Bible Study Thread (Do not enter if you are a troll)

[Anwulika]

I particularly like the last verse:

6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Those who rely on God will always have Him there to guide them. To live a life without God's guidance and protection is to be spiritually blind.

 

[Rekorb]

Scriptures
2 Kings 19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah

Isaiah 37:9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah

When Taharqa was about 20 years old, he participated in a historic battle with the Assyrian Emperor, King Sennacherib at Eltekeh. At the request of Hezekiah King of Israel’s, Taharqa and the Egyptian/Kushyte army managed to stall the Assyrian advance on Jerusalem, the capital of Ancient Israel. In the bible he is called Tirhakah. He is one of the few Pharaoh’s mentioned in the bible.

2 Kings 19:35: That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning--there were all the dead bodies!

Historical documents shows the 'angel of the LORD' was actually the Egyptian army.

I find Jews will point out the the liberties and poetic license taken by the authors of the Old Testament authors, but Christians would actually take these verses literally.

@Chez Lopez Has some interesting points in the other Bible Study thread, but I'm interested in your opinions and do you cross reference with other sources. I find the Old Testament in general and the Pentateuch specifically can be hard to fully grasp because its been edited many times. Genesis is a mish mash of many legends and folk tales making far from cohesive and Deuteronomy has some pretty ambitious editing and revisions.


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[InfinateOpulance]

2 Kings 19:35: That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning--there were all the dead bodies!

Historical documents shows the 'angel of the LORD' was actually the Egyptian army.

I find Jews will point out the the liberties and poetic license taken by the authors of the Old Testament authors, but Christians would actually take these verses literally.

@Chez Lopez Has some interesting points in the other Bible Study thread, but I'm interested in your opinions and do you cross reference with other sources. I find the Old Testament in general and the Pentateuch specifically can be hard to fully grasp because its been edited many times. Genesis is a mish mash of many legends and folk tales making far from cohesive and Deuteronomy has some pretty ambitious editing and revisions.


@SonyaBlade @Chez Lopez @NightStone @the cac mamba
@m0rninggl0ry @Brown_Pride @timeless @LastDayze333DegreeDemigod @NoCones @the cac mamba @the cac mamba

I've actually been thinking about getting the Lost Books of the Bible. There seems to be things missing, and with so many different versions there's bound to be something that's been tampered with.

What is your opinion on the Lost Books of the Books of the Bible?

 

[Rekorb]

I've actually been thinking about getting the Lost Books of the Bible. There seems to be things missing, and with so many different versions there's bound to be something that's been tampered with.

What is your opinion on the Lost Books of the Books of the Bible?

The Book of Enoch lets you know Noah was an albino among other things, so you get additional information.

The word tampered simplifies things too much and is not a technical enough of a term. Once you start your studies you will learn of better classifications, and you will see tampered is too simple or too vague.

Also, you will learn about the findings regarding Canonical and non-Canonical books, and why certains were included in the Canon and others were left out. But you can certainly start by reading these additional works I listed below:




Biblical apocrypha ("hidden things") by Protestants,
Deuterocanon ("second canon") by Catholics, and
Deuterocanon or anagignoskomena ("worthy of reading") by Orthodox.

• Tobit
• Judith
• Additions to Esther
• Wisdom of Solomon
• Ecclesiasticus (Sirach)
• Baruch with the Letter of Jeremiah
• 1 Maccabees
• 2 Maccabees
• Additions to Daniel: 1. The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, 2. Story of Susanna, 3. Bel and the Dragon

These books, which were largely written during the Intertestamental period.
These are works recognized by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox Churches as being part of scripture (and thus deuterocanonical rather than apocryphal), but Protestants do not recognize them as divinely inspired. Orthodox differentiate scriptural books by omitting these (and others) from corporate worship and from use as a sole basis for doctrine.


Eastern Orthodox
Additional books accepted by the Eastern Orthodox:

• 1 Esdras/3 Esdras
• 2 Esdras/4 Esdras (in an appendix to the Slavonic Bible)
• Prayer of Manasseh
• 3 Maccabees
• 4 Maccabees (in an appendix to the Greek Bible)
• Psalm 151 (in the Septuagint)
• Odes

Syrian Orthodox
Additional books accepted by the Syrian Orthodox (due to inclusion in the Peshytta):

• 2 Baruch with the Letter of Baruch (only the letter has achieved canonical status)
• Psalms 152–155 (not canonical)

Ethiopian Orthodox
The Ethiopian Tewahedo church accepts all of the deuterocanonical books of Catholicism and anagignoskomena of Eastern Orthodoxy except for the four Books of Maccabees. It accepts the 39 protocanonical books along with the following books, called the "narrow canon". The enumeration of books in the Ethiopic Bible varies greatly between different authorities and printings.

• 4 Baruch or the Paralipomena of Jeremiah
• 1 Enoch
• Jubilees
• 1 Meqabyan
• 2 Meqabyan
• 3 Meqabyan

Books of the Bible - Wikipedia

@Chez Lopez @NightStone @the cac mamba
@m0rninggl0ry @Brown_Pride @timeless @LastDayze333DegreeDemigod @NoCones @the cac mamba @the cac mamba

 

[the cac mamba]

The Book of Enoch lets you know Noah was an albino among other things]

i wont lie to you breh, i dont believe in this bullshyt

i dont believe a jewish zombie is sitting in the clouds with his dad watching everything i do. and even if hes real, i dont fear him any more than an eskimo. so fukk the abrahamic god. and especially if he's real, for watching all this pain and destruction and just sitting on his ass

 

[Rekorb]

i wont lie to you breh, i dont believe in this bullshyt

i dont believe a jewish zombie is sitting in the clouds with his dad watching everything i do. and even if hes real, i dont fear him any more than an eskimo. so fukk the abrahamic god. and especially if he's real, for watching all this pain and destruction and just sitting on his ass

I know you are suffering. I feel your pain.

 

[the cac mamba]

I know you are suffering. I feel your pain.

if im "suffering", then God should tell me what he';s doing to the children he's starving to death

 

[Rekorb]

if im "suffering", then God should tell me what he';s doing to the children he's starving to death

We all have the opportunity to do God's work, I don't want to derail this thread. Send me a PM.

 

[Rekorb]

@SonyaBlade

Books of the Bible can be considered:

• Canonical
• Non-Canonical
• Protocanonical
• Deuterocanonical
• Apocrypha

The Lost Books of the Bible are considered:

• Pseudepigrapha (the named author did not write it, so the author is unknown)

 

[InfinateOpulance]

@SonyaBlade

Books of the Bible can be considered:

• Canonical
• Non-Canonical
• Protocanonical
• Deuterocanonical
• Apocrypha

The Lost Books of the Bible are considered:

• Pseudepigrapha (the named author did not write it, so the author is unknown)

When I get some free time I'm definitely going to check these writings out. Thanks so much for the mentions and the info.
Have you read any of them???

 

[Rekorb]

When I get some free time I'm definitely going to check these writings out. Thanks so much for the mentions and the info.
Have you read any of them???

No, I just skimmed them and read the commentaries.

Time is an issue for me also.

But you understand why pseudepigripha is treated the way it is compared to the other books of the Bible.

 

[Althalucian]

Are black people more or less served by accepting Christianity? I've always thought it was a feel good dead-end for black people.

 

[InfinateOpulance]

No, I just skimmed them and read the commentaries.

Time is an issue for me also.

But you understand why pseudepigripha is treated the way it is compared to the other books of the Bible.

No, why?

All I know is that a lot of religious folks are not open to the fact that there may be things purposely taken out of of the Bible, for political agendas and for oppressing certain groups of people. But I'm starting to think this is a possibility.

 

[InfinateOpulance]

The Book of Enoch lets you know Noah was an albino among other things, so you get additional information.

The word tampered simplifies things too much and is not a technical enough of a term. Once you start your studies you will learn of better classifications, and you will see tampered is too simple or too vague.

Also, you will learn about the findings regarding Canonical and non-Canonical books, and why certains were included in the Canon and others were left out. But you can certainly start by reading these additional works I listed below:




Biblical apocrypha ("hidden things") by Protestants,
Deuterocanon ("second canon") by Catholics, and
Deuterocanon or anagignoskomena ("worthy of reading") by Orthodox.

• Tobit
• Judith
• Additions to Esther
• Wisdom of Solomon
• Ecclesiasticus (Sirach)
• Baruch with the Letter of Jeremiah
• 1 Maccabees
• 2 Maccabees
• Additions to Daniel: 1. The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, 2. Story of Susanna, 3. Bel and the Dragon

These books, which were largely written during the Intertestamental period.
These are works recognized by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox Churches as being part of scripture (and thus deuterocanonical rather than apocryphal), but Protestants do not recognize them as divinely inspired. Orthodox differentiate scriptural books by omitting these (and others) from corporate worship and from use as a sole basis for doctrine.


Eastern Orthodox
Additional books accepted by the Eastern Orthodox:

• 1 Esdras/3 Esdras
• 2 Esdras/4 Esdras (in an appendix to the Slavonic Bible)
• Prayer of Manasseh
• 3 Maccabees
• 4 Maccabees (in an appendix to the Greek Bible)
• Psalm 151 (in the Septuagint)
• Odes

Syrian Orthodox
Additional books accepted by the Syrian Orthodox (due to inclusion in the Peshytta):

• 2 Baruch with the Letter of Baruch (only the letter has achieved canonical status)
• Psalms 152–155 (not canonical)

Ethiopian Orthodox
The Ethiopian Tewahedo church accepts all of the deuterocanonical books of Catholicism and anagignoskomena of Eastern Orthodoxy except for the four Books of Maccabees. It accepts the 39 protocanonical books along with the following books, called the "narrow canon". The enumeration of books in the Ethiopic Bible varies greatly between different authorities and printings.

• 4 Baruch or the Paralipomena of Jeremiah
• 1 Enoch
• Jubilees
• 1 Meqabyan
• 2 Meqabyan
• 3 Meqabyan

Books of the Bible - Wikipedia

@Chez Lopez @NightStone @the cac mamba
@m0rninggl0ry @Brown_Pride @timeless @LastDayze333DegreeDemigod @NoCones @the cac mamba @the cac mamba

I wonder if any of these books talk about the nephilum???
What are your thoughts on that?

 

[TransJenner]

if im "suffering", then God should tell me what he';s doing to the children he's starving to death

Well are you gonna do something about it ?
Exactly