KJV Holy Bible: The African American Jubilee Edition

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Summary: african american jubilee bible (english contempary )
Review: excellent book!eye opening. a must have for your church or bible study group.

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Summary: All in the Mind
Review: The Bible is a farrago of self-referring, primitive, superstitious, goat-herder stories - wilfully mistaken for something meaningful. It is kitsch, schmaltz, the crass and the coarse - cloaked in imitation profundity.

This book, and the cult built upon it, employ grandiloquence and elevated language, lofty stories, faux-gravitas, and spurious profundity merely as a device - to help followers generate warm mind-loops of self-comfort and brain-pleasuring thought-spirals.

This book of stories depicts fantasy figures called `Jesus' and `God' - invented by humans many centuries ago. It is purely and solely the drives of human culture and the products of neurological phenomena and obsessive thought-coils that have produced such a work. `God' is the product of neurological quirk, fused with ego-driven cultural obsession. The Bible and its cult-virus are an inane cultural framework for self-stimulating the brain and self-pleasuring on the resulting endorphins.

Babies fixate on the all-powerful, all-providing, all-knowing parent figure. This can become mentally fixed and set. The result is rigid, fixated God-belief in adulthood. This spreads like a virus through society, becoming fused into culture. Humankind projects all positive feelings onto an imagined cultural object, this gives it `God'. It projects (disowns) all bad feelings onto another cultural fabrication to produce `Satan'.

To believe this book as the word of `God' is merely to fail to recognise its solely human sources: emotional, neurological, cognitive, cultural, sociological. Man's habitual self-deception and delusional, repetitive thought patterns generate the facile drivel that is religious belief.

Why lie to yourself about this turgid work when there is no rational, logical, scientific, philosophical, evidential or intuitive basis for belief in this `God'? `God' is a fabrication of the human mind and exists solely and exclusively within the realm of cultural fantasy and people's imagination. `God' did not create man. Man created `God'. Man sustains this fabrication for selfish purpose and self-regard.

Someone called `Jesus' might or might not have existed but - manifestly - he was not the `Son of God'. As such, this book's core claim of `the Christ' is bogus and spurious. Humans wish to make sense of suffering. For some, `Jesus Christ' on the Cross is a culturally potent man-made symbol of altruistic sacrifice and of suffering.

Constructs of sinful, fallen man etc illustrate that Christianity is merely a fabricated construct employed by humankind/people to:

- understand their own suffering
- come to terms with their own suffering
- justify suffering by the person(s) experiencing it
- justify suffering by the person(s) inflicting it

The Bible and Christianity came about because humankind:

is driven to establish an upwardly directed relationship; has a need to create a socially accepted concept-mechanism as a device of personal self-comfort and emotional analgesia; needs to make sense of the world; has a psyche which desires to be immortal; has a tribal identity which it must aggressively feel and assert; has a tribal identity and enjoys being one of the crowd; possesses fears - both understandable and irrational; lacks sophistication in its early peoples about the world and the universe; needs to create and embrace some means for social cohesion and shared views; has a tendency to folly; feels an instinctive wish to relate to a flawless, all-powerful, all-benevolent father figure; is disabled by guilt and shame - the feeling that humans deserve to be pursued and punished by an all-powerful father figure; is fooled by the appeal of stories, myths, legends, mystery and the supernatural; is fooled by the power of fantasy and the appeal of magic; wilfully combines hope with self-deception; suffers the emotional bewilderment of bereavement and invents a `Heaven' to compensate; has a capacity to be driven by a vague, amorphous, unfocused, nebulous part of the mind and tell itself that some "god's" love or presence is found, felt and experienced there; is obsessively driven to build mental, physical and institutional edifices; has a love of bombast, ritual, hierarchy, solemn and precise ceremony - and repeated behaviours and physical movements; desires, in some way, to feel subservient, subjugated and punished or desires to be punitive; has a desire to relinquish responsibility for individual life; has a drive to control others and excuse behaviour; suffers quirks of neurological make-up; is a product of evolution - so such belief is a device for strengthening survival drives (optimism) in the face of difficulties encountered; is a product of evolution - so such belief is a device for strengthening survival chances by facilitating social cohesion; is sometimes hampered by a pattern-seeking brain and a symbol embracing mind; has a societal need to establish a means to spread guidance and strictures about how people, tribes, groups, citizens etc should behave towards each other; is driven to turn to something when physically or emotionally lost; is a lazy and sloppy thinker; can lapse into over rigid behavioural and thought patterns; and - longs to feel a belonging to something greater and beyond - and so invents such a realm.

Most of all, humans created `God' because of pride and self-importance - anthropocentric egotism about mankind's place in the universe.

If all of humankind were extinguished, `the Christ' and `God' would cease to be, since the mind of people is their sole locus of existence. Man creates ALL 'gods' out of egotism, vanity, insecurity, folly and the desire to manipulate.

Chances are that people who dislike this review will promptly generate ever more fierce and tight circles of fervent belief thought-loops in order to dismiss it.

On 7th day, man created God in his own image. Break out of the self-comfort mind-loops. Read something else other than Bible-swill. Abandon the God-mush brain-state endorphin spirals.

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Summary: Eternal
Review: The Bible is book containing various, stories, letters, poetry, songs and important historical accounts of various people sacred to the Jewish and Christian religions. Within all of this contain moral teachings and a profound understanding of the human spirit. This book is a guide for us all.

It is an extremely complicated book and much understanding is needed of the context in which much of it is written. One cannot simply read it cover to cover and say they understand it. There is much to be learnt and understood. Off-handed judgments applied from modern context are not applicable.

The book depicts many historical figures the most important of whom is Jesus Christ, believed by many to be the son of God. This book has had a profound influence on many human cultures and the many historical events within provide a rationale for the faith; it is not on empty faith that Christians believe, nor is it a product of irrational neurological impulse. God is not a product of the mind; denial of God however, is ego driven and irrational product of 19C scientific discoveries that are irrelevant to religious experience. The Bible and the religions that grew out of the teaching have provided a wonderful and successful cultural framework for many centuries of human experience throughout the world. While the faith is temporarily suffering decline in Western nations, it is growing at a large rate in third world nations oppressed by the brutality of Western experience which is largely the result of social Darwinism.

Babies fixate on the all-powerful, all-providing, all-knowing parent figure. This continues into adulthood as humans discover that like a young child, humans to have a creator that loves them unconditionally. Most humans believe in God and this belief is enshrined and celebrated in many cultures. Humankind projects many positive feelings onto God, the father, providing humans fulfillment, love and happiness in life. Much of the evil in this world is projected onto an angel called Satan who whether real or an imagined representation exists as the evil in this world, something Jewish and Christians must fight against.

To believe this book as the word of God is rational; testament to this is found within the evidence for the resurrection of Christ and the many followers who recorded and continued Christ's teachings, even under heavy persecution. Jews and Christians acknowledge that the Bible was written by man but know that they were divinely inspired. The Bible includes many characters, good and bad and shows that many of the prophets were not perfect. The fact that their faults were shown is further testament to its authenticity. As said in Psalm 14:1, "The fool says in his heart, `There is no God.'" This has a lot of relevance today.

Why lie to yourself about the existence of God when there is scientific, philosophical and a rational basis for belief? God created the human mind and allowed us the freedom of choice, therefore giving us the capacity to reject him and deify ourselves. God created man. Every human on earth is capable of knowing God and loving him.

There is historical evidence plenty of historical evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ and plenty of evidence for his resurrection, providing a rational basis for the belief that he is the son of God. Humans wish to make sense of suffering. God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but may have eternal life. John 3:16

Christianity is a religion based on rational evidence enabling mankind to:

- understand their own suffering
- come to terms with their own suffering
- grow as people and love
- know God

Among others.

The Bible and Christianity came about because of God:

The Bible gives us guidance and enables us to understand the world around us and our purpose within it. Give us moral guidance for living, preventing mankind from slipping into moral turpitude and learning to know and love each other and God.

Humans who deny God do so because of pride and self-importance and egotism about their own worth. Atheism is simply an irrational dismissal of revealed truth.

If all of humankind were extinguished God would still exist. Man denies God out of egotism, vanity, insecurity, folly and the desire to manipulate.

Chances are that people who dislike this review will promptly generate ever more fierce and tight circles of religious non-belief and thought-loops in order to dismiss it.

On 7th day, God created man in his image. Whether literal or an example, this holds true to this day for our place in this world. Read widely, hold on to the good. The Bible and its teachings will always be there when you need it. Acknowledge God and choose to follow him.

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Summary: african american jubilee bible
Review: this is a excellent book for youngters and grownups alike. full of facts about africans and thier place in the bible and the black church and its meaning in the african american community. full of beautifull color illustrations and is really hard to put down .

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Summary: Can't put it down!
Review: This is a very readable, yet scholarly presentation of the scriptures. I usually read the Bible through each year, and read as many versions as possible. This one has wonderful articles on African American history as related to the Bible, has nice large print so that it does not have to be held, has good references, and is faithful to standard translations. It is very readable, and hard to put down. One of my favorites that I will purchase for gifts.

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Summary: Recommended for students of Biblical & Black History studies
Review: This stems from the Jubilee Project, which aimed at drawing together Biblical study and Afro-American experience: it presents supplementary material which focuses on Afro-American connections to the Biblical past, and it considers places, peoples, cultures, and social and religious influences on early societies. Chapters introduce and provide overviews of black peoples of the past, while Biblical books open with introductions on themes. Footnotes provide extensive historical and literary explanation and detail. Holy Bible: African American Jubilee Edition is a 'must' for any Afro-American reader who would establish links between Biblical and black history.

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Summary: Recommended for students of Biblical & Black History studies
Review: This stems from the Jubilee Project, which aimed at drawing together Biblical study and Afro-American experience: it presents supplementary material which focuses on Afro-American connections to the Biblical past, and it considers places, peoples, cultures, and social and religious influences on early societies. Chapters introduce and provide overviews of black peoples of the past, while Biblical books open with introductions on themes. Footnotes provide extensive historical and literary explanation and detail. Holy Bible: African American Jubilee Edition is a 'must' for any Afro-American reader who would establish links between Biblical and black history.

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Summary: african american jubilee bible-leather-king james version
Review: very informitive, beautiful illustrations, a must have.if you don't own this,buy it as soon as possible