After the death of King Solomon (d.928 BCE), his realm was divided into the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judea. The territory of the Kingdom of Israel covered most of the central and northern Land of Israel and was inhabited by descendants of ten of the original twelve tribes that conquered the land […]
Judiasm
Judaism/Origins/Beginnings – Marc A. Krell* (link)
http://www.patheos.com/Library/Judaism/Origins/Beginnings
The Bible is Wrong About Noah’s Ark and The Flood – The church of Truth
The Truth Is… We evolved, no one lived to be 600 years old. Case closed. ============================================================== But for the sake of poetic license, we’ll look at the story as though Noah could have been alive. In That Case, Consider This Within minutes of departing the Ark, every herbivore would be eaten by a carnivore. Soon […]
Virtually All of the Stories in the Torah are Ahistorical
(Sarah Lazarovic) “Virtually all of the stories in the Torah are ahistorical,” declares a manifesto posted in July on TheTorah.com. “Given the data to which modern historians have access,” the essay explains, “it is impossible to regard the accounts of mass Exodus from Egypt, the wilderness experience or the coordinated, swift, and complete conquest of the entire land […]
Exposing the Tanach/Old and New Testament – pdf
The Sin of Silence – William Edelen
There is a sin among a large segment of the Christian clergy that I find despicable. It is the sin of omission, the sin of silence. It is the sin of promoting falsehoods in order to hold your job. It is the sin of not sharing with a congregation what you know to be true […]
1-400 Various Expose of Unbelievable Fables and Biblical Nonsense*
1-400 Reasons 201-400 (201) The Santa Claus analogy Most young children are presented the story of Santa Claus as a fact of reality. They tend to believe this myth until their critical thinking skills compel them to become skeptical. The same thing happens when a Christian becomes an atheist, though in this case it requires […]
More Contradictions in the Torah – Maregaal
First and foremost a person should be intellectually honest with themselves when looking at the Torah and the Tanach. I say this for several reasons. The first reason is because the Torah, the one we have today, was not written by Moses. This is because the original Paleo-Hebrew Law “of” Moses was lost or […]
Genesis 3: God Screws up the World, Blames Man – Daniel Florien
This is the second part in the series An Evil God? The Bible’s Answer The Bible, like many myths, begins with answering how the world came to be and why it’s so screwed up. The Bible tells us that God created everything in six days. He created Adam out of dust, and Eve out of Adam’s […]
Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Jeremy R. Hammond
A proper understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires exposing numerous myths about its origins and the reasons it persists. Myth #1 – Jews and Arabs have always been in conflict in the region. Although Arabs were a majority in Palestine prior to the creation of the state of Israel, there had always been a Jewish […]