

ICDK — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:17:03 +0000

Well, *they* started it…

By: karl!

karl! — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:14:30 +0000

you don’t really ‘get’ the bible do you?

By: Disser

Disser — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:25:10 +0000

And saying that Jesus didn’t exist CERTAINLY didn’t hurt my feelings….