And boy is it a doosie. This email was sent to Francesca….
Two things to note… the Bible wasn’t written in English, so the whole premise is stupid. Just rankly stupid. Little wonder the ‘book’ hasn’t gotten much notice. And second, Francesca gets more nutbag email than anyone in the history of the 21st century (so far).
Anyway, Mr 19 year old ‘scholar’, here’s your Dilly. Enjoy it… You’ve certainly earned it-
For, according to James McGrath, the ignoramuses at ‘PocketDoctrines’ are actually asserting that the KJV is better than the originals- for a list of reasons which demonstrate their inability to think clearly.
‘PocketDoctrines’ must be an assemblage of dilettantes who don’t know anything about how books (from scrolls) developed. Nor do they know how to exegete Jeremiah 36, which says nothing about God destroying scrolls but a wicked king doing so. Nor are they aware of the fact that some of us actually do read ancient languages and- believe it or not, the KJV is derived from those sources, they are not dependent on it. Point 5 is utterly anglo-centric and ignores the truth that most of the world doesn’t read English. And, further, what did the people who lived before 1611 read? Are we to believe they had no bible just because they didn’t have the KJV? Point 6 is just stupidity enfleshed. And point 7 proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the KJV only crowd knows nothing about the history of the text.
In sum, the people who produced the rubbish at ‘PocketDoctrines’ are dilettantes of the most ignorant and uninformed sort. So, here’s your Dilly, ‘PocketDoctrines’:
I’ll go ahead and give you your award, Bill. Normally I like to read books before I find them disreputable but given two simple facts: 1) you aren’t a biblical scholar and thus have no more business writing a book on Jesus than you do writing a book on quantum physics (and neither does your co-author Mr Dugard, a ‘running coach’ (good lord), and 2) you’re a blowhard, I’ll go ahead and presume that your work will be pure worthlessness and so here’s your Dilly.
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly plans on “Killing Jesus.” That will be his next book. O’Reilly has topped bestseller lists with two prior histories, “Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot,” and “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever.” Because his television talk show keeps him busy, O’Reilly has a coauthor, Martin Dugard, who will continue to work with him on “Killing Jesus.”
Sickening.
Here ya go- the pair of ya-
First, Christian Brady remarks
Theology and the Bible should never be separated. (Unless it is systematic theology. After all, the Bible isn’t very systematic.)
I agree. The Bible is theological to its very core; and true Christian theology is biblical to its very core. Systematizations are problematic, but not nearly as problematic as the Priest who declared of her sermon:
It was pure theology, no specific biblical references.
Blah. If it wasn’t based on biblical texts specifically it isn’t even impure theology- it’s dilettantish theology of the worst kind.
Chris then observes
That is wrong on so many levels. I think even Jim would agree.
Oh you bet he does. You bet he does! I don’t know who that woman was, but she should keep silent in the Church. In absentia I present her this week’s Dilly- and it’s well deserved-
So, apparently, the ‘Science Guy’ is all excited about Pat Robertson’s latest blatherings (though why anyone is loony enough to think Pat Robertson a hero of any sort is a mystery to me). This led Mr Science, for whatever reason, to tweet his joy, suggesting Robertson’s followers should join him. Naturally the HuffPo wet itself in delight and retweeted the Science person’s misguided opinion.
I replied to both that the fact is, Pat Robertson’s ‘followers’ should be following Jesus, not him.
And now, the wry twist. It seems that Pat Robertson has followers who blindly align themselves to whatever views he holds, as the penultimate tweet in the series from the screenshot below shows:
If Mr Baugh is right, then Pat Robertson’s ‘followers’ are worse off than I thought and in fact they should be much more concerned with their souls than with creationism or anything else.
Richard Bartholomew (one of my favorite bloggers) writes
WND promotes a new product from Jonthan Cahn:
The newest, fast-paced, highly produced, one-hour teaching DVD from Jonathan Cahn and the WND Films team that brought you “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” is called “The Masada Mystery.”
For 2,000 years, God kept a scroll hidden on top of Masada in the Israeli wilderness waiting for the Jewish people to come back to the land and uncover it. Discover this awesome prophecy of God and what it has to do with you in Cahn’s “The Masada Mystery.”
Cahn is the author of The Harbinger, which, like The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment, claims that events on and after 9/11 parallel the Biblical account of God’s wrath against Israel’s faithlessness. The book is currently a top-selling Christian paperback in the USA. Cahn’s “Masada Mystery” seems to be a recycled effort from before he was famous – it’s also listed as a DVD and CV on his own website, although dated to 1998.
As far as I am aware, the only source to have published anything about ”a scroll hidden on top of Masada” is a certain Donovan Joyce, who wrote a crank paperback in the 1970s entitled The Jesus Scroll (subtitle: “a timebomb for Christianity?”). Joyce claimed to have been shown the scroll by a certain “Dr Grosset”, and that it contained Jesus’ own account of his life after surviving the crucifixion. Inevitably, Jesus had married Mary Magdalene and become a father, and he also described himself as the last Hasmonean king of Israel. Alas, however, Grosset then took the scroll to the Soviet Union and was never seen again, so we have to take Joyce’s word for it all.
Read the rest of Richard’s debunking of WND’s pimpings and dilettantisms. But before you do, allow me to present WND its well deserved Dilly:
What:
‘RevelationS’… oh for the love of (and that’s the least of the horrendous atrocities!)…
Who:
Political science major? Says it all, doesn’t it. So…
Here’s Your Dilly, Elizabeth!
The book of Revelation in the landscape of Utah my right nose-hair. What next, the book of Isaiah represented in a pile of dog excrement?
Again, for some, the Bible should be unavailable. They don’t read it, they don’t comprehend it, and they continue to speak, without reason, as though they do.
Before the election, Cindy Jacobs hosted a “Reformation Day” prayer rally in which speaker after speaker prayed/prophesied that President Obama would be defeated and Jesus glorified in the election. Among the speakers was Dutch Sheets, who proclaimed that the “systems of anti-Christ” that bound the nation would be broken … but that obviously didn’t happen, as Obama was re-elected, which has prompted Sheets to now declare that God’s wholesale judgment is about to rain down on this nation because ”God has put up with all of the mocking He intends to from Barack Obama”.
God has put up with a lot from every lying politician we’ve ever chosen. Think Bush and wars for oil or Kennedy and rampant Whitehouse profligacy or Thomas Jefferson trolloping it up with his slave. These Pentebabbleists are really something when it comes to hubris. Perhaps they should read all those texts in the Old Testament about the punishment awaiting false prophets and then have themselves a meet-up at a rock quarry and go at it till they all receive their just recompense.
Two more friends of mine had dreams in which Barack Obama was named Belshazzar {see Daniel chapter 5). This was the ruler in Babylon who saw a hand writing on the wall of his palace – as lie and his friends were mocking God. The ominous message written by the hand of God was, “You have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.” The writing went on to say Belshazzar’s reign would end.
Dislocated misinterpreted Scripture- it’s the Pentebabbleist way. Here’s your sign, False Prophet Sheets-
These people really are nervy aren’t they, the sort who think that because they have a BA in philosophy it means that they’re qualified and competent to opine on a professional historian/scholar’s work. Mr Potemra should stick with what he knows; i.e., political speech writing (a.k.a., lying).
Here’s your Dilly Mr Potemra:
It’s a fact! And those ‘bible code’ crackpots think they’ve discovered the key to Noah’s Ark… Ha!
The book is about the discovery of what is believed to be Noah’s ark. A team of Turkish and Chinese explorers found a huge tree construction on top of mountain – Mt. Ararat in Turkey.
The book and its content will question the foundation of the theory of Revolution* and will raise confidence in the Bible as a historically reliable document, which once again has proven its credibility. It’s time for the truth to be revealed.
Author: Henri Nissen
It certainly is time for the truth to be revealed, so here it is: save your money, don’t buy this or any other idiotic book claiming to describe the discovery of Noah’s Ark. Especially one aiming to debunk the theory of revolution… [Eric Cline tipped me off].
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* sic!!!!!
