[on why God had to have written the Bible]
But think about it, who is smart enough to write the Holy Bible? The answer, no one.
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How could people back then have written words with such intellegence? We were not very educated back then, we all know. So tell me, how could people back ages ago could have written the bible?
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Words fail me.
How could people back then have written words with such intellegence? We were not very educated back then, we all know....
"We were not very educated back then" right now , Dagger.
If you had read any books other than "My Pet Goat" and ... well, this one, you'd know that the bible is fair to middling at best in terms of its difficulty to read and scope of topics.
There are a lot of other texts from the same era that are much more profound, and more intelligently written. You can actually read many of them online for free. Check out Project Gutenberg, mate. Or visit your local library.
1. People generally wrote with the backdrop [please distinguish this from the fansical tales placed in that backdrop] of what was going on immediately around them. That wasn't true for everyone, but for the most part the writers didn't need to be experts in history or faraway lands.didn't write with such intelligence. Each has his own personality and human traits clearly visible through the text.
4. People weren't any more dumb than they are now and many were educated.
5. There is no incredible verifiable revelation in the Bible, such as a scientific fact not known at the time. There are, if you read literally, quite a few that are simply wrong. A very human artifact.
You want the absolute truth? People back then had what was called the bicameral (animal) brain. People had just recently developed language, and animal instinct was still very powerful in humans. Just as a deer jumps up and runs at sense of danger, so did humans. BUT, since language was new the people's instinct came to them in the form of a POWERFUL VERBAL COMMAND. Hence, "god" was discovered. There were a select few that were smarter back then who noticed people were gullible and took advantage of them. Thus politics and religion were born! Damn, times haven't changed much I see!
"But think about it, who is smart enough to write the Holy Bible? The answer, no one."OK, I've thought about it... again. I think that most barely competent, lack-luster hacks could have written the Bible. I'm awfully tired of this lame assertion that is often made in favor of the Bible, that it is "great literature." It is not. Every once in a while there is a Bible passage that is beautiful, but most of the Bible is poorly written crap. Translation after translation appear, but none is a very good read.
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"How could people back then have written words with such intellegence?"
Which words would those be? The two equally ridiculous creation stories? The silly Noah's ark saga? The story of "God's" cruel torment of Job? Smashing little children against the rocks? Moses and his pals practicing genocide and saving the female children for their own sexual uses? The whale/fish barfing Jonah onto the beach? Jesus/God creating hell?
"We were not very educated back then, we all know. So tell me, how could people back ages ago could have written the bible?"
Most of the people of that era were uneducated, but some could write, dipshit.
The general level of education was not as high as it is today, true, but some people were very well educated, and extremely intelligent.
We were not very educated back then, we all know. So tell me, how could people back ages ago could have written the bible?
That's exactly why we know the bible's written by people - it's a pack of superstitious, violent, mysogynistic, inaccurate, impossible shit and it provides a clear window into the rubbish they used to think back then.
But think about it, who is smart enough to write the Holy Bible?
Smart enough? Which parts, where he plagerizes, repeats facts, omit facts, or cherry-picks details? Is it the suspension of belief, inconsistant writing, baseless subplots, unanswered questions about various charectors, authors writing about their own deaths, cobbled together prophesies, clashes with reality, ignorance of science and physics? Was it the way god wrote the book so slyly that no one else in the world has knowledge of these minor charectors in world history? Because the scope of the bible is a small percent of the planet? The ignorance of other races? Of dinosaurs?
"People back then" not only wrote with intelligence and insight, but they did it without the wealth of readily available information that we have today. The bible was written in pieces by many very human writers. A very human council decided which books would be included as canon.
You just turned my head inside out, you bastard.
''How could people back then have written words with such intellegence? We were not very educated back then, we all know. So tell me, how could people back ages ago could have written the bible? '' .... if what you are trying to say here is correct, which it most definitely is not, then you are implying intrinsically that people at that time would be incapable of understanding the bible, or in turn, obeying whatever moronic commands it contains. The expression that goes with what you have just done where i live is ''shooting yourself in the foot''. Idiot.
Well, I'm not one to brag, but I can write fantasy and horror stories pretty well, actually. I'm kind of awesome like that.
In the beginning, God created Man and, eventually, a partner for Man. Adam and Eve, however, were eventually cast out of the Garden of Eden for sinning.
They had two children: Cain and Abel.
Now then, considering the only female human around is Eve, where do we go from here?
God sure works in mysterious ways. I wish he'd have left us a few footnotes to explain the more unusual wankery in the Bible...
But think about it, who is smart enough to write the Holy Bible? The answer, no one.
But think about it, who is daft enough to read the Holy Bible? The answer, you.
But think about it, who is smart enough to write the Holy Bible? The answer, no one.
How could people back then have written words with such intellegence?
We were not very educated back then, we all know
So tell me, how could people back ages ago could have written the bible?
"How could people back then have written words with such intellegence?"
What, you mean like all the "begat" stuff in Genesis? You could have gotten a trained monkey to write that.
>But think about it, who is smart enough to write the Holy Bible? The answer, no one.
We weren't banging fuckin' rocks together and hiding from bright lights...before we wrote your good book,we were building societies that lasted so long as to leave traces today. See perhaps Pyramids in either Egypt or Central America for an example you can still view today.
Or did God zap those into existence as well?
"We" refers to who in your case? Unless you're Jewish, I doubt you're talking about anyone in the area of Judah. "We" for me is various people scattered about Bronze Age Europe... meanwhile, the Greeks, Egyptians, Akkadians, Chinese, Persians, and some of the ancient American peoples were doing some pretty incredible things.
People apparently are not very educated these days either.
I think he answers his own question.
"People were really dumb back then, so they wouldn't be intelligent enough to come up with valid explanations for everything around them...Then why would they create a fictional being that can answer everything for them, without evidence or logic? Oh wait..."
Open mouth, insert foot.
Idiot.
"How could people back then have written words with such intellegence? "
The Bible ain't that hot. The whole thing could easily be translated into caveman grunts.
"*Points to gays* *Points to penis* *Points to rock* *SMASHES ROCK* *Point thus made*
Ever heard of the Romans or the Greeks? They were all "not very educated", while managing to invent things like the camera and geometry, were they?
"So tell me, how could people back ages ago could have written the bible?"
It's simple: ink, parchment, and a fuckload of acid.
I woke up and said to ye, "I am hungry." And so I did make toast and I did consume it and it was good. So I declared, "This toast is good."
But then came the time when I tired of my toast and was no longer hungry. And so I did throw away my toast which I had enjoyed so much and I did take out the trash and I did forget about my toast.
And then came the day where I would make more toast. And I said to ye, "This toast is very good."
Bible language sounds pretty retarded, to me.
The incredible irony is that modern fictional stories like Final Fantasy are about the only place where religious references are intelligent or have any sort of continuity.
"how could people back ages ago could have written the bible?"
They copied from the Babylonians, Persians, and others for whatever they could shoehorn into their stupid little superstitions.
But think about it, who is smart enough to write the Holy Bible? The answer, no one.
Right. None of those people were smart at all.
It is simplicity itself to write a book of random rambling that are not even cross-referenced.
You obviously haven't read the latest reviews of the Bible. Critics are bashing it's plot inconsistencies, muddy moral lessons, and constantly changing characters. Really shoddy writing, honestly.
As it reads like the word of ancient ignorant goat herders, it doesn't look like the Word of the Creator of the Worlds, who ought to know the physics of every minute detail in the Universe. Like, for example, Pi does not equal 3 precisely.
By the time the books of the Bible had been written, jammed together and wrapped up in a shiny cover 'people back then' had populated almost the entire planet, learnt to control fire, invented agriculture, the wheel and waterproof concrete, plotted the stars in the sky and discovered the secret of working metals. What have you managed to do ?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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