No other religion on earth has a suicide bombing problem. No other religion on earth quotes their bible while filming a beheading on video, no other religion teaches how to make pressure cooker bombs on your kitchen table. Parents who read the Bible nowadays don’t acid attack their children, and still don’t honor kill them. Can’t say the same for the ones reading the koran.
How about gunning down cartoonists for insulting Jesus, not really happening either. Did any Christians get put to death for blasphemy this year?
How about raping and beheading on video 2 Scandinavian girls because the quoran says it’s okay to humiliate, rape and kill non-believers and to kill the infidel using a blade on their throat?
Equating Christian teachings to Islam teachings is intellectual dishonesty
People will hate on that because people over generations have bought into and gave so much money. Not hard to believe the Bible was written by crazy people to sucker in a large following and control them.
Have you got some corroborating evidence to back up your assertion that it was edited by kings? I'm genuinely curious. Who were the kings that edited it? When did they edit it? Did they edit the Tanakh, and then the New Testament, the New Testament followed by the Tanakh, or did they edit both at once? How were these edits able to succeed given that Christianity spread far and wide early on per non-Christian Roman Senator and Consul Cornelius Tacitus' account in his Annals that at the time of the Great Fire in AD64, there were many Christians in Rome already (He uses the Latin phrase multitudo ingens or "vast multitude.") Christianity had spread a long way early on, since the distance, as the crow flies, between Jerusalem and Rome is around 2,300 kilometers or 1,430 miles, greater than the distance between NYC and Havana. If the Bible was edited later, how did Christianity prove so popular in the first place? How did people who adhered to a version of Christianity without the editing, later come to adopt the edited beliefs, given that the "later" edits has to be accepted by Christians already spread throughout the Roman empire?
I'd sincerely be interested in hearing your answers to some of these questions. By the way, if you're interested in an objective take on the facts regarding some of the questions above, using evidence from many non-Christian sources (Tacitus named above, Pliny the Younger, Trajan, and Flavius Josephus just to name a few), check out the short book "Can we trust the Gospels by Peter J. Willams. It's about 120 pages of as-objective-as-you-can-get evidence that I think merits consideration.
This reply was written for /uNullifyAndSecede but I'm also tagging you u/mikejones in case you want to read about some facts regarding the reliability of the Gospels, as testified by non-Christian first-century historians in the book I mentioned in the paragraph before this. There is also other analysis of the New Testament that I say without offense, that I think neither of you have considered before. Hope you consider giving it a read as it's rather enlightening, and has enough evidence to possibly change your opinion on the matter.
Tbf...the Bible is right up there too
Disagree.
No other religion on earth has a suicide bombing problem. No other religion on earth quotes their bible while filming a beheading on video, no other religion teaches how to make pressure cooker bombs on your kitchen table. Parents who read the Bible nowadays don’t acid attack their children, and still don’t honor kill them. Can’t say the same for the ones reading the koran. How about gunning down cartoonists for insulting Jesus, not really happening either. Did any Christians get put to death for blasphemy this year? How about raping and beheading on video 2 Scandinavian girls because the quoran says it’s okay to humiliate, rape and kill non-believers and to kill the infidel using a blade on their throat?
Equating Christian teachings to Islam teachings is intellectual dishonesty
Statism is the most dangerous religion.
People will hate on that because people over generations have bought into and gave so much money. Not hard to believe the Bible was written by crazy people to sucker in a large following and control them.
It wasn’t written with that in mind but it was edited by kings to further their own power.
Have you got some corroborating evidence to back up your assertion that it was edited by kings? I'm genuinely curious. Who were the kings that edited it? When did they edit it? Did they edit the Tanakh, and then the New Testament, the New Testament followed by the Tanakh, or did they edit both at once? How were these edits able to succeed given that Christianity spread far and wide early on per non-Christian Roman Senator and Consul Cornelius Tacitus' account in his Annals that at the time of the Great Fire in AD64, there were many Christians in Rome already (He uses the Latin phrase multitudo ingens or "vast multitude.") Christianity had spread a long way early on, since the distance, as the crow flies, between Jerusalem and Rome is around 2,300 kilometers or 1,430 miles, greater than the distance between NYC and Havana. If the Bible was edited later, how did Christianity prove so popular in the first place? How did people who adhered to a version of Christianity without the editing, later come to adopt the edited beliefs, given that the "later" edits has to be accepted by Christians already spread throughout the Roman empire?
I'd sincerely be interested in hearing your answers to some of these questions. By the way, if you're interested in an objective take on the facts regarding some of the questions above, using evidence from many non-Christian sources (Tacitus named above, Pliny the Younger, Trajan, and Flavius Josephus just to name a few), check out the short book "Can we trust the Gospels by Peter J. Willams. It's about 120 pages of as-objective-as-you-can-get evidence that I think merits consideration.
This reply was written for /uNullifyAndSecede but I'm also tagging you u/mikejones in case you want to read about some facts regarding the reliability of the Gospels, as testified by non-Christian first-century historians in the book I mentioned in the paragraph before this. There is also other analysis of the New Testament that I say without offense, that I think neither of you have considered before. Hope you consider giving it a read as it's rather enlightening, and has enough evidence to possibly change your opinion on the matter.
I only have a high level understanding of this, but most of the editing happened in the First Council of Nicea assembled by Constantine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea#Role_of_Constantine