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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels Jesus Heals A Withered Hand

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 19 May 18

And Lo, John did see that the other three Gospels already covered this miracle, so he chose to ignore it. The Synoptic Gospel accounts don’t vary too much for once. Matthew 12:9-14 Jesus goes into a synagogue where he meets a...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospel Line Physician Heal Thyself

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 20 Jan 18

One of the strangest lines uttered by Jesus occurs only in Luke, Chapter 4, Verse 23. The line comes amidst passages in which he is turned away by the people of Nazareth when he tries to preach and perform miracles there, in his...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Bible Gopels The Apostles Go Evangelizing

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 20 Dec 17

In Matthew 10; 2 the Apostles are all given divine powers to heal and exorcise. Jesus sends them off on their own independent missions, usually in pairs. Their orders are spelt out quite clearly. They are not to attempt to...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospel Recruitment Of The Apostles Part 3

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 4 Dec 17

My final look at how the original twelve Apostles supposedly met Jesus looks at James, son of Alphaeus, Simon The Zealot, and both men called Judas. I was quite surprised to see a second Judas on the lists as well as the infamous...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospel Ministry Of John The Baptist

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 18 Nov 17

After a few references to his childhood, covered by me in a previous feature, Jesus disappears from the story for 18 years. A few believers speculate wildly on where he went, concluding that he travelled in India and Egypt and in...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of Genesis Chapter 42

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 18 Oct 17

Thanks to God and Joseph, Egypt is the only country with reserves of food during a seven year global famine in which Joseph personally sells food to people who can take it back to their own communities. Need breakfast in...

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Book Review - Daniel Partner - 365 Read Aloud Bedtime Bible Stories

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 21 Aug 17

1995 – Barbour Press One of the most repulsive children’s books I have ever seen. I remember having a children’s Bible among my childhood presents (I was raised as a Roman Catholic). It won’t have been this book, but there are...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of Genesis Chapter Sixteen - Hagar And Ishmael

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 14 Aug 17

While Abram is listening to God promising him that he will have a son and heir, his seemingly barren wife Sarai has her own solution to the problem. She asks Abram if he would be willing to impregnate her chief handmaid slave,...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of Genesis Chapter Fourteen

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 10 Aug 17

The plains of Canaan (Palestine) erupt in a massive civil war, which soon embroils several rival city-kingdom, including Sodom and Gomorrah. It is a rebellion against twelve years of subjugation to the most powerful of the kings,...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of Genesis Chapter One - Days Two To Six

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 24 Jul 17

The Monday of the six day Creation process is even more confusing than the Sunday. It involves the separation of two vast sources of water. The first seems likely to be the ocean. The other is a body of water raised above the...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Hebrews Chapter 2

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 12 Dec 15

We are implored to heed and listen to angels closely for their words are bound to be portentous and significant. Not following their instructions could have dire consequences. The problem here is that the vast majority of us...

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An Atheistic Bible Study – Hebrews Chapter 1

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 21 Oct 15

Despite its title the Book Of Hebrews addresses early Christians, not the Jews. Attributed to St. Paul, the book describes Jesus as dying in controlled self-sacrifice to save us all from our sins, but crucially it makes a point...

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Regular And Recurring Features

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 16 Oct 15

While writing lots of stuff on the spur of the moment and off-the-cuff, I do have a set of recurring feature themes to fall back on. They won’t all appear every day and there will be days of few posts but I have these as an...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of Psalm 150

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 29 Sep 15

Psalm 150/. To be sure everyone knows you are praying to God properly prayer is to be conducted loudly and publically. This encourages everyone to be seen to be at prayer which surely puts out the obvious increasing risk of...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of Psalms 148 And 149

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 27 Sep 15

Psalm 148 – It isn’t just Jews and Christians who must pray to God, or even all people, but everything created. Angels an dragons are expected to pray, and perhaps poetically, eve inanimate mountains and rivers are expected to do...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of Psalms 146 and 147

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 26 Sep 15

The last five of the 150 Psalms in The Old Testament have a simple shared message of the importance of praying, and praising God as much as possible. 146 points out the uselessness of praying to anyone but God as only he is...

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Atheists welcome!

missak @missak (3311) • Spain 26 Jun 07

I hope this time more of you feel comfortable in my discussion. This is a game: you post your arguments against metaphysics, then I try to refutate them. Also I post my arguments in favour to metaphysics, then you try to refutate...

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Science is wrong.

missak @missak (3311) • Spain 16 May 07

Ok, not alway, of course, but I want to take the attention of all thoose science believers that claim religion is wrong because of science. First, there are lot of science branchs that involve religious matters, such as defined by...

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Is Buddhism a phylosophy or a religion?

missak @missak (3311) • Spain 26 Apr 07

IS it theistic or atheistic? Are there different official opinions towards this (different buddhist versions)? What is the role of the Lamas? are they somehow a representation of God?

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Is there any atheistic?

missak @missak (3311) • Spain 15 Apr 07

I'll convert them!! at least I'll give you good arguments

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