{"id":9495,"date":"2023-11-05T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","slug":"not-a-fan-of-jc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9495","title":{"rendered":"NOT A FAN OF JC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #0f1111\">This is a follow up to yesterday&#8217;s post about author Dennis McKinsey and his apparent obsession with proving the Bible to be full of errors. While I was on his Amazon page for his masterpiece <i>The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy<\/i>, curiosity drove me to read some of the reviews.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #0f1111\">I discovered that McKinsey&#8217;s audience is happy to consume what he is feeding them. Lots of 5 star reviews!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #0f1111\">Below you will find a review fairly representative of McKinsey&#8217;s readers and their impressive analytical skills.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #0f1111\">(I found it equal parts hilarious, tragic, and frustrating.)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #0f1111\">[McKinsey] shows that the Bible is so loaded with errors that it can&#8217;t possibly have been guided by God. It is a purely human work, and a lousy one at that. McKinsey proves that beyond all doubt. A few specifics about JC (Jesus Christ):<br style='background-color: white;color: #0f1111;font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif'><br style='background-color: white;color: #0f1111;font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif'><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #0f1111\">He spoke mostly about morality and about his intimate relationship with God, but his behavior was anything but what &#8220;God&#8217;s son&#8221; should be. He was rude, impatient, violent at times, insulting, and quite anti-family. Bibliolaters who say Christianity is the last hope for the traditional family apparently don&#8217;t know beans about JC. And JC&#8217;s moral teachings such as the SCILF (Sermon on the Contradictorily Identified Landscape Feature: Matthew-mountain but Luke-plain) said very little that&#8217;s not implied by the Golden Rule. And despite desperate assertions by fans of JC, he was NOT in the earth for 3 days; Friday night to Sunday morning is 1.5 days, even with the Jewish way of counting days.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #0f1111\">Seems like he learned a lot!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #0f1111\">I don&#8217;t know about you, but this <i>almost <\/i>makes me want to read the book for myself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #0f1111\">Unfortunately, it&#8217;s $60.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a follow up to yesterday&#8217;s post about author Dennis McKinsey and his apparent obsession with proving the Bible to be full of errors. While I was on his Amazon page for his masterpiece The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy, curiosity drove me to read some of the reviews.\u00a0 I discovered that McKinsey&#8217;s audience is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9496,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions\/9496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}