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- From: jsv@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Julian Visch)
- Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
- Subject: Who wrote the bible?
- Message-ID: <BxsEx5.3zt@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 02:29:29 GMT
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury
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- Considering the fact that the Bible's time period was well over a hundred years
- there can't have been just one person who wrote. In fact the story of Adam & Eve
- was before writing had been developed, therefore the story must have been past
- down my word of mouth. Which must cause changes to occur which leads one to
- wonder how accurate the story can be, especially as in the time when the bible
- was written only men were able to write and therefore it would have a sexist
- point of view.
- This raises the question of the apostles, were there only 12 or were there in fact
- 24 but 12 were female and therefore because of the sexist view at that time they
- weren't mentioned.
- For anyone to to be able to read the bible properly, one would have to have
- studied the way language was used in that time. But the problem with that is that
- one can not tell what information was changed or left out and therefore one has
- view the Bible with a great deal of scepticism, to do otherwise would be to
- fooling ones self.
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