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OMFG. Bob's so contradictory in this entire tweet thread it's unreal, but the most mindblowingly hypocritical part is where Bob replies to a libertarian pro-lifer who's going to a babby shower and gonna whisper to in utero kid "i'm with you", saying he hopes the kid inside hearing it kicks hard enough (coincidentally? reflexively?) to knock the fetus whisperer's tooth fillings out (which is goddamn IMPOSSIBLE). It makes no goddamn sense why a fetus would kick a person who wants it to live, for the 'crime' of wanting it to live. It makes no sense for Karma or Fate to organize a situation for that to happen. It's so contradictory, it almost seems like Bob is behaving like the fetus IS a thinking person, even while he
NO, Bob did NOT 'study the Bible professionally', any more than I did. To study it professionally would mean to study it AND GET PAID FOR IT. Which I highly doubt was the case for Bob. Studying it in Catholic School doesn't count. The fact that he repeats standard fedora-tipper boilerplate about "Two different 'in the beginnings'" and "Four different Jesus Bios" is indicative of his inexcusably ignorant, misinformed view.
The narrative nature of Genesis and the fact that two different times "In the beginning" (Genesis Ch1 and Ch2) was used, doesn't mean diddly squat to prove Bob's point. Atheists like to point to this as "two different creation accounts", but that's not it at all. Genesis 2 starts with a summation of what happened in Ch1 before going into what was happening in the Garden of Eden - having Adam name the animals and then making Eve. This is evidenced by the phrase "These are the generations [Hebrew toledot] of...".
Speaking of toledot, this is also an issue with the alleged multitude of Jesus Bios. There's actually only two (maybe there's more in the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal works?). Some say one is Joseph's line while the other is Mary's. Matthew's account can be explained as a technique common in his day where typical of oral traditions, putting Jesus' lineage into 3 blocks of 14 (matching the numerical equivalent to the name David which is 14) was a type of memory device so people would more easily remember. It didn't have to be exhaustive, because that wasn't its purpose. It most likely was condensed, with some names removed, but the important names left in. Besides, Luke's goes all the way to Adam but Matthew's only goes to Abraham. Bob, if he were any sort of scholar at all, would know this.
Speaking of toledot, this is also an issue with the alleged multitude of Jesus Bios. There's actually only two (maybe there's more in the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal works?). Some say one is Joseph's line while the other is Mary's. Matthew's account can be explained as a technique common in his day where typical of oral traditions, putting Jesus' lineage into 3 blocks of 14 (matching the numerical equivalent to the name David which is 14) was a type of memory device so people would more easily remember. It didn't have to be exhaustive, because that wasn't its purpose. It most likely was condensed, with some names removed, but the important names left in. Besides, Luke's goes all the way to Adam but Matthew's only goes to Abraham. Bob, if he were any sort of scholar at all, would know this.
Also, Bob and his fedoratipping senpais and angels are idiots. Multiple instances of (identical) Ten Commandments means nothing other than, they're being repeated, because reinforcement is important besides the fact that the Children of Israel clearly needed it being repeated, because they kept fucking forgetting them.
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