Biblical Nonsense: Jason Long

The basic theme of the book is that the Bible, mainly the Old Testament, contains a multitude of errors and contradictions and present a picture of a Creator that is extremely dark.

When you do something like that you need to make sure you have strong evidence to back up what you are saying. This book does that by using the Bible against itself.

I'm going to just list some of the things this book covers. Keep in mind that the author doesn't make any claims that he cannot back up by using the words of the Bible itself.

The Bible is brings up various wars that believers were involved in. The Bible blatantly oppresses women. It justifies slavery. It orders the killing of witches. If you are not a firm believer you have a very good chance of going to Hell.

Paul is responsible for much of the negative things that are in the Bible.

How Christianity was accepted by Rome and why it didn't get accepted in the East.

'Christian religion is a blatantly false religion.'

The person who takes a position on something is the one responsible for proving what they say is factual.

There are many problems with Genesis such as plants were created before the Sun (plants need sunlight), zoological blunders, medical errors and logical problems with the Tower of Bible and Noah's ark.

Just because a lot of people believe something does not mean it is necessarily true.

There were other flood stories well before the flood story of the Bible was written.

There are many practical problems with the Ark itself.

God is 'an insanely angry deity.'

God gives orders to kill people. This includes men, women and children.

(Note: the author notes the exact book and verse things like this statement show to be true.)

Example: A guy picks up sticks on the Sabbath and Moses orders him killed.

If a distant ancestor did something considered wrong then a person in that same family living now could be punished for what his ancestor did.

The number of people killed on God's orders is a minimum of 2 million and can go as high as 5 million.

Homosexual? Die. Incest? Die. Attack mother or father? Die. Curse them? Die. And so on with various other 'problems.'

The book discusses rules for women on their period, how women should submit to their husbands, how to treat them and how to punish them.

The Bible condones slavery and has rules for slaves to follow.

Numerous problems with the Exodus story.

There are various versions that don't agree of the creation story and the flood story.

There are different versions of the certification story.

There are numerous prophecies said to have been fulfilled that were actually never prophecies at all.

Things updating what is in the book:

At the time of the writing of the book there was not substantive evidence that Jesus actually exited so the author was not sure if he existed or not but, since that time, evidence including Roman writings. The Shroud of Turin has turned out to be a hoax. There is a 'bone box' for James, the brother of Jesus.

This is a well-writen book and is very careful about using exact quotes from the Bible in its arguments relating to inconsistencies in the Bible.