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Careful reading of Genesis, challenges Genesis, when something contradicts itself as many times as the bible does, you know the people that put it together were a little whacked in the head, or else god is, but I don't think god is whacked, so the guys that put that book together must be.

This "contradiction" theme seems to be a regular proleptic argument for people who are violently opposed to the Bible. I have read it several times now and have yet to find any contradictions. Can you please document these claims of contradictions?

There are, of course, no contradictions if your heart is hardened against seeing them. But only a person who has decided in advance that there can be no errors or contradictions is capable of reading the Bible this way.

Amazing how easy it is to make fun of other people's beliefs, whether they be Bhudist, Hindu, Muslim or whatever, but one's own sacred text is obviously without error.

I am not VIOLENTLY opposed to the bible, it is a wonderful book, full of history and morality myths. It is a wonderful look into the hearts and minds of ancient man.

I do NOT believe that it is the word of god, it has way too many contradictions and silly historical facts that are totally wrong.

It was put together by a group of priests and brothers of the Roman Catholic church from around 130+ other historical and religious documents, and edited and put together to fit what they wanted the early church believers to believe. It was a book that was all about POWER.

You wish to believe in the bible as the word of god, be my guest, it really does not matter to me, UNTIL, you try and interfere with the scientific process and learning.

Morality is a societal thing, not a religious thing, religion was created as a way to enforce those morals so that a society would survive. Religion was a survival tool, because the masses were uneducated and were not expected to understand why morality was important, so they needed a threat over their heads in order to make sure that their basic instincts did not take over from their programmed moral codes.

As the population has become more educated, morals as a survival tool are less that, then a tool for getting along and living within a society. People are moral because that is the way the society is built. If a person is NOT moral to those standards, then that person is punished via that societies laws, which are in fact the moral codes of that society.

BUT, many people need the threat of eternal damnation in order to adhere to a societies moral codes, and for that I salute religions, but that is what they are for, to control those with the stronger base instincts, and to keep those with those instincts under control.