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YEA DUDE. IT IS best for sweet dunks. That’s WHY you should read it. Dummy!

Bible contradicts itself: Perfect. Memorize every angle and apply it when personally convenient.

Which magical crap is important… heretic. Every word is important. That’s why you memorize the entire Bible.

And it should be obvious that a spear-wound-less Jesus is a living Jesus. Because spear wounds make most people mega dead.

Actually the spear was inserted to see if they needed to break his arms and legs. Blood and water in the lungs proved he was dead so they didn’t inflict further harm.

Or something like that.

You’re right as far as I can recall anyways.

Crucifixion can cause a type of dry drowning, fluid building up in the lungs and such. Breaking the legs and arms prevents escape and I think it’s supposed to hasten their demise without alleviating suffering? There were a lot of variables in the practice.

Crucifixion does cause dry drowning due to fluid in the lungs, yes. One can last a little longer by adjusting the angle they’re hanging at however, by pulling themselves up. In other words, by bracing against the nails impaled through their limbs, worsening the wounds. Breaking the legs means that the person being crucified can’t brace themselves upward any more, hastening their demise.

Lol.

“Is he dead?”

“I don’t know man, poke him.”

*STAB*

“Is he bleeding?”

“Just water.”

“Fuck yeah, that’s lunch!”

It is amusing to see people who go “The Bible is BS! Also, I don’t remember anything from the Bible!” Like, I’m basically an atheist, but I actually have read the thing, and read about the thing, and read history surrounding it, and understand it. No, I don’t read Koine Greek or Aramaic or ancient Hebrew versions, but I am familiar with it, and it’s equally funny to see Christians reference it when all they know are a few stories from childhood Sunday school, and to see angry atheists reference it when all they know are gotcha videos from The Amazing Atheist and Amon Ra from like 15 years ago. Like, I dunno man, believe or don’t believe, but don’t lecture me about a book you are personally ignorant of, you know?

And also, I wish more people were taught some of the classics; yes, eveyone in the western world should know the Passion story, just like they should have some knowledge of traditional Greek mythology, these things that are the basis of our current civilization, like it or not. You don’t have to like or believe in any of it, but you should understand the stories that are the inspiration for even the stories we tell to this day, the timeless concepts and conflicts that guys like George Lucas specifically studied in order to make Star Wars what it was.

I’m a “recovering Catholic”, a.k.a. now agnostic, but I find things in the Bible which explain a lot, and my knowledge level of it means it’s a weak category for me on “Jeopardy!”

Most of the things which Thomas and Carol talked about some point back were new to me.

Glad you can understand it because I can’t understand it. Not only is it inconsistent between chapters buts its inconsistent from sentence to sentence.
-Moses comes down and smashes 10 Commandments and then smashes them. He says he is going to get the exact same ones but NOPE round 2 is completely different. It says no murder but Moses decapitates hundreds. And then Yahweh plagues everyone (why?). I still don’t know why we can’t boil a goat in its mother’s milk. And NOBODY online does either. One guy vaguely guessed and everyone parrots him.
-Noah is to bring two of each animals. Then two pairs. Then seven pairs. Then seven pairs of clean animals and X pairs of dirty animals. Fortunately the the appendix clearly defines NOPE no clue what is clean.
-Before Noah there are like two sentences about how angels descended to earth, had kids, and these kids were great warriors and kings. So there were centuries / millennia (?) where humans and angels f**ked and had epic wars… and all we get is two sentences. And I don’t want to hear that its referenced in another book which isn’t canon, blah blah. The Bible is supposed to be perfect so it should be understandable.
-Moses throws down his staff and Yahweh turns it into a snake. The Pharaoh’s priests do the same. So what, I guess the Egyptians Gods are totally real??
-Some kids call Elijah bald so Elijah summons two bears who maul over 40 kids to death. 1) big overreaction, 2) so followers can just summon bears at will? Bet Samson wish he had that power.
-Samson is a big hero. Yet he murders countless civilians to loot their shirts because he lost a bet. Then a hooker asks how to beat him, he gives a fake method, and suddenly hitmen appear with that (fake) method. This happens like 5 times and then Samson gives the correct answer and they beat him. I literally do not understand what is going on. Samson never suspected that the hooker was betraying him???
-Yahweh tells Moses to ask Pharaoh to let his people go for a 3-day weekend. Pharaoh agrees. Then Yahweh mind controls him and has Pharaoh say no. Then Yahweh murder’s Pharaoh’s kid because Pharaoh says no. WHAT?

Reggie seems like the type of guy who discards knowledge that doesn’t serve him in the here-and-now. Jesus being stabbed by a spear after he died isn’t useful in any measurable, meaningful way that Reggie can work out, so it’s nothing that needs to be remembered.

I feel like living in a very religious area and not knowing basic facts about that religion could make him unpopular. But, I can’t say I’m surprised that Reggie wouldn’t consider that, for example, many workers at that construction company he wants to take over are probably religious.

To be fair: he is 100% right. It is not that important. The story needs to establish that Jesus is dead so the he can actually be resurrected. Him being dead is what matters not how they determined that he is dead.
Later on different writers needed to write stuff so they just took existing stuff and expanded on it and so they just made stuff up.

It like how in Star Wars #4 the nerds analyzed the Death Star plans and saw an obvious design flaw. Nothing special. All vehicles have flaws.
But then decades later it turns out the it wasn’t an accidental flaw but an intentional flaw with such an in depth backstory it takes a (really kickass) movie + two season TV show to fully flesh out.

So yea, its impossible to read a story and know what to focus on when decades (centuries) later random bits will suddenly become super important in a completely separate story.

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