The Skeptic's Annotated Bible
Steve Wells
Language: English
Pages: 1648
ISBN: 0988245108
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: (5.4) “And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters.” Finally, sometime in the next 800 years, Adam begat some daughters. These nameless ones are the first (and nearly the last) girls to be born in the Bible. 5 And all the days that Adam lived were
seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, 7 And for thy
when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy. 7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me. (5.7) “When the king of Israel had read the letter … he rent his clothes.” 8
for marrying “strange wives.” To punish them, he “contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair.” 25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves. (13.25) “I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and
13.21), and most of the time after this prophecy there was no king at all. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. (49.11-12) “He washed his garments in wine … His eyes shall be red with wine.” Did Judah really wash his clothes in wine? Were his eyes bloodshot from drinking too much? Or is this a prophecy of Jesus? (See