[ann]For this episode, we discuss a few topics left over from the flood podcast in a little more detail. We also debut our Noah’s Ark commercial, which was excluded from the last podcast to ensure a kid-friendly environment. Finally, we discuss the curious case of a man who brutally murdered his wife and five children, but is afraid to kill himself because suicide might prevent him from getting into Heaven.
Let me help the guy out a bit: if characters like Abraham, Joshua, Noah, and Jesus got into Heaven, the entrance requirements must be pretty low.
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6 Responses to “ANN 30: Flood Leftovers and Entrance Requirements for Heaven”
Thanks to you guys I was able to refute my pastor teacher of Intro to the Bible class. He brought up the Josephus bit about Jesus as being true and I told him (and the class) that it was actually pretty well understood that that bit was a later addition. To which he responded “I’ve never heard that.”
Of course you haven’t, pastor. hahahahaha
Thanks guys.
It’s times like these that I believe a man becomes too filled with pride and is allowed to cry.
I am embarrassed for that pastor.
Yeah, I am one of two atheists in a class of fifteen or so christians. A couple of them are actually creationists which is how I stumbled upon your podcast in the first place, listening to the Evolution and Intelligent Design episodes for ammo for class. So I am constantly feeling like I have to take up arms as a militant atheist or some other bullshit because of the ridiculous things some of them claim and then the rest of the fairly normal christians just nod their heads and go “oh… yeah I guess…” Especially when the teacher is a pastor and the subject is the bible.
The textbook is the best version of the bible I have ever owned though.
http://www.zondervan.com/Cultures/en-US/Product/ProductDetail.htm?ProdID=com.zondervan.9780310938965&QueryStringSite=Zondervan
And I get to keep it and a study guide that goes with it. It gives contextual meaning in a line by line fashion and explains places, names, historical traditions and all kinds of other information about what the lines mean. It also gives an absurd amount of footnotes for other verses pertaining to each word and where else in the bible that particular word occurs.
Anyways, the ghost of Carl Sagan smiles upon you both for the positive effect you had on a classroom of random nobodies by being educators.
My friend, I would pay good money if you brought in a recorder and had it running when they bring up the flood, exodus, creation, Job, Noah, etc. and you got into a good old argument with them. I’d laugh myself into next week if you actually raised a finger, played one of our refutations, and then sat back for the backlash. Hell, if it’s a good enough tape I’d make sure we put up a special post/podcast just for you and this class you’re taking.
Where your textbook is concerned, I find myself more than a little perplexed by this statement, “Excellent for home school use.” I feel uncomfortable in places I shouldn’t.
Yes, well Zondervan is ok as their NIV bible was translated and edited in 1973 and News Corp. didn’t buy them until 1988. So the integrity of the translation is ok but I still check it against Young’s Literal Translation on http://www.biblegateway.com.
But yeah Fox News owns the publisher of this bible. I now also feel uncomfortable in places I shouldn’t. Mayhaps a new Glenn Beck expose is in order. I heard he raped and killed a oung girl in 1990.