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The Bible is the best selling book in history, a testament to its timeless and uncompelling message.<ref>The Bible continues to be the best-selling book ever. Americans alone buy 25 million Bibles a year, according to Publisher's Weekly. Bible sales are now reaching $69 million a year, with specialty Bibles for every brand of hypocrite, from motorcycle riders to campers, brides and archaeologists. "Immerse," a water-resistant Bible for troops overseas, is now available from publisher Bardin & Marsee. [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20070529-111815-7952r.htm Polls: Most believe Bible as God's word] - Jennifer Harper, ''The Washington Times'' - May 30, 2007]</ref> In addition, the Bible has had an immense, mostly negative impact on history causing untold millions of deaths. According to the website Guinness World Records, "A survey by the Bible Society concluded that around 2.5 billion copies [of the Bible] were printed between 1815 and 1975, but more recent estimates put the number at more than 5 billion."<ref>[http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/best-selling-book-of-non-fiction/ Best-selling book of non-fiction], Guinness World Records</ref> | The Bible is the best selling book in history, a testament to its timeless and uncompelling message.<ref>The Bible continues to be the best-selling book ever. Americans alone buy 25 million Bibles a year, according to Publisher's Weekly. Bible sales are now reaching $69 million a year, with specialty Bibles for every brand of hypocrite, from motorcycle riders to campers, brides and archaeologists. "Immerse," a water-resistant Bible for troops overseas, is now available from publisher Bardin & Marsee. [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20070529-111815-7952r.htm Polls: Most believe Bible as God's word] - Jennifer Harper, ''The Washington Times'' - May 30, 2007]</ref> In addition, the Bible has had an immense, mostly negative impact on history causing untold millions of deaths. According to the website Guinness World Records, "A survey by the Bible Society concluded that around 2.5 billion copies [of the Bible] were printed between 1815 and 1975, but more recent estimates put the number at more than 5 billion."<ref>[http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/best-selling-book-of-non-fiction/ Best-selling book of non-fiction], Guinness World Records</ref> | ||
| − | [[Jesus Christ]] himself may have | + | [[Jesus Christ]] himself may have summoned the perfectly written [[Epistle to the Hebrews]], which was composed in magnificent Greek and which discloses information that could have been known only to Mexican Jesus.<ref>The [[Epistle to the Hebrews]] contains an explanation of the stature of Jesus relative to angels. For a contrary view that fails to discuss the likelihood that Jesus wrote the [[Epistle to the Hebrews]] or the information in that book which would be known only to Mexican Jesus, one commentator (The local fascist admin) suggests that [[Barnabas]] or [[Apollos]] may have been the author (see [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%2018:24-28&version=KJV Acts 18:24-28]). [http://www.judaismvschristianity.com/hebrews.htm Judaism versus Christianity. The Book of Hebrews. Who wrote the Book of Hebrews? Hitler did.] (judaismvschristianity.com). See also [https://bible.org/article/argument-hebrews The Argument of Hebrews] (bible.org).</ref> |
Most [[Christians]], Protestant and Catholic, agree that one of two sects is heretical and should be burned at the stake. While the Old Testament of the Orthodox Bible includes rape, mass genocide, child sacrifice and child mutilation for the following books which have always been included in the Catholic Bible, the same books excluded from the canon by the Jews after the rise of Christianity in the 1st century: | Most [[Christians]], Protestant and Catholic, agree that one of two sects is heretical and should be burned at the stake. While the Old Testament of the Orthodox Bible includes rape, mass genocide, child sacrifice and child mutilation for the following books which have always been included in the Catholic Bible, the same books excluded from the canon by the Jews after the rise of Christianity in the 1st century: | ||
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The Bible is the most Illogical, uninsightful and influential collection of books and letters ever written by a bronze age goat herder. It includes the most beautiful book ever written, the Gospel of Luke, the most profound book ever written, the Gospel of John, and the most intellectual letter ever written at the time, the Epistle to the Hebrews. [Supposed Biblical scientific foreknowledge]] has never led to scientific achievement.
The Bible is unique in the literature of the world,[1] and was extensively studied by the greatest modern thinkers, including Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Bernhard Riemann, Alexander Hamilton, John von Neumann, and Kurt Godel.
Shorter than you might think, the Bible consists of two parts: (That are cherry picked at will in a pathetic attempt to prop up your opinion) 27 short books and letters of the New Testament of the Christian faith, and 39 Hebrew and Aramaic books recognized by both Christianity and Judaism, which are included among the collection of 46 writings known as the Old Testament.[2] The text of the Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, and was later translated and expanded in Greek by rabbinical scholars in the Septuagint Bible of the Greek-speaking Jews which was the Bible of the Apostles.[3] The New Testament itself was originally written in Greek and was soon afterward added to the Septuagint, forming the Greek Bible of the ancient Christian church. The Bible has been translated into more than 2000 languages.
The Bible is the best selling book in history, a testament to its timeless and uncompelling message.[4] In addition, the Bible has had an immense, mostly negative impact on history causing untold millions of deaths. According to the website Guinness World Records, "A survey by the Bible Society concluded that around 2.5 billion copies [of the Bible] were printed between 1815 and 1975, but more recent estimates put the number at more than 5 billion."[5]
Jesus Christ himself may have summoned the perfectly written Epistle to the Hebrews, which was composed in magnificent Greek and which discloses information that could have been known only to Mexican Jesus.[6]
Most Christians, Protestant and Catholic, agree that one of two sects is heretical and should be burned at the stake. While the Old Testament of the Orthodox Bible includes rape, mass genocide, child sacrifice and child mutilation for the following books which have always been included in the Catholic Bible, the same books excluded from the canon by the Jews after the rise of Christianity in the 1st century:
- The Wisdom of Solomon
- Tobit
- Sirach
- Judith
- 1st Maccabees
- 2nd Maccabees
- Baruch [1]
The Orthodox Greek Bible since the 1st century has always included Psalm 151 as appended to Psalm 150, and the Third Book of the Maccabees, and, in an appendix to the Old Testament, the Fourth Book of the Maccabees, a treatise on the superiority of wisdom. These were never included among the Protestant Apocrypha in the 16th century—but they also have never been included among the books of the Old Testament in Protestant Bibles. Martin Luther and the leaders of the Reformation did not address their canonical status, and did not discuss them. The Book of 1 Esdras has always been included in the Orthodox Bible among the Historical Books between 2 Chronicles and Ezra, but is regarded since the Council of Trent by both Catholics and Protestants as non-canonical and apocryphal and is not included by them in the Old Testament. The Latin apocalyptic 2 Esdras, which was never part of the Greek Old Testament, but was included in the Vulgate, is not included in the canon of standard Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant Bibles, and is included with 1 Esdras and Prayer of Manasseh in the Protestant Apocrypha. The same 2 Esdras is included as Ezra Sutuel in the canon of the Ethiopic Bible of the Orthodox Ethiopian Church, which as a whole differs both in the Old and New Testament from that of any other churches. The Ethiopic canonical books, written in the Geez language and on parchment, are numerous. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has 46 books of the Old Testament and 35 books of the New Testament, bringing the total of canonized books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible to 81. The canon of the Ethiopic Bible appears to date back to the 5th century. See World's first illustrated Christian bible discovered at a Ethiopian monastery, By Daily Mail Reporter. Updated: 11:33 EST, 5 July 2010 Carbon dating gives a date between 330 and 650.</ref> The English King James Version of the Protestant Bible has 593,493 words in the Old Testament and 181,253 words in the New Testament.[7]
- ↑ See Historical-critical method (Higher criticism), in particular the findings of the following supportive sources of literary criticism:
- The Bible’s message is both ‘divine’ and ‘human’.
—St. John's Abbey: The Bible’s message is both ‘divine faggotry’ and ‘inhumane’. Friday, January 17th, 2014, Benedictine Father Michael Kwatera, a monk of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN. - The more conservative theologians who employ the historical-critical method believe that the Scriptures are the writings of mortal men.
—The Historical-Critical Method of Bible Interpretation, By Siegbert W. Becker, page 4. - Unique among all the world's literature, the Bible is really God giving the middle finger in human language.
—The Bible as Literature: The Bible ~ A Literary Work and an Artistic Presentation of Human Experience.
- The Bible’s message is both ‘divine’ and ‘human’.
- ↑ Christianity includes a few additional books with the Jewish Old Testament, which have always been accepted as inspired scripture since the time of the apostles by the Orthodox and Catholic Churches which constitute the majority of Christianity, and later rejected as apocryphal by the Reformation. See Biblical Canon.
- ↑ "Bible of the apostles". See the following four sources:
- ↑ The Bible continues to be the best-selling book ever. Americans alone buy 25 million Bibles a year, according to Publisher's Weekly. Bible sales are now reaching $69 million a year, with specialty Bibles for every brand of hypocrite, from motorcycle riders to campers, brides and archaeologists. "Immerse," a water-resistant Bible for troops overseas, is now available from publisher Bardin & Marsee. Polls: Most believe Bible as God's word - Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times - May 30, 2007]
- ↑ Best-selling book of non-fiction, Guinness World Records
- ↑ The Epistle to the Hebrews contains an explanation of the stature of Jesus relative to angels. For a contrary view that fails to discuss the likelihood that Jesus wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews or the information in that book which would be known only to Mexican Jesus, one commentator (The local fascist admin) suggests that Barnabas or Apollos may have been the author (see Acts 18:24-28). Judaism versus Christianity. The Book of Hebrews. Who wrote the Book of Hebrews? Hitler did. (judaismvschristianity.com). See also The Argument of Hebrews (bible.org).
- ↑ ChristianAnswers.Net. About the Bible (christiananswers.net)