7 Humans have control over every kind of wild animal, bird, reptile, and fish, and they have controlled all these things.
LOL, sharp learning curve ahead. I thought humans wanting control was how we ended up with the A&E story, the Tower of Babel, etc.
22 Wives, place yourselves under your husbands’ authority as you have placed yourselves under the Lord’s authority. 23 The husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church.
I automatically tune out any human gathering that has the audacity to tell God whom He may or may not call to service. If He wants a lesbian nonwhite trans woman to be a pope, He should be able to make that call. I mean, this verse is just stupid. The "head" often has bugs in it. If your body part causes you to sin ....
9 Bid slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to be refractory,
Again, this has less to do with God than keeping a human political status quo.
13 If you are always trying to do good, no one can really harm you.
Only in some vague metaphorical sense. "No good deed goes unpunished", after all, LOL.
1 Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
Then admit you're gay, Paul.
A woman should learn while listening quietly and being completely willing to obey.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
To reiterate: I do not consider the bible the "Word of God". It is more like "Word of People Thinking Occasionally About God". God and Jesus probably don't even take up half Their respective testaments. They come in for the arbitrary cameos and that's it. The majority of the stories are about humans and their crap. The bible is useful if you like stories in general, but there are more consistent moral texts out there.
The scientists of Isaiah’s day didn’t know the topography of the earth, but Isaiah said, “It is [God] that sitteth upon the circle of the earth” (
Isaiah 40:22).
From what I understand, Greeks used shadows to conclude the spherical nature of the planet. My question is, if the Holy Spirit can tell someone the Earth is "circular", why not make pi more accurate?
After the interpretation, “Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.” (
Daniel 5:29). Basing their opinion on Babylonian records, the historians claim this never happened.
That's because even if you find a king's list, it doesn't prove a story more fitting for a horror movie than reality. You could also probably write the mentioned warning in oil on the wall prior to the party and then when they used lamps and such for illumination the words just sort of "appear" as if by magic.
Ancients knew how to make secret messages
I mean, my brother and I loved to play with "invisible coloring books" when we were kids. It's not that hard.
Third, from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reads as one book.
Only if you are willing to suggest that it becomes absurdly inconsistent in tone, theme, characterization, plot, settings, etc.
I mean, Jesus calls certain people foolish while saying people who use the slur "fools" will go to hell. Jesus can't even remember his own thoughts, THAT'S how inconsistent it is.
Fourth, did you know the Bible is the only book in the world that has accurate prophecy?
I dunno. There was this prophecy that while a kid and a villain each existed, neither could survive. Turned out to be fairly accurate.
First Peter 1:25 says: “But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”
Which is why we have so many "lost" texts?