FourPacketsOfPeanuts

Multipass?

Salt (Angelina Jolie)

I thought it was a pretty decent film..

Any of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

They were probably just the “first batch” so to speak.

the standard response to this is that if there were other independently created people in Eden then they wouldn't have been expelled for Adam and Eve's mistake. and after the fall no other people could be created because a) they would be sinless which messes everything up and b) "God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th".

nice little dig at evolution calling mutations "mistakes". as in, they happen but they can only be negative.

since God's Word is the only standard for defining proper marriage

oh - and where's that? the bit where multiple wives are ok (Solomon), or where multiple wives is commanded (Levrite marriage) or where slave girls are ok ("concubines" being the usual euphamism) or where polygamy is disallowed but only for church leaders (this seems like the worst one tbh, the very necessity of this rule means there were sufficient polygamous relationships in the early church that it even warrants a mention...)

Knightmare! https://youtu.be/eU5pdZOA9vc?feature=shared

I'm old enough to remember a home visit from my GP for childhood asthma and he was prepping his pipe with tobacco while talking to me

Yes. But the graphic is painting the idea that the text can't have been transmitted accurately. Whereas it's most likely we have good portions of what Paul actually taught, less so the historical Jesus but some parts more likely than others. The OT is different given it's largely legendary. But, even so, it's transmission from the post exile communities that first authored it is surprisingly accurate. The Dead Sea Scrolls found in the late 1940s pushed back the earliest OT texts we have a full thousand years from ~900ad to ~100bc. The level to which they were accurate copies was astonishing showing that textual transmission in the ancient world was more reliable than previously thought.

This isn't a religious point of view, but rather one of secular scholarship.

Anytime someone says anyone is a DEI hire

Some people are DEI hires though, don't overreact.

Someone using it as a slur against the most competent candidate is being racist. But used for anyone elevated for diversity reasons it's perfectly valid.

Not a single instruction in the church age of the bible saying to give tithes. Only to be generous.

Whole thing's a con.

..... 1.5/8

I think the KJV-only movement is largely an American insanity. Elsewhere I see the NIV or NASB being used more. And they're translated from earliest Greek texts wherever they're found. Earliest complete texts are about 325ad with fragments earlier

The "10s of thousands of variations" line is disingenuous. Manuscripts overwhelmingly only differ on grammatical and typos type differences. A bit like if everyone was asked to tell the story of Goldilocks. You'd get 1000 variations, but the essentials of the story would be apparent clear as day.