Current Events > Did the stuff in the Bible really happen?

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Did it actually happen, as stated, literally, and with all details correct?

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Even if it did, it was so long ago it doesn't matter. God's clearly lost interest in us and moved on lol.
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You don't think the Old Testament is largely historically accurate?

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Some are historical events, but some of those have also been embellished. Some may also simply be myths. The Bible is basically just a compilation of a bunch of scrolls written at different points in time, and many details and events are vague because they're expanded upon in scrolls that were left out of the Bible.

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I'm not convinced Jesus was a single person. They had a ton of prophets at the time of the NT. I would not be surprised if Jesus is an amalgamation of several people, that had their stories combined into one mythical figure

The bible is based on astrological allegories.

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i feel the world would be better if Bible Black was real rather than the actual Bible

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Its as real as harry potter

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There was probably a crazy dude named jesus who srarted a cult and was then crucified

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Sunhawk posted...

Did it actually happen, as stated, literally, and with all details correct?

no

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I read that critics had claimed many things in the bible were made up like for example: Belshazzar.
Then later historians find the bible was correct and the critics wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar

If you google it though most of all the sources are religiously biased.
Guess it is not so easy to find what archaelology used to believe before the 1930s?

Ok found a secular source about Belshazzar.
This aligns with what the religiously biased sites say:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Belshazzar

Belshazzar had been known only from the biblical Book of Daniel (chapters 5, 78) and from Xenophons Cyropaedia until 1854, when references to him were found in Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions.

WingsOfGood posted...

I read that critics had claimed many things in the bible were made up like for example: Belshazzar.
Then later historians find the bible was correct and the critics wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar

If you google it though most of all the sources are religiously biased.
Guess it is not so easy to find what archaelology used to believe before the 1930s?

WingsOfGood posted...

Ok found a secular source about Belshazzar.
This aligns with what the religiously biased sites say:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Belshazzar

Like I said, a lot of the stories are based on actual events, such as using figures that did exist in actuality, but the stories were likely also embellished to make them more fantastical than they actually were.

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My 7th grade history book had a 2 page section on Old Testament stuff. I specifically remember it talking about Moses parting the Red Sea.

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Solar_Crimson posted...

Like I said, a lot of the stories are based on actual events, such as using figures that did exist in actuality, but the stories were likely also embellished to make them more fantastical than they actually were.

My favorite one is Abraham. Maybe one day we find evidence of him on a tablet or something.

Also, it is funny how historians don't dispute the historicity of Jesus but you never find a shortage of people who do. That is, they don't think anyone liked that existed at all.

I hope that shit about Absalom isn't true. My boy David gets ONE soldier killed so he can fuck his wife and all this shit happens Plus the baby.

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Maybe

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Solar_Crimson posted...

The Bible is basically just a compilation of a bunch of scrolls written at different points in time, and many details and events are vague because they're expanded upon in scrolls that were left out of the Bible.

Not only that but versions of the Bible change things to suit whatever agenda was being pushed at the time. The King James version of the Bible, while being the most popular version right now, is one of the most inaccurate versions. King James altered and removed passages to suit his needs then pushed his version out in mass.

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yes.

• skygod made women from man rib after first woman refused anything but cowgirl
• adam, cain, and abel ran a train on eve and thats why there are humans today
• old guy built a giant boat to save all the animals but the dinosaurs, which is why they're gone. also they did the train thing to bring back humans again.
• schizophrenic guy heard a voice and almost murdered his son. that one got the better deal though since he sent the other one off to die in the desert.
• burning bush told a guy to do a thing and he did it, no hallucinogenic herbs were involved.
• dude kills a guy with a rock, gets made king for it. spends his time fucking his generals wives and having said generals murdered to hide it, of course it was the womans fault though...
• time passes...
• girl gets knocked up, totally by god though.
• jewish hercules grows up, stays a virgin, and becomes a wizard at 30 like the prophecies foretell.
• nobody liked wizards back then, and they didn't know how to do the duck thing, so they nailed him to a stick and waited for magic.
• jewish hercules did his best david blaine impression and skygod was so impressed he teleported him away.
• after that things got boring. some asshole killed all the dragons, another killed all the imaginary snakes in ireland, some french girl heard voices and was totally not raped then murdered to hide the evidence of rape.

this is all fact, not some fever dream fanfiction written piecemeal over millennia to validate current time practices... also, ignore all the stories with similar aspects to other myths; clearly coincidental and totally not because they were copied over and then original sources burned for pagan beliefs.

it should be self evident, this is all sarcasm

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Some shit happened, like the great flood we have had more than one, however i doubt there actually was a noah. Further there are flood stories in almost every religion including religions that are much older than catholic/christian/muslim/judaism.

the bible shouldnt be taken literally though, especially since it was written and also rewritten by lying humans who sought control like emperor constantine.

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Sunhawk posted...

You don't think the Old Testament is largely historically accurate?

As religious texts go, yes. The Bible has more history in it than most religious texts.

"Accuracy" is a difficult thing when it comes to documents that originate in prehistory. Real events might be represented but not with any accurate way, which doesn't make the telling any less valuable-- which is why a good portion of archaeology is done in libraries. I used to be a paleographer, so I dealt with this sort of thing a lot.

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Idk youd have to ask Jesus and see what he says

if it did i feel bad for being born too late to enjoy getting drowned out by the flood

ps: the bible is just an adaptation of older religious mythologies lol

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Solar_Crimson posted...

Some are historical events, but some of those have also been embellished. Some may also simply be myths. The Bible is basically just a compilation of a bunch of scrolls written at different points in time, and many details and events are vague because they're expanded upon in scrolls that were left out of the Bible.

Oral histories change over time, while writing something down freezes it in time.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Oral histories change over time, while writing something down freezes it in time.

Accurate, but only a relatively small portion of the Bibie originates in oral history. It's also important to distinguish between oral tradition v transmission.

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