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Maybe this is how the bible was written, rewritten and evolved over time.

It just started out as some young obnoxious guy with a lute making mad music in ancient Mesopotamia. Everyone panned his music, then after he died, someone translated it to a new language, a few hundred years go by and it got translated again, then a few hundred years went by and it got translated again and after the fourth translation, we end up with the first book of Genesis.

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Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Maybe this is how the bible was written, rewritten and evolved over time.

Nope. But it is sometimes in how it is interpreted, and translated.

We have biblical manuscripts that date back past 100 BC. Can’t rewrite something which we have original manuscripts of.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_manuscript

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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You say that as if there wasn’t plenty of time before 100 BC for the stories to evolve.
  
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  - zirconium886@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Or that translations that are still in circulation don’t translate the original manuscripts (cough cough KJV)
    
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    ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Or come up with a new version (cough cough Koran)
    
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  - Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I wonder if those stories even matter, like they are from a culture so far removed from us (over 2 thousand years) that the lessons probably should be hard interpreted.
    
    We wouldn’t like people to have differing opinions about stuff? Everyone should believe what we believe, think what we think. /s
    
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    grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I have no idea what point you’re trying to make, or what I wrote to provoke your angry tone.
    
    All I’m saying is that (for example) if Moses supposedly wrote the first five books of the Bible and he lived circa 1200-1500 BC (various estimates mentioned by Wikipedia), but the oldest surviving copy of those books is from 100 BC, that’s 1000+ years of potential change that we have no way of knowing about.
    
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Hmmmmmm, well that certainly tracks with human behavior. Kind of like how there was a meme that the earth was flat. Nobody actually BELIEVED it. It was just a funny joke to explain why sailors would come in, and then sail off, and you’d never see that sailor again.

So, ha ha, funny meme, earth is flat.

Then hundreds of years later, people discovered that people “used to believe the earth was flat”. Wow. What stupid people those guys were hundreds of years ago, huh?

Then it gets discovered nobody ACTUALLY believed that…but they do NOW. You know. Currently. AFTER we’ve been to space, and photographed the planet while not currently being on said planet. Only AFTER space travel did people revisit the earth being flat, and seriously unironically believe that.

So I can’t believe ANY of the bullshit IN the bible. But I can totally believe it began as a meme, got out of control, and now it’s just “fact” to some people.

…and by “some people” I mean gullible morons.

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