<p>^ Yeah, - Joseph’s mother was originally married to Heli who died without an heir. Jacob being a half brother of Heli took the widow as his wife (This was a law of commandment back then) and begat Joseph. So while Joseph is NATURALLY the son the Jacob, he is LEGALLY the son of Heli</p>
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<p>That’s all right. 
I’m not putting down everything in the Bible, but merely making an argument that some of it is, in my view, contradictory. </p>
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<p>It might be “the living Word of God” but it was written by divinely inspired – yet still completely fallible – humans. I don’t know if you noticed, but I am, indeed, Roman Catholic. And I believe, as do most Roman Catholics and many other Christian denominations, that the Bible is correct in terms of salvation. Much of Leviticus, for example, made perfect sense in Old Testament times, but seems silly and outdated now. </p>
<p>And, um, I have plenty of friends who survive just fine without the Bible… I also think that if I had just food, water, clothes, shelter, and no Bible, I’d survive just fine, too.</p>
<p>magneticpoet-I understand, I simply (respectfully) disagree. </p>
<p>As for the “food” thing..I believe they meant spiritual food, but I could be wrong. <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>@romaniangypsyeyes, I was referring to iwaswalking. it was based off of an earlier post, where he explained that another post of his was a joke, while I took it seriously and tore it apart.</p>
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<p>Eh, personally I was referring to the whole “you NEED it” bit.</p>
<p>that’s the thing. how can you say that you are roman catholic and not NEED the bible?</p>
<p>I still want to know how Judas died…</p>
<p>^ It was the terrorists, duh.</p>
<p>Romanygypsyeyes- Judas first hanged himself (Matthew 27:5) and then after his body decayed, his body fell to the ground and bursted open (Acts 1:18-19)</p>
<p>I can say I’m Roman Catholic and claim to not NEED the Bible because no one literally NEEDS (in all caps again) the Bible.</p>
<p>Calm down.</p>
<p>^ What are you talking about? My cousins, best friend’s, roomate’s, pizza divery boy’s, mother’s, great uncle’s cat actually died from lack of Bible in his diet. It was tragic, all over the newspaper.</p>
<p>lol not funny ^ but seriously, magnet, do u call urself a roman catholic just because or do you actually follow it ?</p>
<p>^Yeah, I mean part of being a Roman Catholic is being Roman Catholic. Also, powerbomb, you would be more convincing if you typed correctly. Really, it helpes a lot.</p>
<p>what do u mean?</p>
<p>The first part or second part?</p>
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<p>^ I know, if it was the second part, he really did not understand. lol</p>
<p>I am not religious at all. If I’m anything, I’m a little bit spiritual and I dabble in Buddhism.</p>
<p>I am not religious but I am open to the possibility of their being some incomprehensible force that is greater than us. Just because this force might exist does mean anything with respect to morality, afterlife, etc.</p>
<p>Pretty much to some things up, if some all knowing answer machine were to tell me that some force did exist but you know nothing of it nor could ever understand it I would be like, “Alright I can buy that”</p>
<p>But if the answer machine was like “the creation of the world and God is exactly like the bible says” I would be like “*** LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL trippy”</p>
<p>I’m Baha’i</p>