Joel Baden: The Bible Doesn't Say What You Think it Does
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- Joel Baden (Professor of Hebrew Bible Yale University) spoke at the 2013 Nantucket Project.
Nearly 80 percent of all Americans think the Bible is either literally true or is the inspired word of God. And yet, most Americans have no idea what is actually in the Bible. So we have the paradoxical situation in which we as a culture "have invested the words of this book with amazing authority even when we don't know what these words are and what they mean."
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I thank God every day for the bible. Without it, how would I know how to treat my slaves.
The title should be, The Bible doesn’t say what this guy thinks it says.
I agree that the Bible has strange effect on some people. The less they read it the more they consider themselves experts on it.
Written by five different Jews with 7 opinions 🤣
The Bible doesn't say what he thinks it does either, which is a little ironic.
unfortunate name
"Sometimes the Bible is used as a prop." And sometimes it's used as a club.
No agenda here “swish”
I've read the bible from Genesis to Revelation in 3 languages. In point of fact, it is my go to source for learning a new language. What is most frustrating to me is the number of Christians I meet who, when confronted with this declaration, tell me, without shame, that they have never read the bible but subscribe only to its 'truth'.
Useful in the way that heroin is useful. The difference? Heroin is easier to get off of, and society recognizes heroin ADDICTION as an ADDICTION.
"The Bible doesn't say what you think it does." Says every Christian to everyone else.
Let’s Go Baden
I'm a 20 percenter. I was religious at one time. My church asked me to conduct an adult Bible study on the OT. When I started to read it critically it immediately became apparent it had the validity of King Arthur.
The real problem here is the problem of the "institution". It's a problem that seems difficult to avoid and it happens rather commonly.
There is a fantastic book, written by a Harvard literary professor called “Who Wrote the Bible?” Which explains many contradictions in the Old Testament. It’s incredibly fascinating but the punch line is that it was not divinely inspired but rather the work of different priests / religious sects and was ultimately woven together (similar to how the New Testament was a collection of different authors).
Love to show this to my dad, but I think it would break his brain.
Anki and Anlil. "Let us make them in OUR image".
I knew this when I was 6 years old caused quite the commotion in sunday school.
Baden: "The bible preserves religious pluralism for us"
What the speaker said at the very beginning shows that we are further gone as a country than I thought.