We Need a Ranking of the Most Ridiculous Claims in the Bible
How many claims from the Bible can you think of that are ridiculous? My ancient brain can only keep in mind a few at one time. There is raising the dead, walking on water, loaves and fishes, water into wine, flooding the entire world, the all-knowing and many others. Some believers will say the biggest fish stories are in the Old Testament. But, no, the New Testament also has some doozies. The tall tales begin right away in the New Testament, in its first book, Mathew. My favorite passage from Mathew is about what happened when Jesus was killed. It says the earth shook. It shook so hard graves opened up and long dead people walked out of these graves. Here, the author senses any reader may have some doubts. These doubts may have been expressed when the tale was told after dark as part of evening entertainment when light, like fires, was too expensive. Perhaps a wise-acre child said, "I doubt that." The story-telling entertainer might have replied, "The formerly dead peop...