Introduction

About six years ago, sometime after I had an idea that I was being conned by even the most passive and tolerant of churches, I decided to pick up my very own New International Version of the Holy Bible and read it cover to cover.  I - as I'm sure many others have - heard all the rumors flying around about how the Bible has all these contradictions, or the fact that the god of the Old Testament is a malicious vengeful murderous god, yet Christ appears in the New Testament to correct God's temper and bring peace to mankind.  This statement usually leads Christians to saying that there's no point in reading the Old Testament, although it made little sense to me.  Why ignore the absolute foundation of the entirety of the religion?  It has to be important somehow.  Alas, I, in no way, could defend or oppose such claims, since I hadn't seen these things in scripture for myself.  Any argument I made in defense of what I considered to be common sense (or lack thereof on their part) to a believer seemed to be refuted by something akin to either a spin or a crafty dodge of my position.  Either way, I felt that my questions or debates on such a manner weren't being dealt with honestly.  Things just weren't adding up, and that's all that I knew.  But I couldn't hold my own with just this tiny bit of reasoning.  I needed to be better equipped with verses and well armed with knowledge to accurately and efficiently address my position and to better understand theirs, which - I had hoped -.would lead me to the Truth.  Well, it most certainly did, but not exactly in the way I had expected it.

In the following posts, I am going to share with the world (well, with whoever feels like reading this anyway) my little findings on this nonsensical belief system.  I'm going to apologize in advance about my approach on the first 17 books of the Bible, being as I've already read through them diligently once before, and have skimmed over them numerous times since.  So I may not be as thorough as I am with the books proceeding.  But I'll try to be as precise in noting the more important aspects as I can.

So... let's get started, shall we?  ^_^