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napkin2020@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SpookyLights@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The joke is that the bible is “the word of god.”

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s not even textually true, as many books start with “this is X, son of Y, and I’m writing to you”. But people are functionally illiterate. 🤷

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    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They look at one verse, 2 Timothey 3:16 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,”

      and apply that to the entire Bible, including the letters written to different sects in different cities/regions clarifying rules to keep them from breaking apart. Kinda like from Ghost, they imagine god reaching down and writing through people I guess.

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      • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for the reply! In the end, to any reasonable adult, truth is evident from falsehood and “good words” stand by themselves. Solomon’s “everything is vanity”, Jesus’ “it’s easier for a rich man…”, James’ “faith without works is dead”, all of it just makes sense, and because they said (and did) a lot of deep shit that made sense these characters became iconic. But the words by themselves are meaningful or not! 👍

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    • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But many believe that god was the on really writing and that the person who wrote it down merely served as gods tool

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      • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean, anyone who’s spreading a good message is “serving as God’s tool”… but people are imperfect and fallible. And the many that believe ‘God was writing’ books that literally start with “Paul… to the Church of Corinth” or something like that are ‘religious’ the way I am a physicist because I understand things fall when I drop them, lol. People are intellectually lazy and lead mostly hedonistic lives, what’s new. 🤷

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People? Sometimes. Christians? It seems like a requirement.

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• spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In terms of the New Testament - There’s a few writers who based their stories off Macion’s Evangelion. And then some more who just made shit up for the sport of Apologetics. After that there were hundreds of scribes who poorly translated and changed the text, either by accident or on purpose.

  I haven’t seen the Stylometry of the old testiment, but I’m guessing it’s almost all stolen from other regious texts. Genisis alone has two competing creation stories.

  80+ authors is what I’m assuming.

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  • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For anyone interested share.google/Z0ograFRwlccW3HZc

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lol that was my thought but someone already explained it in another comment. That said, maybe there’s a signed copy of the Book of Mormon (well, rather the ‘transcriber’, lol)… or oh oh, or maybe Dianetics. I bet that’d be worth a ton.

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