You know "the word of god" is made up of 66 books written by different people all around the "inhabited earth" at the time, and they all wrote about the same thing right? It would be like some one in NY writing about a specific person and at the same time some one in California writes two sequels of that very story without even knowing he did and then 2 more people in india decide to write about that same person and make 2 prequels... that has never happened before except for the writing of the bible.
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I don't know of any contributions to the Bible made by anyone in the Americas, or Australia, or Japan. No, it wasn't written by people "all around the inhabited Earth." It was written by people in a small part of the Middle East.
@MK
Nice Wolfgang Pauli reference.
Also, it would be like several people from different sides of France writing a "holy" book about a god who wants to kill you for eating t3h sh3llfish.
"It would be like some one in NY writing about a specific person and at the same time some one in California writes two sequels of that very story without even knowing he did and then 2 more people in india decide to write about that same person and make 2 prequels..."
Hebrew. Aramaic. Greek.
...oh, and if we're bringing India into it, there's the little matter of Hollywood's Harrison Ford film adaptation of the David Janssen TV series "The Fugitive" in 1993.
Just two years later, there was "Criminal"; which - apart from the traditional 'song & dance' routines - was a virtual shot-for-shot remake by Bolly wood.
'Never happened before ', you say? How did we get to learn about Sumerian mythology, if not for the Cuneiform writings by the later Babylonians...?! Two words: Rosetta Stone.
@Dr. Shrinker
You took the words right out of my mouth. [/Irony] They probably live in Manehattan. [/"MLP:FiM" 4th series] X3
@Lizuka
He probably thought that the British "Dennis the Menace " comics were published by DC; the fact "The Beano" is published by Scotland's DC Thompson - and completely unrelated to "Batman"/"Superman" et al's DC, would confuse a stupid person.
...but to confuse him further, there have been crossover graphic novels with Batman, and Judge Dredd. Which character - despite his setting in a major East Coast US metropolis - is in fact British -created...?! >:D
Land area of earth, 150 million sq km area: areas inhabitable say 75 million sq km: lands where the Bible was written 65 thousand sq km.
Peoples who had never heard of the Jewish bible myths, Indians, Chinese, Mesoamerican cultures, Slavic cultures and many more.
There are more than 66 books that were written to be the word of Yahweh. Councils of men sat down and decided which books would be canon. Obviously, they didn't pick randomly. Those books which fit the agenda were kept, those which did not were scrapped. Pretty much all Biblical authors knew about the books which had been written before them. The Gospel of Matthew, for example, uses the Gospel of Mark as a source.
I don't recall any Bible books from the Chinese, Indians, Native-Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, Native Australians, etc.
P.S. Though he patently didn't write all the books credited to him, Paul wrote more than 1 biblical book, therefore "66 books written by different people" cannot possibly be true.
at the same time
Or in this case anything up to 2,000 years later...
without even knowing
So completely not knowing that they even fucking referenced the previous books in the crap they wrote...
that has never happened before except for the writing of the bible.
Didn't even happen with the Bible... which you'd know if you read the fucking thing!
"You know "the word of god" is made up of 66 books written by different people all around the "inhabited earth" at the time"
Which part was written by people in china? Or was china not "inhabited" at that time?
Except it was a fairly condensed geographical area - Greece to Iraq to Egypt I believe, although most were composed in modern Israel/Palestine - and over a period of many centuries, so people were familiar with the books written before them.
Except the Bible and its precursors are so related beyond question that you have to have no idea at all about them to say such shit.
Other than that, yeah, but still inconsistant.
They DON't work together.
"... all around the "inhabited earth" at the time" And which "time" would that be?
I call word-salad on this one.
Please do not make fun of the psychotic, as Isaac plainly is, because mental illness is not a laughing matter.
You know "the word of god" is made up of 66 books
Only for Protestants, who recognize 39 OT books and 27 NT books. For Roman Catholics, it's 46 + 27 = 73, and for Eastern Orthodox, it's 51 + 27 = 78.
Christians can't even agree on which books God wrote. Luther had an ax to grind with the Catholic Church, and simply tossed out books that were not "on point". He would have dumped James if he could have gotten away with it - he called it "an epistle of straw" because it contradicted his beloved Paul on the issue of faith vs. works.
The "word of God" is less God's word than that of humans with an agenda.
Let's also remember that not only were these books written over centuries in a fairly small region, they were also written (and compiled, revised and edited) by priests and mystics, in other words people whose primary qualification was knowing their religion inside and out. (and being good bullshitters)
@Arctic Knight
"I don't know of any contributions to the Bible made by anyone in the Americas"
Technically, Mormons may disagree. :P
All around the "inhabited earth" at the time? Really? I'll bet a few people from South America to China and from Japan to Southern Africa would be mightily surprised to learn that.
P.S. Your analogy is up to the usual fundie standard, which is to say it's utter crap.
So why does the Book of Numbers mention the Book of the Wars of the Lord, which is not only not in the Bible, but of which no surviving copies exist? Of what is the Book of Esther, which, unlike all the other books, is set in Persia, a prequel or a sequel?
@isaac
"You know "the word of god" is made up"
...and I stopped reading there. Your first nine words say it all, really. Unconscious honesty much, eye-sac? [/hyper-smartarse] >:D
You know "the word of god" is made up of 66 books written by different people all around the "inhabited earth" at the time, and they all wrote about the same thing right?
I think all the people living outside the Middle East at that time would have been very surprised to hear that they didn’t exist
that has never happened before except for the writing of the bible.
The American TV series Star Trek“ and the German series “Raumpatroullie” (=Space Patrol) premiered both in September 1966 in their respective countries.
Among many other things, they have in common:
Such things happen, just take a look how often Hollywood studios release similar movies at the same time. And it’s not that the writers of the Bible didn’t know the other, older books, because they obviously did. So your analogy doesn’t even make sense.
"that's not even wrong"
So what else is new?
“It would be like some one in NY writing about a specific person and at the same time some one in California writes two sequels…”
Editors. They exist, and they’re not miracles. They just didn’t like the gnostic gospels.
Confused?
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