Isaiah walks around naked for 3 years
Lots daughters have sex with him
A wall falls on 27,000 Aramean soldiers
Adam and God search the animals for a partner for Adam
Zombies wander the streets of Jerusalem after the resurrection
David and the "evil spirit from God"
(1 Sam 16:23 NRSV) And whenever the *evil spirit from God* came upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand, and Saul would be relieved and feel better, and the evil spirit would depart from him.
Isaiah, one of the great prophets of the bible, is said to have walked around naked for three years.
(Isa 20:3 NRSV) Then the LORD said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has walked *naked and barefoot* for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Ethiopia,
The daughters of Lot supposedly trick their father into having sex with both of them by getting him drunk twice.
(Gen 19:31-35 NRSV) 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.
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father."
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.
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."
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.
The bible claims that a wall fell on 27,000 Aramean soldiers.
(1 Ki 20:28 NRSV) …therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD."
(1 Ki 20:29 NRSV) They encamped opposite one another seven days. Then on the seventh day the battle began; the Israelites killed one hundred thousand Aramean foot soldiers in one day.
(1 Ki 20:30 NRSV) The rest fled into the city of Aphek; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men that were left. …
In the bible, out of all of the animals of the earth God and Adam searched and couldn’t find a "partner" for Adam.
(Gen 2:20-21 NRSV) The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner. So the LORD God caused…
Solomon’s temple is exaggerated.
It was 90 ft long, 30 ft wide, and 45 ft high (1 Ki 6:2)
About twice the cubic footage of an average 2 story house.
For a small structure It took 183,300 men 7 years to build it. (1 Kings 5:13-16)(1 Kings 6:38)
Into it supposedly went 9,200,000 lbs of Gold and 92,000,000 lbs of Silver. (1 Chron 22:14)
Note: Archaeologists can’t find it anywhere…
The bible says that "zombies" arose and walked around the streets of Jerusalem after the resurrection.
(Mat 27:50 NRSV) Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last.
(Mat 27:52 NRSV) The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.
(Apparently they just sat there for 3 days until after the resurrection)
(Mat 27:53 NRSV) After his resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared to many.
Many saints come out of the tombs and entered the city and appeared to many. How were they recognized? Why did they have no effect upon society and make names for themselves thereafter? Imagine if Abraham Lincoln and all deceased presidents suddenly reappeared in modern society. Wouldn’t someone make at least some mention of them? Also, were these saints naked when they arose? Did their number include women, or did women saints come later? Hmmm. Such a traumatic, earth-shattering event to blow over so lightly.
My comment is on Exodus 21:22 where it mentions that if a pregnent woman is injured and the baby dies then a fine shall be paid to the husband. It seems as though wives and children alike are viewed as chattle. According to most Christians babies that die will automatically go to heaven. How can it be argued then by these Christians that it is not better for these babies to go directly to heaven and bypass the horrors and pain of life on earth? Also doesn’t this insure that these babies will not go to hell? If these babies are born they might grow up without being saved(from God who is the danger). If they are sent to heaven before they are born aren’t they better off?
For the one about 1 Kings 6:2-
In 2 Kings 25:13-16, after the fall of Jerusalem, it says that the Babylonians stripped the temple of it’s articles. There’s the answer to your question about where At least, much of gold and silver went. It again talks about it in 2 Chronicles 36:18,19.
The problem isn’t where the gold and silver went. It’s the ridiculous amounts of gold and silver the bible claims went into it (4600 tons of gold and 46,000 tons of silver) and the ridiculous amount of man hours (5 billion) the bible claims to build a building about the size of two large houses.
Capella
In 1 Chronicles 22:14 it states that the David took great pains to provide all the materials needed for the temples. Therefore, a great amount of the people working weren’t even at the temple, but were gathering the materials. Lifting and moving all the materials was what probably took so many men.
As for the incredible amounts of gold and silver and the small space of the temple, I remain silent, since I don’t know enough about those things.
I realize that the Bible has some mysteries. For some, we will never find the answer, but there are mysteries everywhere and sometimes we just need to accept that we don’t know, and hold on to our faith. A few tiny faults in the Bible aren’t going to destroy my trust in God, who has provided me with tons of evidence, enough for me to believe.
Fine, but some people need a little bit more, especially when stories such as the building of Solomon’s temple and so many others in the Bible are so obviously ridiculous, erroneous, contradictory, unjust, or just plain gruesome as in the genocides of all of the men, women, and children of Canaan by Moses and Joshua or Kind David bringing back 100 foreskins of soldiers he’s killed to Saul so he can get engaged for examples.
Oh Jim L.
TINY faults in the Bible? Have you read it?
If you want to hear that Lot story, just go to the public defenders office. Every single child molester uses this same old excuse–blame the victim. That’s one of the least plausible stories in there.
What the Lot family did was far worse than the dwellers of the cities. Of course, incest was a favorite pastime in the OT and fully approved of by good ole twisted yahweh. Maybe that is why the bible is such an awful book. It was written by inbred retards.