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The ones that lie, hate, and kill...
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by Murgatroid
The ones that lie, hate, and kill...
There's a lot of religions that have done that. And Christianity is one of them.
and not just religion.
Atheist believers have killed more than all religions combined.
The best and most authorative teacher of the Creation account is and has been Kent Hovind.
Just the mention of his name gets the fundy atheists frothing at the mouth and flagellating.
To see an atheists response indicates their confusion and self doubt of their faith.
Originally posted by itsthetooth
There may be several things that are taken out of context regarding the theory of creation. As an example, genesis to me appears to be more the documentation of an alien abduction then of a creation to me. One thing is clear in the bible for sure, earth is not our home and that can't be taken any other way. When god created us in his image, it often strikes me as the entire bible being a book of genocide and referring to how we were genetically made, or altered.
Originally posted by itsthetooth
Perhaps the largest problem with acceptance of the bible is that its listed in a section called "supernatural." We have no other book in this section, and it can't be compared to fiction, sci-fi, fantasy or anything else we have. Things that are supernatural aren't bound to the limitations of science, therefore it becomes impossible to test or prove or disprove the events.
Originally posted by ExNihilo
God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night,
on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the
sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). 1:3-5
Originally posted by ExNihilo
God spends one-sixth of his entire creative effort (the second day)
working on a solid firmament. This strange structure, which God calls
heaven, is intended to separate the higher waters from the lower waters.
This firmament, if it existed, would have been quite an obstacle to our
space program. 1:6-8
Originally posted by ExNihilo
Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their
photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). 1:11
Originally posted by ExNihilo
"He made the stars also." God spends a day making light (before making
the stars) and separating light from darkness; then, at the end of a
hard day's work, and almost as an afterthought, he makes the trillions
of stars. 1:16
Originally posted by ExNihilo
"And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth." Really? Then why are only a tiny fraction of stars visible from
earth? Under the best conditions, no more than five thousand stars are
visible from earth with the unaided eye, yet there are hundreds of
billions of stars in our galaxy and a hundred billion or so galaxies.
Yet this verse says that God put the stars in the firmament "to give
light" to the earth. 1:17
Originally posted by spy66
reply to post by Leahn
The firmament is actually very well described in the Bible from verse 6. And is very related to verse 3.
Originally posted by Leahn
Originally posted by spy66
reply to post by Leahn
The firmament is actually very well described in the Bible from verse 6. And is very related to verse 3.
Really? Then describe its properties to me. Did it have color? What was its density? What is a coloid? A gas? A solid? Because the whole description provided in the verse 6 is a single word translated to English as "expanse".
I would not call that "very well described."
God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night,
on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the
sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). 1:3-5
Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their
photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). 1:11
"He made the stars also." God spends a day making light (before making
the stars) and separating light from darkness; then, at the end of a
hard day's work, and almost as an afterthought, he makes the trillions
of stars. 1:16
"And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth." Really? Then why are only a tiny fraction of stars visible from
earth? Under the best conditions, no more than five thousand stars are
visible from earth with the unaided eye, yet there are hundreds of
billions of stars in our galaxy and a hundred billion or so galaxies.
Yet this verse says that God put the stars in the firmament "to give
light" to the earth. 1:17
God commands us to "be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth,
and subdue it: and have dominion over ... every living thing that moveth
upon the earth." This verse is used to justify Christian opposition to
birth control, to concern for the environment, and to animal rights. The
earth was made for humans, and they can do as they damn well please with
it. 1:28
since this is what he built us for.
multiply, and replenish the earth,
and subdue it: and have dominion over
All animals were originally herbivores. Tapeworms, vampire bats,
mosquitoes, and barracudas -- all were strict vegetarians, as they were
created by God.But, of course, we now know that there were carnivorous
animals millions of years before humans existed.
1:30
God makes the animals and parades them before Adam to see if any would
strike his fancy. But none seem to have what it takes to please him.
(Although he was tempted to go for the sheep.) After making the animals,
God has Adam name them all. The naming of several million species must
have kept Adam busy for a while. 2:18-20
excerpt from the book of Ignorimus. Ch2 v9999999
adam: "hey you!"
all the animals: "yes master!!"
adam: "no the big one"
all the giant animals: "yes!"
adam: "the one with the sharp claws"
all the giant animals w/claws: "how may we be of service"
adam: "*#^&$, never mind i'll do it my self"
God's clever, talking serpent. 3:1
God walks and talks (to himself?) in the garden, and plays a little hide
and seek with Adam and Eve. 3:8-11
God curses the serpent. From now on the serpent will crawl on his belly
and eat dust. One wonders how he got around before -- by hopping on his
tail, perhaps? But snakes don't eat dust, do they? 3:14
God curses the ground and causes thorns and thistles to grow. 3:17-18
God kills some animals and makes some skin coats for Adam and Eve. 3:21
Cain is worried after killing Abel and says, "Every one who finds me
shall slay me." This is a strange concern since there were only two
other humans alive at the time -- his parents! 4:14
he probably knew that his parents would bare more children, which is what he was thinking and knew that repercussions would most likely come.
and he couldn't kill his parents, that wasn't an option either. *seriously!*
"And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD." 4:16
what's the question?
"And Cain knew his wife." That's nice, but where the hell did she come
from? 4:17
see the second question up from here regarding his parents getting it on.
Lamech kills a man and claims that since Cain's murderer would be
punished sevenfold, whoever murders him will be punished seventy-seven
fold. That sounds fair. 4:23-24
The first men had incredibly long lifespans. 5:5, 5:8, 5:11, 5:14, 5:17,
5:20, 5:23, 5:27, 5:31, 9:29
The "sons of God" copulated with the "daughters of men," and had sons
who became "the mighty men of old, men of renown." 6:2-4
"There were giants in the earth in those days." 6:4
God decides to kill all living things because the human imagination is
evil. Later (8:21), after he kills everything, he promises never to do
it again because the human imagination is evil. Go figure. 6:5
God repents. 6:6-7
God was angry because "the earth was filled with violence." But didn't
God create the whole bloody system in the first place? Predator and
prey, parasite and host -- weren't they all designed by God? Oh, it's
true that according to 1:30 God originally intended the animals to be
vegetarian. But later (3:18)
he changed all that. Still, the violence
that angered God was of his own making. So what was he upset about? And
how would killing everything help to make the world less violent? Did he
think the animals would behave better after he "destroys them with the
earth"? I guess God works in mysterious ways. 6:11-13
He wanted a clean slate, he knew that animals would behave as they do know, but animals kill other animals *us included* out of necessity*
we kill everything due to negligence, greed, envy, and a lot of other reasons. Most of which GOD considers unrighteous.
God tells Noah to make one small window (18 inches square) in the 450
foot ark for ventilation. 6:16
Noah, the just and righteous. 6:9, 7:1
Noah, the drunk and naked. 9:20-21
God opens the "windows of heaven." He does this every time it rains.
7:11
"The windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained." This happens whenever it stops raining. 8:2
Noah sends a dove out to see if there was any dry land. But the dove
returns without finding any. Then, just seven days later, the dove goes
out again and returns with an olive leaf. But how could an olive tree
survive the flood? And if any seeds happened to survive, they certainly
wouldn't germinate and grow leaves within a seven day period. 8:8-11
Noah kills the "clean beasts" and burns their dead bodies for God.
According to 7:8 this would have caused the extinction of all "clean"
animals since only two of each were taken onto the ark. "And the Lord
smelled a sweet savor." After this God "said in his heart" that he'd
never do it again because "man's heart is evil from his youth."
So God killed all living things (6:5) because humans are evil, and then
promises not to do it again (8:21) because humans are evil. The mind of
God is a frightening thing. 8:20-21
According to this verse, all animals fear humans. Although it is true
that many do, it is also true that some do not. Sharks and grizzly
bears, for example, are generally much less afraid of us than we are of
them. 9:2
"Into your hand are they (the animals) delivered." God gave the animals
to humans, and they can do whatever they please with them. This verse
has been used by bible believers to justify all kinds of cruelty to
anmials and environmental destruction. 9:2
All animals have hands. 9:5
*Strongs Numbers*
3027 yad yawd a primitive word; a hand
(the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
in distinction from 3709, the closed one);
used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications,
both literally and figuratively,
both proximate and remote (as follows):--(+ be) able, X about,
+ armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty,
+ broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate,
+ creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship,
force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in,
labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine,
ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance,
X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously,
service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength,
stroke, + swear, terror, X thee,
X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou,
through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under,
X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with
(him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
"Be ye fruitful, and multiply." With 6 billion people on this planet, we
need to disobey God on this one. 9:7
God is rightly filled with remorse for having killed his creatures. He
makes a deal with the animals, promising never to drown them all again.
He even puts the rainbow in the sky so that whenever he sees it, it will
remind him of his promise so that he won't be tempted to do it again.
(Every time God sees the rainbow he says to himself: "Oh, yeah....
That's right. I promised not to drown the animals again. I guess I'll
have to find something else to do."). 9:9-13
God worries that people could actually build a tower high enough to
reach him (them?) in heaven. 11:4