Bible Characters Quiz #1

You got proof for that claim?

All of the Bible is true. Prophecies panned out exactly as expected, and there's historical accounts of all of this

Technically, a tomato is a fruit.

@slugcharger, I'm not sure exactly what it is you're referring to but after an event has happened you can look through anything and make some case for it having been predicted beforehand. The bible doesn't say "in 1798 the pope will be imprisoned following the French revolution and Catholicism will lose much of its power, making atheism rise". It makes generalistic and (on the face of things) meaningless predictions. In 1400 they didn't know that this would happen in 1798. Someone looked at it afterwards and made it add up. @Fiddley, the celestial teapot is a concept made in rebuttal to some arguments about God. The idea is that there is a small teapot orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. It is too small to be picked up by any telescope we have at the moment, so you can't prove it doesn't exist. Like God, that isn't a good enough argument for its existence. @cr, prophecies in the Bible didn't actually all happen. The Messiah was prophecised to be born in Bethlehem, but Jesus wasn't

actually born in Bethlehem. Of the Gospel writers, one expressed surprise that Jesus was not born in Bethlehem, one doesn't mention it at all, Matthew decided that Mary and Joseph must have lived in Bethlehem when Jesus was born, and only Luke fabricated the "Christmas Story", which doesn't fit with actual history and is completely implausible. There is plenty of internal contradiction in the Bible which is why it cannot all be true.

@Landis not sure if you're talking to me or @Jamesgoat but either way:

1. That depends on what you mean by opinion

2. Whatever you mean by opinion, that doesn't refute the point.

Well, it's my opinion in the sense that it's what I think. It is also completely true. Did it not help you work out why the Bible might not be true? You did ask for a response. And I thought mine was relatively unopinionated.

Oh sorry - different slugs. But the fact that my response was not opinionated remains correct.

@slugarmy - I mean, but like, trolling.

Technically He was born in Bethlehem. Mary was born in Nazareth, and Jesus lived the most of His childhood in Nazareth, since He went back from Egypt, until the move to Capernaum on the start of His public life.

Well, the authors and compilers of the biblical traditions very well believed these events to be true, so calling it "fiction" is a bit of an oversimplification of the facts, if it is a fabricated story. (And I'm not saying it is)

a leviathan perhaps?

Presumably, you're referencing Leviticus 11:13 and 19 ('And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture...the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat').The word 'birds' there is literally עוֹף, meaning 'winged creatures' in Hebrew. The concept of a bird didn't exist in Hebrew culture until well after the alleged Biblical time of this event.

Right. They were not exactly at the vanguard of phylogenetics. If they don't understand the difference between birds and bats, then why get hung up on whether some fairy tale involves a man living inside a fish or a whale. Do you think the Hebrews knew what the difference was? Do you think they knew what a mammal was? It seems pointless to me to argue about this.

I'm not hung up on the details of fairy tales, I'm responding to people who are because they are trying to argue the point. I have never once in my life seen or heard someone say "Jonah was swallowed by a fish" OR "Jonah was swallowed by a whale" and then stepped in and said "actually.. that's not true." ... and I would never. Is this the reason why you are stalking me around the site leaving juvenile attacks aimed at me? Because you believe in fairy tales that I don't?

Another dude swallowed by a whale who had the misfortune of being in a fictional story other than the Bible, and is therefore not as famous or well regarded.

roleybob: yeah you're right. Also, Italy is a real place. ergo, by Christian logic, that proves Geppetto and Pinocchio were real people, too.

And following your logic, every Biblical character who ever went to Italy, is real. I’ve also seen the book that they are there, proving they are also real.

MG: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasmo

At least you have putted a link in Portuguese. Never thought you or anyone else would make me happy by a single link! My day is now better ;)

That too. It's like John vs Juan.

Nope, you don't get it at all. Not even close. Not even remotely close. I'll keep commenting until you DO get it, okay? So try again.

^ yeah that's obvious. And I have.

Also not even close. A person who makes truthful, honest, sincere and factual comments, like those I've made here, is not a troll. It's not my fault if some people have such fragile and delicate beliefs that they can't handle any comment they even suspect might be critical of those beliefs.

You believe a man lived inside of a fish for over three days. And if I say this is not plausible... I'm being deliberately offensive?

Let that sink in.

I'm only speaking to the handful of Christians responding to my comment. But yes, clearly, the Bible is not literally true. Whether you want to call it allegory, fable, myth, a tall tale, greatly embellished historical fiction, or simply fabrication- it's still not true in a literal and objective sense of the word. But that doesn't change the fact that millions if not billions of people through the years have taken it as literal truth, including at least a couple commenting above, and all of those who get into arguments about whether Jonah was living inside a fish or a whale as if it matters.

@Isa Just because something could be taken as offensive that doesn't mean it actually is offensive. Virtually anything will offend somebody. If we're not supposed to state opinions about the Bible then why did you comment?

...if she was all dead then all that would be left to do would be to go through her pockets and check for loose change.