all of it.
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that one about the guy waterbending a river in half. element bending is extinct now...

but seriously religious/political/sport topics are usually closed by mods, these kind of topics lead to unforeseen consequences, like shitposting, and generalized forum's rage. even if it's not OP's intention.

Exodus 21:20 - 21:21 NIV; "Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property."

In the old testament, it says a lot of rules about food. You can only eat meat from animals x characteristics. For e.g. the shellfish and pig(the glorious bacon).

But these rules are more like guidelines, because eating those things 2000 years ago could kill you. And they are still very unhealthy.

close this before someone gets insulted

I like the part about Dinosaurs.

31:18 NLT
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.

You're talking about a religion from an era far behind ours, based on mysticism and featuring supernatural feats, where inequality was rampant and cultures rose and fell overnight. You can pretty much underline most things in religious texts as "outdated or irrelevant" by simple virtue of being from a past time, prior to our rise to a higher degree of civilisation.

I think it would be more important or interesting to discuss modern beliefs and viewpoints that are hollow or strange, but that's a complete hand-grenade/landmine of a subject that is best dodged or taken in smaller more focused threads. Plus, it's far too easy for a few tactless jerks to stomp around and needlessly offend folks instead of give rise to coherent, articulate discussion. Sadly enough, most forum posters aren't 'ready' for a subject of this magnitude, but your focus on the bible is strange and quite biased...

Shellfish was under the old covenant, Jesus being the new covenant which we are now under made it no longer wrong to do such things.

However false beliefs such as the trinity which appear no where in the Bible, hell as a place of torment when death is really just a sleep like state known as the the common grave of mankind, etc.

Nothing is outdated, there are just people who twist the word.

Ezekiel 23:20. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

I wouldn't say that anything in the Bible is "irrelevant", just that a lot of shit doesn't make too much sense (Or any sense, for that matter).

Also the part about dinosaurs. And lesbians. Lesbian Dinosaurs. Never forget.

consuming shellfish is a codename for pussy eating

Deuteronomy 25:11-12:
"If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her."

Best place for that topic.

Getting ready for family dinner?
On-Topic: Only bible lines I know are Ezekiel 25:17

Here's leviticus ready for you, the link is 76 things banned by leviticus.

Best ones:
Don't have a variety of crops on the same field. (Leviticus 19:19) (say bye bye to three field system)
Don't wear clothes made of more than one fabric (Leviticus 19:19)
Kill anyone with a different religion. (Deuteronomy 17:2-7) (and then don't kill in the ten commandments)

It's a book of fairy tales that are more than two thousand years old. How can you expect to find anything relevant in there?

You mean like the one about the guy who saved all the lands species in the fucking world by putting them all on a little wooden boat, 7 pairs if herbivorous and 2 pairs if carnivorous? Doesn't get more ridiculous than that... Or maybe "the fact" that our dear blue planet is no older than 6000 years, the incredibly accurate number obtained by clerics by counting the generations in the Bible from Adam to Jesus.

Psalm 137:9
"Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks."

To be perfectly honest... How long "we" are not recognising homosexuality as a mental illness? Less than 30 years. Etc. How can be a book, which consists of about 40 volumes written for centuries, transcripted by hand for 2/3 of its existence, translated back and forth several times, not outdated?

A little bit of fun for you: "Dad, do you remember that fishing club I had 2000 years ago? It still exists!" - Jesus.

Such sadness I have for this thread and it's commentators. Praying for you guys. I know these words will fall on deaf ears and will do nothing to soften your hard hearts, but you need not be so full of anger.

Lots of people with little to no contextual understanding on both sides. If you want to debate against it in your class/for your project, the idiot atheist way (to simply bash on what little pieces you put together) is no better than the idiot theist way (to pretend everything is rainbows and sunshine, and all opposition are just misguided and hateful). It'd be nice to see you apply some genuine effort into learning this to make valid and original arguments. But oh well, that's usually too much to ask for these days.

Here we go...

Instead of trying to tear down someone's religion I encourage to build up someone up and be a positive influence in their life. Try to focus on the things that you have in common with Christians instead of focusing on what you don't have in common.

As it's been noted before, was this really the place to post this?

Look what you've made me do, I dusted off my bible.

Bible New Revised Standard Version. Genesis 1:1-5

In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

The part where the earth was formed with water before the sun shines is a good one to start with.
Sorry, Astrophysicist here. Now for the good stuff.
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