Unspoken of by Sunday school teachers, preachers and Bible scholars in general are the various X-rated stories that appear throughout the Old Testament. Like they do with Ezekiel’s description of an alien space craft landing, the teachers tend to ignore or gloss over the stories, perhaps pretending (or wishing) they did not exist. Some of the stories are raunchy enough to appear in contemporary pornographic literature. Click For More

Contemporary Bible scholars like to think Moses may have had a lot to do with writing the Book of Genesis. That book, the first in the Bible, is the key ingredient to the Christian belief in the origin of man and his fall into sin, thus making him dependent on blood sacrifice to achieve atonement. It is all there in the first chapters of Genesis. The story has been used to keep humanity in a state of mental enslavement for as long as anyone can remember. It is a terrible belief system culled from a book with origins dating back into the fog of antiquity. More . . .

The fundamental Christians say they believe the Bible is "God’s Word" and because of this, they accept everything it says as "God’s Holy Word" and therefore it must be true. But then they have problems explaining a lot of inconsistencies that begin piling up right from the first Book of Genesis. The creation of humans is a hum-dinger for starters. Click For Story

The story of God’s creation of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis is so full of biological holes it is difficult to find a point for a challenger to the story to start. The archaeological and geological evidence of humanoids that walked the earth show that men and women were on the planet thousands of years before the Bible record begins. And then who did Cain marry when he started the Cannonites, his mother? Click For More

The story of Cain and Abel, allegedly the first sons of Adam and Eve, need to be examined with some care. The story is a record of the first recorded murder in human history. It may be interesting to note that numerous other ancient religious works also include versions of similar stories. Click For More

Bible thumpers who really spend time studying that book must have a lot of trouble justifying the many verses that describe their god as a "god of war" and also a "god of peace." How can the god of love that watches over mankind also condone the violent killing of armies and sometimes entire tribes? Click For More

I recently received a letter from a practitioner of Pale Mayombe, a religion based on voodoo black magic that had its origins in the African Congo. The letter, in a strange way, sent me into a mental awareness of the broad array of groups in the world that are seeking spiritual pathways by following both conventional and unconventional religious instruction. This became an exploration into the true meaning of the phrase: "We are all one." Click To Read

Of all the miracle accounts in the Bible, the story of Noah and the ark he built so a remnant of humans and living creatures could escape cataclysmic events has survived scholarly efforts of disproval. Not only is the story found in the fifth chapter of the Book of Genesis, a comparable account is told in the Epic of Gilgamesh and flood stories survive in many tribal myths including the American Indians and on the Islands of Hawaii. Just what happened at that distant time in the past, and why it occurred, remains a mystery. All of the stories say there was a great flood. Yet some have shown through scientific data and mathematics that it couldn't have happened as described in Genesis. Click For More

Of all the strange stories appearing in the Old Testament, the Book of Ezekiel offers perhaps the most interesting account of an oval or "wheel" shaped ship filled with beings that drops from the sky for an encounter with mankind. Click For Story

A line of the Old Testament books, known to the Jewish people as the Torah, are filled with commandments allegedly delivered by God via Moses that have strongly influenced the law books in many parts of the world. The Ten Commandments list what many consider the most important list of laws to be followed, and most of them make sense. Murder, larceny, rape and adultery are considered serious crimes worthy of being addressed by our court system. But many of the other Old Testament laws, and instructions as to how to punish the violators, are a bit strange. Click For Story

The Christian Bible is not only filled with gory stories of blood sacrifice, war and murders, but it depicts God as not only the creator but the mass destroyer of millions of humans. Theologians of course paste all of the stories together as a supreme lesson from the Almighty for the benefit of mankind. But in the end, it appears that mankind hasn’t learned much from the book except use it as an example for our own self-destruction. Click For Sunday Message

The Christian Bible; especially the Book of Deuteronomy, is filled with curses by God for special acts of misbehavior. At the time these Old Testament books were written, the people were riddled with fear and superstition and a curse was taken very seriously. It was bad enough if the curse was cast by a witch. But when it came from The Almighty on High, the people literally trembled in fear. Click For More

As offensive as the practice of slavery is regarded by society today, the Christian Bible actually condones it. In fact, the Bible gives explicit instructions on how slaves should be treated, how severely they can be beaten, and even when slave owners can have sex with them. Click For More

We tend to think of the ancient tribal practice of sacrificing animals and even people on stone alters as a primitive and nonsensical religious rite. Yet the Christian Bible speaks of a God that demands constant blood sacrifices for the atonement of sin. The Old Testament is filled with stories about people building stone altars and then sacrificing the finest male sheep from the herd to be slaughtered before the Lord. The murder of Jesus, described in the New Testament, is considered the ultimate blood sacrifice for the sins of humanity. Click For Story

If you think the contemporary practice of shouting insults and giving insulting hand symbols is something new, guess again. The Old Testament is crammed with examples of insulting remarks that might make your head spin. If you want to sound more sophisticated about your insults, study and memorize some of the almost poetic insults in Samuel, Kings and Isaiah and you will have a stack of new intellectual sounding ammunition to fire at your enemies. Read More

The story of the killing of brothers Onan and Er in Genesis 38 is a simple straight-out tale of God slaughtering first Er, because he was doing something "wicked," whatever that was. Then God killed Onan after refusing to jump in bed with Er’s widow and impregnating her. Something seems wrong with this story. See what you think. Click To Read

Remember the strange Bible story posted a few weeks ago about how Samson tied the tails of 300 foxes together and set them on fire. The crazed animals then ran through the wheat fields of the Philistines and set the crops afire. Samson did this out of revenge because the Philistine woman he married had been given away to the best man at his wedding. But we haven’t told all of this strange story. Click For The Rest

It is easy to understand that when thousands of people are gathered together in the same camp or community, the politics of leadership come into play. In the Sixteenth Chapter of the Book of Numbers, we have a story of political rivalry between Moses, the declared leader of the Israelites, and Korah, a self-proclaimed leader of the Levites. Find out how God handled that pack of rebels. Click For Story

Of all the peculiar stories packed in the Old Testament the ones claiming that God stopped the rotation of the Earth . . . for a full day to assist Joshua in his battle against the Amorites . . . and then caused the planet to spin backward for Isaiah . . . are scientifically impossible to accept. A lot of hard-line Bible thumpers argue that if God has the ability to create the heavens and the Earth, he also can magically stop the Earth’s rotation. But why would He choose to do this when the act would create literal chaos and devastation not only on the Earth, but even in the Solar System? More

There are some really strange stories in the Old Testament. The human association with God is described as quite physical in the stories of Adam and Eve in the garden, Moses on the mountain and also when God appears as a stranger and challenges Jacob to a wrestling match that ends in a draw (Genesis 32). We examine the Jacob/God match today. Click To Read

Few scholars take the story of Jonah as anything more than a myth since there is no known fish or whale in existence that is capable of literally swallowing a man. And once swallowed, if it had happened, it would have been impossible for any living creature to remain inside the digestive system of the beast for three days and then emerge alive. But it is in the Bible so it must be true you say? More . . .

Is there such a thing as a witch? The answer to this question is yes. We live among people with supersensory or clairvoyant abilities. They are all around us, sometimes not realizing their special abilities exist. We now refer to such people as psychics, telepaths, prophets, visionaries, diviners, foretellers, mediums, empaths and seers. The Old Testament condemns these people to death. Click For Story

The "Holy Christian Bible" is filled with a few horror stories that no parent would ever want to read to their children. In fact, they are not stories that Sunday school teachers or preachers ever speak of. Yet they exist, wedged in between the so-called stories of inspiration. One of the most gruesome of the stories is found in the Old Testament Book of Judges, Chapter 19. Dare to read this week's Sunday message. Click Here

The Bible is explicit about communicating with the dead. In verse after verse, from Genesis in the Old Testament to The Book of the Revelation in the New Testament, readers are warned against doing it. So a lot of people want to do it anyway. What happens when we talk to the dead? Sometimes the dead will answer. Click For Story

Among the many Old Testament horror stories is that of Jephthah, the leader of the Israeli army, who led his forces in a great battle against the Ammonites. Jephthah must have been unsure of his ability to succeed in such a battle because he did something really strange. In Judges 11:30 we read: "And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, ‘If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace . . . shall surely be the Lord’s and I will offer it up for a burnt offering." What did he think was going to come out of that door, the family dog? Click For Story

The books of the Old Testament are filled with descriptive stories of war, sex and murders that appear to have nothing to do with reinforcing the reader's faith in God. The assassination that ended the 18-year reign of Eglon, King of Moab, who ruled over the Israelites from the City of Palms, is perhaps the goriest story to be found in that so-called "good book." Click If You Dare

The next time you get stuck in traffic and some idiot cuts you off or does some other ridiculous thing to make your situation worse, we offer some great curses from the Bible that you can use instead of the ones you normally do. Since they are scriptural, you don’t have to feel guilty using them. Click And Memorize

The ancient books of law found in the Old Testament dolled out some really severe punishments for certain types of misbehavior. A good example of this can be found in Deuteronomy 25:11-12. The law reads: "If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reached out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity." It really says that. Click For More

There was an Old Testament law that protected many widows following the death of their husbands, especially if they were childless. If there was a brother, it was his duty to then take the woman as his wife and do his best to impregnate her. Its in the Bible. Look it up. Click For More

While the archaeological evidence does not support it, the story of the life of King David is portrayed in three books of the Old Testament, described in the Quran and mentioned in the Kitab-i-Iqan of the Baha’I faith. The Old Testament books of Samuel, 1 Kings and 1 Chronicles are the basic sources of information about David. David is credited with writing some but not all of the poetry in the Book of Psalms and the New Testament Books of Matthew and Luke list David in the ancestry of Jesus. No other book in the surviving library of ancient text mentions King David and archaeologists have had to stretch their imaginations to find any carved names or documents that appear to be a reference to David. More . . .

Little Bully Kid Jesus

While the Old Testament makes no bones about depicting Jehovah God as an all-powerful force to be feared, the New Testament describes the Son, Jesus, as a kind person preaching love and compassion. At least that is how the priests and high church officials chose to include in the New Testament when they selected the writings and stories about Jesus’ life to be canonized about 600 years after Jesus allegedly lived. And you can bet a lot of stuff was carefully snipped from the original text because it didn’t fit the selected theological viewpoint of the early Roman Catholic Church. For example, there is almost nothing stated in the Gospels or letters about the childhood of Jesus. But the text that has been found depict the young Jesus, like all extra bright children, as a peeler. Click For Story

At an age when so many Bible thumpers are counting heavily on a mythological Jesus to come down out of the clouds and save them from a diseased, polluted and dying planet, a growing number of historical researchers are questioning whether this dynamic "savior" even existed. Seattle psychologist and author Valerie Tarico has written a fascinating review of the New Testament conflicts in the Jesus story. In her article, which appeared in Alternet, Tarico looks deeply into the historical record, the timeline in which the New Testament books were written and chosen by biased theologians to make them fit the "story," and the way the Christian story plagiarizes so many earlier mythical accounts of god-like figures said to have walked among us. Dare To Read

The Bible story of the trial and murder of Jesus is strangely lame when you think about it. An interesting theory presented last year on the website Prison Planet probably makes about as much sense as any we have heard. They murdered Jesus because he attacked the money changers. The article quotes the Rev. Howard Bess, a retired Baptist minister and frequent columnist for various Internet publications, as pointing out that the entire movement to kill Jesus stemmed from his assault on the money changers operating in the temple. "Jesus wasn’t sentenced to death until he challenged the money changers," said Bess. Sounds about right. Click For More

It is common knowledge that the four gospels were written years after Jesus allegedly walked the Earth, and that the writers were not the apostils Matthew, Mark, Luke or John who were with Jesus during his ministry. It also is known that Paul, who claims to have had a miraculous conversion after his single encounter with the spirit of Jesus while on the road to Damascus, is credited with scribbling much of the rest of the New Testament. Nobody knows for sure who wrote the Book of Acts. Scholars say the writing style is so similar they believe the author of Luke also wrote Acts. It is only in the first chapter of Acts that a description of the ascension of Jesus is described. There are vague references to it in the Gospels of Luke and Mark. If the writers didn't see it, did it happen? More . . .

There are various Bible verses that tell us that God is in control of all things, and that followers of Jesus must obey the laws of their government. Romans 13:1 reads: "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God; the powers that be are ordained of God." Thus believers must blindly accept the fact that winners of recent political elections were given their authority by God, even though there has been strong evidence that the elections have been rigged by corrupt election workers all the way up the the Supreme Court. Click For More

There is a thread-worn joke that just about everybody has told or at least heard a few dozen times. We say we don’t really want to go to Heaven because we won’t know anybody up there. There is some basis for making a statement like that. The descriptions of Heaven . . . as best we can ascertain from the few Bible verses that address the subject . . . do not make it a very alluring place. Read More

Most humans agree that something created us. Therefore, we generally conclude there must be a "Creator," or an entity most of us refer to as God. And most believers agree that this God must be omnipotent. The word omnipotent means: to have unlimited authority or power. There is a paradox built into the omnipotence of God, however. It states that "if a being can perform any action then it should be able to create an action that it cannot perform." We chew on this today. More . . .