Isn't that the truth!
“I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist”= Outstanding book. Two thumbs up.
I’ve heard the argument, which I find compelling, that Peter’s actions are proof of the Resurrection. Before the Resurrection, Peter cowardly denied Jesus three times and hid in the Upper Room. But he emerged from hiding and denial, he went to Rome, center of the pagan Empire, to bravely preach the Word even to his death by upside down crucifixion. What changed him? It is attributed to some great event that would remove all fear of death, such as seeing his Lord and Savior alive and among men.
I remember the first time I actually read through the Bible I was startled from my preconceived idealistic thinking that all of God's chosen were perfect specimens beyond reproach.
It was humbling & healing to find them broken men & women ...like me, some flawed beyond measure... sinners saved by God's Grace alone.
Sounds like this is what the book is referencing.
As John Piper says..."We are all broken"....
..and only God's redeeming love can save us.
Yes through man’s unfaithfulness and rebellion God desires to redeem us and turn us to himself by his mercy and grace through Jesus. The Bible shares the whole truth, warts and all, and provides the answer to the human condition. When reading the Bible story’s place yourself in there and see how God always desires that folks come to repentance and experience mercy despite themselves. We always tend to look at the Jews in the OT and say “Man they were not bright.” We are just like them today and that should be quite obvious. We are a people needing mercy and grace and a turning to God to bring it about even today. Some things never really change even when we desire “Hope and Change.”
Absolutly right!
Vittorio MESSORI pointed that in his best-seller “Hypothesis on Jesus” in the 70’s.
That’s why the Bible(ancient and new Testament)has nothing common with the Koran
An interesting and insightful perspective.
Interesting point. Common sense also works too!
INDEED.
THX.
Thanks for sharing. This is very interesting. I had never thought of it from this perspective of documenting embarrassing moments.
This is, if one ignores the Ipuwer Papyrus:
This table comes from the first chapter of Immanuel Velikovsky's Ages in Chaos. The full text used to be available on line but now it appears to be restricted.
IPUWER PAPYRUS - LEIDEN 344 TORAH - EXODUS 2:5-6 Plague is throughout the land. Blood is everywhere. 2:10 The river is blood.
2:10 Men shrink from tasting - human beings, and thirst after water
3:10-13 That is our water! That is our happiness! What shall we do in respect thereof? All is ruin.
7:20 …all the waters of the river were turned to blood. 7:21 ...there was blood thoughout all the land of Egypt …and the river stank.
7:24 And all the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
2:10 Forsooth, gates, columns and walls are consumed by fire. 10:3-6 Lower Egypt weeps... The entire palace is without its revenues. To it belong [by right] wheat and barley, geese and fish
6:3 Forsooth, grain has perished on every side.
5:12 Forsooth, that has perished which was yesterday seen. The land is left over to its weariness like the cutting of flax.
9:23-24 ...and the fire ran along the ground... there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous. 9:25 ...and the hail smote every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.
9:31-32 ...and the flax and the barley was smitten; for the barley was in season, and flax was ripe.
But the wheat and the rye were not smitten; for they were not grown up.
10:15 ...there remained no green things in the trees, or in the herbs of the fields, through all the land of Egypt.
5:5 All animals, their hearts weep. Cattle moan... 9:2-3 Behold, cattle are left to stray, and there is none to gather them together.
9:3 ...the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field... and there shall be a very grievous sickness. 9:19 ...gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field...
9:21 And he that did not fear the word of the Lord left his servants and cattle in the field.
9:11 The land is without light 10:22 And there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt. 4:3 (5:6) Forsooth, the children of princes are dashed against the walls. 6:12 Forsooth, the children of princes are cast out in the streets.
6:3 The prison is ruined.
2:13 He who places his brother in the ground is everywhere.
3:14 It is groaning throughout the land, mingled with lamentations
12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the prison. 12:30 ...there was not a house where there was not one dead.
12:30 ...there was a great cry in Egypt.
7:1 Behold, the fire has mounted up on high. Its burning goes forth against the enemies of the land. 13:21 ... by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night. 3:2 Gold and lapis lazuli, silver and malachite, carnelian and bronze... are fastened on the neck of female slaves. 12:35-36 ...and they requested from the Egyptians, silver and gold articles and clothing. And God made the Egyptians favour them and they granted their request. [The Israelites] thus drained Egypt of its wealth.
To be sure, most mainstream historians do not accept the link (maybe because it wasn't one of their own who made the observation). They say the papyrus and the Exodus were 200 years apart. Of course Velikovsky deals with this pretty directly as the title of his book might suggest. (Einstein wasn't an historian either, but he was impressed.)
ML/NJ
Then there are those two inconvenient first century historians Josephius and Philo. I know that Josephius actually spoke to people who knew Jesus.
Go to work and read this later.
A major issue in the NT is the giving of too many facts which can be used to verify witnesses. for example Joseph of Arimathea took Jesus’s body. He and his ancestors could have been tracked down and interviewed by doubters.
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The Bible: Embarrassing and True
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Once I got into my teenage years, it was eye-opening to realize
how much “R-rated” material there is in the Bible.
Hm, interesting angle.
An interesting perspective on the history presented by the Bible.
The page has been taken down from Townhall.
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Isn't that the truth!