"  I really enjoy the look on my ex pastors face when confronted with this, " So, your saying God told Abraham to sacrifice his one and only son. And then God said "PSYCH! I was just kidding! here's a goat".  "

"Hi Michael, Precisely! I'm glad someone else making this point, as too many on this forum let their experience with creationist or literalist strains of Christianity inform their critiques to an unhealthy extent. We need quite a bit more of…"

"Your comment on the fact that Orthodox and Catholic theologians don't take the Bible at face value is spot on. The problem with many who post on AN is that they try to argue from the basis that the stories are literally true, which the…"

"One that theologians and Bible experts have had considerable trouble with over the years are the two different genealogies of Jesus, given in Matthew and Luke. They conflict with each other and with the portions that refer to genealogies in First…"

"Hmmm... Well... I suppose he DID have more than one rib to convert. Dude looked like a freakin jelly fish by the time he finished God's "Bones for Bitches Extravaganza"!"

"Details, details!  Maybe Adam had a chick on the side!"

"Hehehe... I was gonna post a link... but went for the more dramatic 8 zillion, item by item approach. Those are just contradictory statements. The "good stuff" is contradictions in logic. Cain is banished after killing his brother and…"

"Guys, guys, GUYS!  Ya know, you COULD just refer Mantiki to the Skeptic's Annotated Bible instead of flooding this place with contradiction after contradiction.  But NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! [chuckle!]Some good stuff there, Edward and…"

"  Think not that I come to send peace on earth: I came not to send      peace, but a sword.     - Matthew 10:34     ... all they that take the sword shall perish with the…"

"Theological doctrines:     1. God is satisfied with his works         Gen 1:31        God is dissatisfied with his works.           Gen 6:6     2. God dwells in chosen temples         2 Chron 7:12,16        God dwells not in…"

"Jesus was not a paragon of virtue, even with respect to how to treat others.  If he was, then why did he call the Samaritan woman a dog, which was - and remains - a huge insult in the Middle East?  Why did he overturn the…"

"oh wow - tha is a very good observation Anthony. I agree."

"My problem with religion is with pastors and preachers telling me some vague thing and never touching on the issue. For instance in all 6 years of attending what I can now call a cult, one set of questions have received NO answers at all. Why do we…"

"Here's a biggie. The bible many times affirms that God is both omnipotent and omniscient. But this is a logical contradiction, because if God is omniscient then he infallibly knows eternally what he will do in the future. But this contradicts…"

"One of the certainties in debating biblical inerrantists is that no matter how lucid a biblical text may be, if the plain reading of the text results in a discrepancy, inerrantists will stretch imagination beyond reasonable limits to try to make it…"