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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
 Posted - 06/08/2004 : 06:56:00
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Poll Question:
How much of the Bible have you read? Any version (or make it a sort of "total" of all the versions you've read).
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| None of it |
 [7%] |
10 votes |
| Bits and pieces here and there |
[29%] |
41 votes |
| Just Genesis |
[1%] |
2 votes |
| Just the Gospels |
[1%] |
2 votes |
| Half or more |
[27%] |
38 votes |
| All of it |
[12%] |
17 votes |
| All of it, more than once |
[22%] |
32 votes |
| All of it, in multiple languages |
[1%] |
1 vote |
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Poll Status:
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Total Votes: 143 counted »» |
Last Vote:
04/12/2005 08:39:57 |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2004 : 07:19:52 [Permalink]
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I find the Bible an interesting read, but I've not studied it in any sort of a serious way. A while back, I was thinking of picking it up again, but I've misplaced my copy. Also, I often find the commentary here and eleswhere to be most instructive.
I'll get another copy courtesy of the Gideon Society the very next time I stay in a motel that doesn't have an hourly rate. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2004 : 08:01:51 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
How much of the Bible have you read? Any version (or make it a sort of "total" of all the versions you've read).
I've read Genesis (in the original), plus various other parts of the so-called OT, some in the original and some in English. For the NT I've mostly just read the Gospels and parts of Revelation, all in English.
Some of the reading-- plarticularly the narrative in 2 Sam about David and certain parts of the Gospels-- is fairly entertaining. Other parts-- say, the various presentations of law codes, or Paul's ranting in some of the NT-- is just plain dull. |
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2004 : 08:18:25 [Permalink]
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| It was the only book my paternal grandfather felt was worth reading. When I first had questions about religion, I figured I'd better read the whole thing. I wondered why my grandfathers bible had different books in it than my maternal grandmothers bible. Of course, I grew up with the story about how grandma was told to return the bible she'd bought and replace it with one that only had the NT, this was pre-Vatican II. |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
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"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
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Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2004 : 10:33:19 [Permalink]
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| I've read the KJV of the Bible seven times. I have re-read sections in response to arguements made by fundies which I know (from the previous reads) to be out of context or flat out wrong. |
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
1278 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2004 : 13:02:20 [Permalink]
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| I've read most of the bible in the dutch "state translation" (seen as the dutch KJV by most christians there) and parts in more modern translation (mostly if I couldn't figure out the meaning in the first). I am now reading in the KJV regularly. Off the KJV I read on the hand of passages pointed out to me by christians if they try to make a point. |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2004 : 01:00:20 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Cuneiformist
I've read Genesis (in the original)
What is the "original" language? |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2004 : 06:14:11 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
quote:
Originally posted by Cuneiformist
I've read Genesis (in the original)
What is the "original" language?
For most of the OT, the original is Hebrew. There are some parts in Aramaic-- Daniel, I think, plus a few other books (or, perhaps, parts of other books). I can't say too much about the NT but I think most-- if not all-- was originally written in Greek. |
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Renae
SFN Regular
543 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2004 : 06:20:53 [Permalink]
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None. If there's a more boring book on the planet, I don't know what it is.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2004 : 07:27:11 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Renae
None. If there's a more boring book on the planet, I don't know what it is.
Yeh, it's a little slow going in many places and lacks a lot of credability in many others. But it does give some insite, albeit a bit blurred from all the translations and revisions, into how the people of the place and era lived. If you go at it in the right frame of mind, it's interesting.
Take a modest glass of whiskey, a mild toke, and try 'er again. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2004 : 18:26:25 [Permalink]
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I usually leaf through the King James version of the Bible at random. Reading it is a big bore. I have yet to find pages which did not have some terrible happenings going on - rapes, pillages, killings, etc. You name it; the Bible has it!
I have never been religious, although I was forced by my family to attend church services. I never believed in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, et al. My maternal grandmother made me sit down every week after church in front of a window overlooking a playground across the street from our house. I had to stay there, bored, and watching all of the other children playing to their hearts' content. Far from making me religious, it made me more of a nonbeliever than I was before.
I learned the "Pledge of Allegiance before the silly "under God" was added by Congressmen and Congresswomen. When I was reciting the Pledge much later and was saying "indivisible" when everyone else was saying "under God," I had great difficulty stifling a laugh--all the time thinking about the silly folks who put that into the Pledge.
Since then, I have tried to keep myself away from events which might force somebody's preposterous beliefs upon me.
ljbrs |
"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds."
Giordano Bruno
(Burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church Inquisition in 1600) |
| Edited by - ljbrs on 06/09/2004 18:32:14 |
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Woody D
Skeptic Friend
Thailand
285 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2004 : 23:35:34 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
How much of the Bible have you read? Any version (or make it a sort of "total" of all the versions you've read).
This site is beggining to really suck....sorry.
Not only can I not get back to various folders easily that I've posted in, in order to read later posts, because I get automaticly logged on but now it didn't record my vote in this folder.
It's a conspiricy I tells you. A conspiricery.
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Terryt88
Skeptic Friend
USA
120 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2004 : 22:09:20 [Permalink]
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Another good poll would be "What's your favorite translation."
I tried to be a real man on my first try with the good Ole King James. Yeah that just didn't work out.
Boron10 introduced me to the international which was a little easier to swallow.
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2004 : 12:16:29 [Permalink]
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When I was a little girl we used to play this game at slumber parties called "Secret". We all sat in a circle. One person thought of a secret and whispered it into the ear of the person next to them who then whispered it into the ear of her neighbor, and so on, until it returned to the teller. That person then stated aloud what had just been said to them... AND what they originally said. The two statements were almost always dramatically different. This happens to the Bible every time a new version is created. Whatever God wanted to say to the world isn't in there anymore. That would bother me a lot more if I believed in God...  |
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz
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Deborah
Skeptic Friend
USA
113 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2004 : 17:53:22 [Permalink]
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| Don't ask me to quote it though. ;-) |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 08/07/2004 : 19:49:51 [Permalink]
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| I keep reading more and more. Every time I hear some nonsense about either how wonderful god is supposed to be or how this or that is cited in the Bible, I go see what it really says. Quite an eye-opener. Peoples' belief about what it says and what it really says are incredibly different. |
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