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Only Sky ✏ Reading the Bible is like an archaeological dig.

Adam Lee
The text we have today isn’t one book but many, written by different people from different cultures at different times. There’s no reason to expect that they all had exactly the same religious beliefs. As you read through them, you can notice the inconsistencies, like buried artifacts frozen in time.

There’s persistent speculation that some of the older parts of the Bible were written by ancient Hebrews who had a polytheistic belief system. They imagined Yahweh as one god among many, powerful but not omnipotent. They worshipped him as their tribe’s patron deity, but they didn’t deny that other people had gods of their own. (The technical term for this is monolatry or henotheism.)

Modern-day Jews and Christians wouldn’t admit this, of course. They’d say that the Bible is one coherent text, inspired by divine revelation to different people across the ages, but always conveying the same message. They’d say that there’s only one god, omniscient and omnipotent, and he faces no competition. Any claims to the contrary are demonic deceptions.
Iron chariots: God’s kryptonite?

However, there are some biblical verses that don’t fit with this smoothed-over modern theology. 

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How To Defeat God - Iron Chariots And Human Sacrifices

Hemant Mehta ✒ But don’t celebrate just yet.

The good news is that a record-low 20% of Americans believe the Bible is literally true, according to a Gallup poll released today, down from a record-high of 40% in 1984.

The bad news is that it feels like every single one of those people is in elected office somewhere…

The same poll saw an all-time high 29% of Americans correctly identifying the Bible as a collection of “fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man.” In 2017, the “Book of Myths” side outnumbered the “Literally True” side by a mere two percent—26% compared to 24%, respectively—but that difference has now jumped to 9%, suggesting a growing gap between Americans who live in a fantasy world and those who accept reality.

Meanwhile, roughly half of all Americans, 49%, believe the Bible is inspired by God but not meant to be taken literally. (Those people are what Creationists refer to as “heretics.”) Interestingly enough, that number has been fairly steady over the past few decades, so the growth of people rejecting the Bible as fact is either the result of people making a journey from Literally True to Inspired by God to Book of Myths… 

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Survey ✑ A Record-Low 20% Of Americans Say The Bible Is Literally True

Da Grym Reefer ✒ A Powerful Message About How People Use The Bible For Hypocrisy

 

Bible Hypocrisy

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