Fundamentalists and the Bible 03

That this is true, and not just someone meanly pushing their version of things is again testified to by the Bible itself. To see this, go to the Gospel of John, chapter 8, verses 3 through 11 for the woman caught in adultery, and ask yourself: If she was caught in adultery, there had to be a man to be adulterous with. Where is the man? More, why didn't Jesus ask where the man was?

Women aren't important in most of the Bible, only men. This is exactly one of the things the Fundamentalists today push, that as the Bible says, woman is subject to her husband or father, or male guardian. Shades of the Taliban.

Go to the first essay and see what many present day preachers and politicians say must be done for we are a nation of God. Kill the homosexuals just as the law of Moses says to do, as well as kill for many other silly reasons of our present day.

This Bible is not without error, period! It is error filled!

9 But they replied, 'Stand back!' And they said, 'This fellow came here as an alien, and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.' Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near the door to break it down.

10 But the men inside reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

11 And they struck with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they were unable to find the door.

Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed

12 Then the men said to Lot, 'Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city—bring them out of the place.

13 For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.'

14 So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, 'Up, get out of this place; for the Lord is about to destroy the city.' But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

How could they be sons-in-law if they were to marry his daughters? Since they weren't married yet, they could only be prospective sons-in-law. This is an error in the bible. *****

15 When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, 'Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be consumed in the punishment of the city.'

16 But he lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and left him outside the city.

After Lot knew the angels stopped the men from breaking in and seizing them, Lot still doesn't believe their power? He doesn't believe that they are supernatural?

17 When they had brought them outside, they said, 'Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed.'

18 And Lot said to them, 'Oh, no, my lords;

19 your servant has found favour with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life; but I cannot flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die.

Only Lot and his immediate family were saved? What about his servants, hired men, his herds and flocks? No word of them being warned, just Lot and his prospective sons-in-law. Does that seem right?

20 Look, that city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!'

21 He said to him, 'Very well, I grant you this favour too, and will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

22 Hurry, escape there, for I can do nothing until you arrive there.' Therefore the city was called Zoar.

23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulphur and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

25 and he overthew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

26 But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Okay, this is a staple of biblical belief, but it is an error nonetheless, this turning of Lot's wife into a pillar of salt. An error foolishly put in the Bible. *****

27 Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord;

28 and he looked down towards Sodom and Gomorrah and towards all the land of the Plain, and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

29 So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had settled.

The Shameful Origin of Moab and Ammon

30 Now Lot went up out of Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; so he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

31 And the firstborn said to the younger, 'Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the world.

32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.'

Not a man on earth, only their old father? It's not preserve our father's lineage, but have children, and no men on earth. Was it that they were so ugly that the men of Sodom rejected them in favor of men? Were there truly no men anywhere? What about Zoar, or other locations? This makes it seem as if the daughters were too anxious to have sex with someone, anyone. This is ludicrous, and obviously a story to make up the tribe of sinful Moabites and of the Ammonites as in verses 37 and 38 below. This is very obviously fictitious. An error in the Bible. *****

33 So they made their father drink wine that night; and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.

34 On the next day, the firstborn said to the younger, 'Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.'

35 So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger rose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.

36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab; he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day.

38 The younger also bore a son and named him Ben-ammi; he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day.

There are six (6) major errors in chapter 19 of Genesis.

Genesis 20

Abraham and Sarah at Gerar

1 From there Abraham journeyed towards the region of the Negeb, and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While residing in Gerar as an alien,

2 Abraham said of his wife Sarah, 'She is my sister.' And King Abimelech of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, 'You are about to die because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a married woman.'

4 Now Abimelech had not approached her; so he said, 'Lord, will you destroy an innocent people?

5 Did he not himself say to me, "She is my sister"? And she herself said, "He is my brother." I did this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.'

6 Then God said to him in the dream, 'Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; furthermore it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

7 Now then, return the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all that are yours.'

For the second time, Abraham pawns off his wife so another can have her sexually as he did with Pharaoh. This time, however, Abimelech is warned in a dream by God. Now why didn't God warn Pharaoh a forehand, who also thought she was only Abraham's sister?

Is this bad writing or what? Is this how a god would act? An error in the Bible for no reason is given for this second occurrence. *****

Also, Sarah, in chapter 17, verse 17, is said to be ninety (90) years old. Are we to believe again that she was still so beautiful that she was irresistible sexually? After ninety years of traveling and living in a harsh climate? That's too much to believe save for the gullible. This has to be an error in the Bible. *****

8 So Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants and told them all these things; and the men were very much afraid.

9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, 'What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that ought not to be done.'

10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, 'What were you thinking of, that you did this thing?'

11 Abraham said, 'I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

13 And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, "This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother." '

14 Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and restored his wife Sarah to him.

15 Abimelech said, 'My land is before you; settle where it pleases you.'

16 To Sarah he said, 'Look, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; it is your exoneration before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.'

17 Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

18 For the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Abraham and his army of people "in his house" that had just defeated armies of other nations, and his herds, all of whom are used to living off the land and in tents, go to a city where he will have to give up his wife to presumably preserve his life again. This stretches credulity, and must be an error in the Bible. *****

There are three (3) major errors in chapter 20 of Genesis.

Genesis 21

The Birth of Isaac

1 The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised.

2 Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him.

After her time had passed, she bears a son at ninety when her body has no eggs? The writers didn't know about the limits of eggs and how they were reabsorbed into the body, but surely they knew of menopause. Regardless, they give us a miracle that is unbelievable. Fundamentalists and some others will say this is possible, but if it is men who wrote the Bible, it is not possible, and men did write the Bible as we have seen already in the previous two essays, therefore this is an error in the Bible. *****

3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him.

4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6 Now Sarah said, 'God has brought laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.'

7 And she said, 'Who would ever have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.'

Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away

8 The child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

9 But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.

10 So she said to Abraham, 'Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac.'

11 The matter was very distressing to Abraham on account of his son.

12 But God said to Abraham, 'Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named after you.

13 As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, because he is your offspring.'

14 So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

15 When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the bushes.

16 Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, 'Do not let me look on the death of the child.' And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.

17 And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, 'What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

18 Come, lift up the boy and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make a great nation of him.'

19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.

20 God was with the boy, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow.

21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

What about food? Ishmael grows up and becomes an expert with a bow, and no mention of any man to teach this to him, nor act as a father. There is no mention of manna from heaven either, nor of how they survived the animals that preyed on anything or anyone that was available. This is pure fiction, and as such, it is an error in the Bible. *****

Abraham and Abimelech Make a Covenant

22 At that time Abimelech, with Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, 'God is with you in all that you do;

23 now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but as I have dealt loyally with you, you will deal with me and with the land where you have resided as an alien.'

24 And Abraham said, 'I swear it.'

25 When Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized,

26 Abimelech said, 'I do not know who has done this; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.'

27 So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

28 Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock.

29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, 'What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?'

30 He said, 'These seven ewe lambs you shall accept from my hand, in order that you may be a witness for me that I dug this well.'

31 Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there both of them swore an oath.

32 When they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech, with Phicol the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.

"The land of the Philistines" is an error in the Bible. Philistines were a sea people known historically in the time of Ramses III which was long after this time here. Why long after this time?

Isaac has yet to live out his life (the Bible says in chapter 35, verse 28) that he died at one hundred and eighty (180) years of age, and Jacob is said to have lived one hundred and forty-seven (147) years (chapter 48, verse 28), the last seventeen years in Egypt. The Israelites were said to live in Egypt for four hundred and thirty (430) years.

If, as Exodus, chapter 1, verse 11 says, that in their captivity they were to build the cities of Pithom and Raamses, then it was in the time of one of a Ramses: Ramses I or Ramses the II. Most believe it was Ramses II who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus (though that is highly in question and by none less than the bible itself).

The first mention of Philistines in history, and by the Egyptians, was in the time of Ramses III in about 1183 BCE which was well after Abraham's time. The Philistines were said to be a people of the sea, and one of about five (5) peoples that Ramses III fought and defeated when they sought to invade Egypt.

This means that the Philistines were unknown until they fought that battle with Ramses III, and that whoever wrote this part of Abraham's in "the land of the Philistines" had to live well after Abraham's days, and after Isaac and Jacob were long dead, and centuries later, even after Moses was said to lead them out of Egypt.

This is a huge error in the Bible that proves that it was written by man, and not God nor even Moses, and it is repeated many times after this. *****

33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

34 And Abraham resided as an alien for many days in the land of the Philistines.

Here is another error "...in the land of the Philistines". *****

There are four (4) major errors in chapter 21 of Genesis.

Genesis 22

The Command to Sacrifice Isaac

1 After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, 'Abraham!' And he said, 'Here I am.'

2 He said, 'Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt-offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.'

Note the most selective lack of questioning. He questioned whether or not Sodom and Gomorrah should be destroyed, but nary a word about killing his son for a burnt-offering. Unbelievable writing now that I look at it with a clear head.

3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; he cut the wood for the burnt-offering, and set out and went to the place in the distance that God had shown him.

4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far away.

5 Then Abraham said to his young men, 'Stay here with the donkey; the boy and I will go over there; we will worship, and then we will come back to you.'

6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.

7 Isaac said to his father Abraham, 'Father!' And he said, 'Here I am, my son.' He said, 'The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?'

8 Abraham said, 'God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son.' So the two of them walked on together.

9 When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

Another note: Isaac questions were the lamb for the burnt-offering is, but doesn't question that he is obviously to be the burnt-offering? More bad writing.

10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.

11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said, 'Abraham, Abraham!' And he said, 'Here I am.'

12 He said, 'Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.'

13 And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt-offering instead of his son.

14 So Abraham called that place 'The Lord will provide'; as it is said to this day, 'On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.'

15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

16 and said, 'By myself I have sworn, says the Lord: Because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,