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Needs manual review — bare reference/URL with no stated argument; no refutation was invented for this row.

Raw entry: 'Why isn't God around?' — with a citation of Lev 20:3 and no further argument given.

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'CK' — a bare BibleGateway link to Proverbs 12:21 and Deuteronomy 28:63 (NRSVUE), with no stated argument. Appears to be a stray personal note-to-self ('CK' likely shorthand for 'check') rather than a formulated objection. These same two verses are already addressed by rows 16-17 in batch 1 of this sheet.Textual Specific Issues
The KJV references mythical creatures as though real: 'satyrs' (Isaiah 34:14), 'unicorns' (Isaiah 34:7 and elsewhere), 'wizards' (Leviticus 20:26-27), 'witches' (Exodus 22:18), and a 'cockatrice' (Isaiah 11:8) — undermining the Bible's credibility as a serious text.Textual Specific Issues
Numbers 23:19 states God does not lie or repent/change his mind, yet many other texts (Genesis 6:6, Exodus 32:14, 1 Samuel 15:11,35, Jonah 3:10, Jeremiah 18:8-10) explicitly say God repented, relented, or regretted a decision — a direct internal contradiction.Textual Specific Issues
Early biblical texts reflect polytheism — Elohim is grammatically plural, Genesis 1:26 has God say 'let us make man in our image,' and comparative Canaanite/Ugaritic religion suggests Yahweh originated as one storm-god among many, with El as a separate, senior deity, implying Israelite monotheism was a late development retrojected onto earlier polytheistic material.Textual Specific Issues
God has Moses feel his own breast/hand and it turns leprous, then is restored, as a sign to convince Israel Moses was sent by God (Exodus 4:6-7).Textual Specific Issues
'Most of Christian analysis is strained Eisegesis' — illustrated by asking whether Deuteronomy 32:4 ('The Rock, his work is perfect... a faithful God, without deceit') refers to Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.Textual Specific Issues