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The word "Bible" refers to the canonical collections of sacred writings of Judaism and Christianity.
Judaism's Bible is often referred to as the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, which includes the sacred texts common to both the Christian and Jewish canons.
The Christian Bible is called the Holy Bible, Scriptures, or Word of God. It is divided into two parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament; some versions also have an Apocrypha section. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canons contain books not found in the Tanakh, but which were found in the Greek Septuagint.
More than 14,000 manuscripts and fragments of the Hebrew Tanakh exist, as do numerous copies of the Septuagint, and 5,300 manuscripts of the Greek New Testament, more than any other work of antiquity.
Remember the Flood story from the Bible. You know, the one where a man puts his small family in a boat with a ton of animals from all over the planet, battling stench and refuse after the world is flooded for 40 days and 40 nights? Well, the Skeptic Report debunks that whole myth; as if anyone believes that kinda stuff anymore.
Bible Verse:“Ye turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven” – 1Thessalonnians 1:9-10.
On the question or the Bible in public schools
The educational establishment's focus on tests and accountability has, combined with a lack of reading and imagination, coupled with governmental mandates, left us with generations with no sense of geography, history or our cultural and literary heritage. We have lost the ability to exchange ideas.
Arcade Fire's new album, "Neon Bible" debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 last week, with 92,000 copies sold. A small, independent label band with over 90,000 albums sold in just one week. And an SNL performance just a couple weeks ago. Can indie music finally get the publicity and attention it deserves in the mainstream world?