Genesis 2:16-17

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis 3:2-7

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

In Genesis 2, God clearly states that Adam and Eve will surely die after they eat the fruit, but they actually continue to live after doing so. In serpent form, the Devil informs them that they will know the difference between good and evil, which they do. It’s not like they were immortal before and then had their immortality taken away. In Genesis 3, God himself says that they have become “one of us,” so the serpent really did tell the truth when he said that Adam and Eve “shall be as gods” once they knew good and evil. Unfortunately, God kicks Adam and Eve out of the garden so that they cannot eat from the tree of life and live forever.

Some have suggested that they experienced a spiritual death. If that is true, then why doesn’t God say so? Instead of doing that, he rattles off various punishments that they will endure. The snake eats dust while women hate him. Eve gets painful childbirth and submission to men. Adam must work the cursed land to get his food. God doesn’t say anything about any death, spiritual or otherwise. Christians may deny this and make rationalizations all they want, but the textual evidence shows that God lied and the Devil told the truth.

The story itself is unfair. Adam and Eve didn’t understand the difference between good and evil before eating the fruit. They didn’t know that it was bad to go against God before they did this, so he is essentially punishing them for something that they didn’t have the capacity to fully comprehend. God shouldn’t have placed the tree there to begin with, because they would have had free will without it.

If no one was supposed to eat from it, why not root it up? Why leave it there to tempt the first two humans? In addition, why does God want to prevent Adam and Eve from gaining knowledge? Faith, belief without evidence, is what he places the most value on. If he exists and is omniscient, then he placed the tree there because he knew that the first two humans would eat from it. He wanted them to blindly follow him rather than to learn anything. When Adam and Eve ate from the tree out of ignorance, he cursed them and their descendants for all eternity. That is evil and deceitful, and his punishments are extreme and cruel. This is not a good god.

The only logical conclusion to come to is that both sides of the Christian pantheon are imaginary. Gods, devils, angels, demons, Heaven, Hell, the afterlife, and even the supernatural, everlasting soul are all notions that stem purely from the human imagination. Christianity is but mythology and superstition that hardens our hearts and enslaves our minds.

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Matthew 5:22

22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

In Matthew 5, Jesus says that anyone who calls another a fool is in danger of going to Hell. Despite this, Jesus calls people fools in Matthew 23, putting himself in danger of the very Hell fire he warned us about in.

Matthew 23:17

17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

Furthermore, God also calls people fools in Luke 12.

Luke 12:20

20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

Both the father and the son have placed themselves in danger of going to Hell. That, or the son lied when he claimed that calling another a fool had this effect. Either way, this proves that Jesus was not without sin.

One might be able to make the claim that the danger of Hell isn’t the same as actually going to Hell. Perhaps Jesus was merely warning against behavior that might lead to rancor. Either way, I can’t think of anyone more deserving of eternal damnation than the guy who invented it.

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Jeremiah 10:1-4

1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

With all this holiday cheer going around, The Devil’s Highlighter decided to spread a little bit of humbug. Nothing could be better for spreading humbug than letting all those practicing Christians know that the tree they just put up is actually a pagan practice that was specifically forbidden in Jeremiah 10. What you see here is God specifically saying that we should not cut down trees to cover them with silver and gold. This was essentially considered to be idolatry. Why, we even lay gifts down before these idols every year to pay homage, not to God but consumerism!

The Christmas tree was originally adopted from pagan practices that were very similar. The King James Bible clearly says that we should not do this and that it is a worthless practice. We couldn’t agree more. Nothing says stress and hypocrisy like Merry Christmas!

In all fairness, this passage is specifically prohibiting the creation of wooden idols. This was not intended to specifically prohibit Christmas trees. However, it does resemble this practice very closely, and it could be easily argued that this passage also prohibits the decoration of the Christmas tree. While the tree is not specifically worshiped, it has been adopted as a symbol for the season. I can also guarantee that the children think more about what’s under that tree than who was supposedly born two millennia years ago. The Christmas tree is indeed idolatry, but don’t take my word for it. Read Jeremiah 10 to see for yourself.

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Judges 1:19

19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

In Judges 1, we find that there is a war. The Israelites are running around, killing all sorts of people, and taking their land.

God lends them aid by delivering these people into their hands. Well, not all of them. Apparently, he could not drive out one particular group, and it’s all because they had chariots of iron. It seems as if this all-powerful god actually does have a weakness, and it happens to be iron!

Iron, being the element that gives blood its color and odor, has long been associated with life and death, as well as the gods. It is often used to repel fairies, demons, witches, and evil spirits. It surprises me to find that it apparently also repels God, or at least renders him unable to shoo you away.

Can a god really be claimed to be all-powerful if he can’t even deal with a few iron chariots? How do you think he’d stand up to an armored tank?

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1 John 4:18

18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Deuteronomy 6:5

5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Isaiah 8:13

13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

According to 1 John 4, we cannot both love and fear anything. However, the constant commands we receive from other verses suggesting that we should both love and fear God would then be considered contradictory.

Either we can both love and fear a being, which would make John’s verse false, or the verses instructing us to either love or fear God are false. Any way you slice it, someone was wrong. We cannot say that the King James Bible is perfect if it contains such obvious errors.

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In Exodus 9, God kills all the cattle of the Egyptians, as well as the horses, asses, camels, oxen, and sheep.

Exodus 9:3-6

3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel.

5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.

6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

Then, God sends a plague of boils that afflicts all the Egyptians and their cattle. Where is this cattle? Aren’t the cattle already dead?

Exodus 9:9-11

9And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.

10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.

11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.

Then, God sends hail so that all that remains in the fields, including the crops and the cattle, will die. Where is this cattle?

Exodus 9:19-25

19 Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.

22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.

23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

In Exodus 12, God has all the first-born Egyptians killed, including the first born cattle. Where is all this cattle?

Exodus 12:12

12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

In Exodus 14, Ramses lets the Israelites go, but then changes his mind and pursues them on horseback.

Exodus 14:9

9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.

If all of the animals are already dead, the horses should be dead as well.

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Matthew 27:3-8

3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

Acts 1:16-19

16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.

17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.

18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.

In both Matthew 27 and the Acts 1, Judas is associated with the Field of Blood. However, their reasons for this association are completely different. Does Judas hang himself, or does he fall and have his intestines spill open? Did he buy the orchard, or did the priests? Is the Field of Blood so named because of the blood money used to purchase it, or was it because Judas spilled his guts there? Maybe they’re both wrong and Judas purchased the orchard with the blood money fully intending to hang himself there, but before he got to do it, he tripped over the rope and split his guts open? Maybe while on the way to hang himself, Judas was abducted by unicorns and forced to knit socks out of parsley until his fingers bled?

Some have suggested that the account in Acts 1 is allegorical, that his fall was a fall from grace, and that his guts spilling out where his losing his mercy and kindness. This interpretation fails because none of the rest of the chapter is allegorical. The entire chapter is written as a story. Additionally, Luke the Evangelist give Judas’ guts spilling out as the reason for the name of the Field of Blood and does not mention that it might be so named because of the blood money. This passage in Acts suggests that the literal gore produced by this scene is the cause of the name of the field, which points to a literal, not allegorical, interpretation.

Others have suggested that Judas hung himself, then rotted on the rope before falling and bursting open, that the field was purchased by his money by the priest, and that he also happened to hang himself in that field by coincidence. The problems with this interpretation is simple. Judas wouldn’t have fallen headlong from hanging, but rather feet first.

Additionally, no one mentions him being dead and rotting long enough for his guts to be able to burst out on impact. Also, his hanging is the cause of his death in this interpretation, but the verse never mentions hanging and actually makes it seem as if the fall killed him. While it is true that you do fall when hanged, your guts do not spill out. In a worst-case scenario, your neck breaks.

Furthermore, some have suggested that he hanged himself over an embankment, or a cliff. After rotting on the rope for a while, the rope would break, and he would fall a far enough distance to turn in mid-air so that he’s falling head-first. Being slightly decomposed, he would indeed burst open upon impact. While this is the most plausible interpretation, this one also fails. In this passage, it does not mention a cliff, Judas hanging, or his body rotting, all of which one would assume would be important enough to mention.

If we can apologize it away by saying that the King James Bible doesn’t say it happened that way, that implies that we can insert whatever we want into the story and that it’s entirely possible that the story did indeed include unicorns and socks knit from parsley. The King James Bible doesn’t say it didn’t happen that way. As in the previous interpretation, the contradiction about who purchased the field and the naming of the field are still preserved.

The fact of the matter is that in trying to determine how Judas died, you have to do quite a bit of mental acrobatics. You have to twist the story until it all fits. In the end, you’ve got something that doesn’t resemble the story presented in either passage. The only logical conclusion is that someone was wrong. As one of the most influential characters in the life and death of Jesus, one would assume that Judas could keep his story straight. Apparently, that is just not the case. What should be more distressing to Christians is the proximity of this glaring mistake so close to the story of the death of Jesus, their savior. If this piece of the story is false, how much else is false?

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John 12:47

47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

John 9:39

39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

To get the full picture of both tales, you must read a bit more into it. In John 12, we find that Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees. Some of them do not believe in him, while some believe him but will not say so because they fear getting kicked out of the synagogue. He makes the statement that he did not come to judge the world while God is the one doing the judging.

Jesus says in one verse prior that if we’ve seen him, we’ve seen the one who sent him, implying that they are one and the same. In this instance, either he is God and he’s lying, or is he isn’t God and he could be telling the truth in this instance.

Upon reading John 9:35-41, we find that Jesus is speaking of spiritual blindness while referring to those who do not know the truth, and those who know the truth but deny it. He specifically states that he came into this world for judgment. He doesn’t specifically use the words judge the world, but the word judge is still used in such an open-ended fashion that it can be understood as the judgment of all.

Some may argue that these passages are referring to two completely different kinds of judgement. However, evaluation of the original Greek reveals the words used for judgment are both from the root krina or krima, which referred to judgments or accusations associated with criminal activity.

The hilarity of this contradiction is further compounded by the fact that they are from the same book and author. Apparently, either John the Apostle couldn’t get his story straight or Jesus couldn’t get his own story straight. The conclusion you’re left with is that either a major author of the New Testament was fallible or Jesus was fallible. Either way, this brings the King James Bible and Christianity as a whole into question.

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Genesis 17:9-14

9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

Acts 15:24

24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:

The first passage shows the word of God as spoken to Abraham in Genesis 17. However, it is also clearly suggested in the Acts 15 that there was no such mandate, according to Luke the Evangelist. Perhaps Luke was simply unaware of this, but one would think that an author of the New Testament would be knowledgeable of the Old Testament.

Galatians 5:1-4

1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Here, Paul the Apostle speaks out against circumcision in Galatians 5. In fact, he suggests that if you get circumcised, you are obligated to obey all of the laws of Moses and that Christ will be of no value to you.

If you read the entire chapter, you find that Paul suggests that one can reach salvation through faith and good deeds alone. This is contradictory to the words of Jesus himself, who said that he did not come to abolish any of the old law.

Furthermore, he suggests that we have all fallen from grace and that the law is essentially of no consequence. Once again, this is not only against other Christian teachings, this is against any semblance of morality. How can any morality exist when everything is permissible? There are simply too many contradictions here to hunt them all down.

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