Anything Divine in the Bible?

Can you tell me how anyone can arrive at your conclusion regarding the quoted verses:Exodus 21:20-21 NASB writes:
20 If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.

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21 If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property. There are two completely different conclusions here, one that God advocated punishment for, and the other that He declares that there is no punishment for.To say that God does not approve of one person hitting another when God specifically claims that it is okay to beat a slave almost to death is cognitive dissonance of the highest order.Read verse 21 again, and this time take of your mind altering Jesus spectacles.

And the Book of Jonah shows that He does control human actions.Thus, we must conclude that Yahweh is an evil bloodthirsty tyrant who gets off on peoples' suffering.

Maybe Yahweh would be more successful in 'redeeming' mankind if Yahweh begged us to forgive Him for the deliberate suffering He has forced upon mankind.The whole 'sending the son' routine is essentially a ridiculous concept with huge blunders in it that people have to be blind not to see, or don't want to see.Jesus was probably a decent guy, maybe a little misunderstood, but He certainly was no messiah.Anyway, back to the topic.To me the whole Bible is a human construction which reeks of mythology and propoganda.To conclude if there is anything divine in it we would have to prove that there is such a thing as the divine, and after thousands of years of human history not a single person has been able to do this.So, how can we make give credit for anything to a being that may not even exist?

You really will regret the day you asked this question! ROFLMAOBuz has been suckered into believing the garbage on Ron Wyatt's website. Poor Ron has passed away, but his hangers on continue to cheat people out of money for their embarrassing videos and booklets.There is no evidence for the Exodus, Buz goes on about a chariot wheel at the bottom of the Red Sea, which has never been recovered, and may not even be a chariot wheel, and suddenly everything in the Book of Exodus is magically true. Forget that the Bible never claims that the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, that really doesn't matter.Good luck with this one BTW, this garbage supplied by Buz has been completely deconstructed and shown to be crap by many people here at EvC, but he keeps trotting it out every now and then.

Isn't it amazing what the mind of a fundy can justify.You admit yourself that Achan's family being slaughtered was 'harsh' (quite an understatement), then go on to justify it in your mind.The slaughtring of Achan's family is unjust and evil, you know it, I know it, and everyone else knows it.The only good thing about this story is that it is a fairytale, since archaeology has proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the 'victory' at Jericho is a myth.It appears to me that God can commit, or allow, all sorts of evil acts, and the fundy will find some way to justify it.What a sad and pathetic life to lead.Edited by Brian, : spellin

Supports my stance that fundies are as thick as two short planks.Thanks for the laugh Bertit, fair cheered me up.

I shouldn't need to explain why it is comical, at least not to anyone who knows the Bible. What you posted is not in ANY Bible. The thickness is there because YOU have not posted what the 'Lord' is believed to have said. I am pretty certain that the 'Lord' did not make the statement that you posted.Maybe you should read Matthew 7:6 again.