Historical
27 entries.
| Sheet | Objection | |
|---|---|---|
| Positions | The New Testament retconns/lies about the Old Testament. | Argument page → |
| Positions | Jesus was either lying or wrong about things. | Argument page → |
| Positions | Early Hebrews were henotheists, not monotheists. Yahweh was one of many provincial deities. | Argument page → |
| Positions | Most of the ideas in the bible were inherited from the Canaanite beliefs. | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | 1 Samuel 18:20-28 has Saul set a bride-price of 100 Philistine foreskins for his daughter Michal's marriage to David; David delivers 200. | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | 'More Zombies!' — Matthew 27:51-53 reports that at Jesus's death the temple veil tore, an earthquake split rocks, and 'the bodies of many ho… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | needs review 'Texas Secession': a bare link to the Texas State Library's page hosting the text of the February 2, 1861 Texas declaration of causes for se… | Argument page → |
| Failed Biblical Prophecies & ot | Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38 give substantially different genealogies for Jesus (differing already at the name of Joseph's father — Jacob… | Argument page → |
| Monotheism in the Bible | Psalm 29's sevenfold 'voice of the LORD' storm-theophany closely parallels the Ugaritic Baal Cycle (KTU 1.1-1.6): Baal as storm-god riding c… | Argument page → |
| Monotheism in the Bible | Psalm 74:12-14 and Psalm 89:6-11 depict God crushing the heads of Leviathan/Rahab and ruling the raging sea — closely paralleling the Babylo… | Argument page → |
| Monotheism in the Bible | A reference table listing Canaanite/ANE deities named or alluded to in the Hebrew Bible — Baal (storm/fertility god, ~89 references, e.g. 2… | Argument page → |
| Monotheism in the Bible | needs review A link to a Biblical Archaeology Society article titled 'Asherah Worship' — no argument is actually stated in the spreadsheet row beyond the… | Argument page → |
| Child Sacrifice | 2 Kings 16:1-4 reports that King Ahaz of Judah 'made his son pass through fire, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom th… | Argument page → |
| Originality of Biblical Morals | The Ten Commandments are traditionally dated to roughly 1490 BCE, but the oldest physical manuscript that can actually be verified is the Na… | Argument page → |
| Originality of Biblical Morals | The substantive content of the Ten Commandments — prohibitions of murder, theft, adultery, and false witness, and the command to honor one's… | Argument page → |
| Originality of Biblical Morals | The Egyptian Book of the Dead contains 'negative confessions' declaring innocence of theft, murder, and adultery ('I have not stolen,' 'I ha… | Argument page → |
| Originality of Biblical Morals | The lex talionis principle ('eye for an eye') and the broader tradition of written legal codes long predate the Ten Commandments: the Laws o… | Argument page → |
| Historical | The spreadsheet lists a sequence of Ancient Near Eastern legal collections that predate Moses/Sinai: the Code of Urukagina (~2380-2360 BCE,… | Argument page → |
| Historical | Two bare source entries — 'Yahweh: Bronze Age Deity in the Levant' (linking a YouTube video and the Wikipedia article on the 'Shasu of Yahwe… | Argument page → |
| Quotes | Row 1: "The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession." — Abraham Lincoln. Row 2: "He had no faith, in the Christian sense of the… | Argument page → |
| Quotes | Row 3: "I have found Christian dogma unintelligible... Some books on Deism fell into my hands... in short I soon became a thorough deist." R… | Argument page → |
| Quotes | Row 6: "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." — Madison to William Bradford, April… | Argument page → |
| Quotes | "A cult is bullshit, it's created by one person, that person knows it's bullshit. In a religion, that dude's dead." — Joe Rogan. | Argument page → |
| Quotes | "This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it." — John Adams. "Sire, we have no need of that hypothesis." —… | Argument page → |
| Quotes | Row 12: "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man." Row 13: "There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition… | Argument page → |
| Quotes | Row 16: "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." Row 17: "I do not believe in the creed professed by th… | Argument page → |
| Quotes | Overall pattern across the Quotes sheet: a series of quotations from admired historical figures (Lincoln, Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, Pain… | Argument page → |