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[challenge entry] Found in the backroom of the museum
A rare signed first edition of the Bible...


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(I helped save b3ta! Razor What the fuck - a sig?, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:02, archived)
# hehehe
jesus dots his i's with a circle.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:06, archived)
# It's also impressive
that he could sign a copy of a book that relates in detail the circumstances of his own demise...
(cattleprod, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:08, archived)
# Well the whole resurection bit
was tacked on a hundred or so years later by a church trying to increase its appeal.

/serious
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:18, archived)
# it was all edited and written
by roman scribes for a roman audience, around the time of the (forgets name of decree) that legalised christianity in the 3rd (4th?) century

a lot of it was old scrolls and stories passed down through the generations, the romans made it passable to their audience of the time
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:22, archived)
# You're right - 323AD I think
There's a whole load of stuff left out as well

apocrypha clicky
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:27, archived)
# we want to be careful
this is almost a serious discussion (we'll have the bloody templars down on us like a tonne of bricks)
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:48, archived)
# You'll be expecting the Spanish Inquisition, next.
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 13:16, archived)
# Indeed
t'Onion
(cattleprod, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:31, archived)
# Hello?
Saviour of mankind?
The ne true god?
Jehovah?
*sound of thrown rocks and cries of 'Blasphemer!'*
(I helped save b3ta! Razor What the fuck - a sig?, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:20, archived)
# Jesus
is a twelve year old girl
(I helped save b3ta! Slim has found god. He was down the back of the sofa., Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:08, archived)
# ha ha
I was rooting around in the attic the other day and found the original copy of the bible. Which was nice.
(I helped save b3ta! Slim has found god. He was down the back of the sofa., Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:07, archived)
[challenge entry] Meme theme.
Residing in a cupboard in the Vatican:
(I helped save b3ta! Doctor When May your wife shat and chipper, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:21, archived)
# Jehova
spells his name with an "I"...it was on Indiana Jones....but other than that "WOO YAY"
(flangecakes, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:25, archived)
# If it was in Indiana Jones
it must be true, like the Holy Grail and that old knight blokey.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:38, archived)
# Sir
Cliff Richard?
(Jim Pooley, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:46, archived)
# Yes.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:48, archived)
# You missed this:

But I'll let you off.
(I helped save b3ta! Doctor When May your wife shat and chipper, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:42, archived)
# isnt Jehovah derived from
Yahweh?
(Jim Pooley, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:44, archived)
# Yahweh?
Wooyay!
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:52, archived)
# signed bibles
Oddly enough a group of friends and I, when regularly staying in Hotels ALWAYS sign the free bible on the bedside table

"All the best....God"

well, its funny at the time
(DrTchock reporting live from the White Chocolate Farm, Tue 5 Nov 2002, 12:47, archived)