Godless Bible Study: The Gospel According to John

A response to a challenge by a rapture-believing Christian that I read one chapter of John a day for 21 days.

Should make for some interesting video, don't you think?

Well, probably not. But I'm going to do it anyway.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• bible
• john
• gospel
• atheist
• atheism
• jesus
• christ
• christianity
• study

[DocFosters]

a german flag and what looks like a "fussball wimpel". whats that about?

[morsec0de]

My grandparents are from Deutschland.

[KingHeathen]

goatee is gone...I assume the role is over? How did it go?

On the "first" comment...Way to make such a thing important all of a sudden....DAMN YOU!

[morsec0de]

The role is indeed over, and it went well, thanks! Strangely, due to the positive response from certain members of the opposite sex, I may be growing it back.

[KingHeathen]

For some reason there is an episode of Family Guy that comes to mind...

I hope you don't own a dog.

[morsec0de]

No.

Plus it's just fun looking like the 'evil mirror universe' version of myself.

Hella fun.

[KayBeeEee1983]

(1) The King James Version is like a foreign language.

(2) If you haven't read any of the gospels, you should start with Mark. It was the earliest, it's the shortest, the simplest, the most basic, and it tells the most interesting story. It's the easiest to read, all around. Matthew and Luke were written sometime after Mark and used Mark as the basis of their own gospels. John was written last and it's very different from the other three.

[j919or]

This dude is so desperate to convince himself that Jesus is not God.

1. Light was a common term to refer to truth and darkness, lies

2. Johns audience was greek and well acquainted with logos/word.

3. Johns goal was not to present a historical narrative of the life of Jesus but merely to show who Jesus was using the form of historical narrative. I AM is repeated thru out

4. Jesus said that "my sheep hear my voice" plus an awareness of Jesus might have spread after the baptism by John.

[1993sugarbowl]

reading the bible without acknowledging God will never yield anything, I could have saved you all the time you wasted reading. That being said I hope for you that you try believing in him, that is what John said would help you have everlasting life in the third chapter and sixteenth verse. I dont really care what you think about this comment because I would have put it anyway. I am not ashamed of the father.

[FIXIErider]

Too bad you'll learn the truth the hard way.

[robbugman]

@thaiamer What rock have you been living under. First...atheist don't believe in a God, yours or anyone else's, now or then. Second....we live in this world too. We think this is the only one we get, so yeah, we take it a little serious when Nice religiouspeople fly planes into buildings or blow up Doctors because its Gods work or tell people not to wear condoms when over-population and HIV is rampant. This craziness is everywhere. Europe,Sharia Law, Science/Creation in schools. Hello.

[theboombody]

It's probably because Christianity was so dominant in the western world for so many centuries. Pretty much every western painting you can find in a 600 year period is a portrayal of some Christian scene. So of course there's going to be some cultural backlash. I like sticking with the old tradition myself though.

[theboombody]

I believe God's very mysterious and plays a lot of mind games. Why else would the Angel of the Lord have wrestled with Jacob in the book of Genesis? It's very hard to trust someone like that, but I say, what the heck, he looks like a fun guy.

[neoi78]

the beginning of john starts the same way genesis does. thats why. to show that infact jesus christ was God. God bless.

[Insomnium2188]

as for christians being supposidly more happy then atheists, thats appeal to emotion and straight bullshit