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Originally Posted by mickydaniels
So what if the gospels were written after Jesus' death? Don't people write biographies of persons after they die? Is everyone's memory really that bad?
No paper to write on in those days? Why am I reading the Peloponnesian War, which was written more than 400 years before Christ?
Why does it say in the Old Testament that the King has to make his own copy of the law that was handed down from Moses?
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You don't get it. If someone wrote a biography of someone who died in the year 1960, it is completely different than the Bible. Example: we know Einstein encouraged the development of atomic weapons, there is the actual letter that he wrote to Rossevelt. We know he invented the E=mc^2 physics law, because there were people there, on first account, when he did it, and recorded it.
But when there's no way to record such events for a long period of time, the stories get changed. That is a human fact. Don't believe me? Why not listen to some of the gossip at your school, and tell me how close it is to the "real story". I've heard and seen so many situations where stories get completely turned upside down that I cam't even count them. They are perfect examples. Jesus may have healed someone, but some other guy probably said "YEAH! HE DID IT JUST BY TOUCING THEM OMG IT WAS SO AMAZING", but he probably wasnt there,, he just heard the story from someone else and changed it. Eventually, when things were written, the writers wrote from what they thought they knew, and what they heard. They had no real facts to prove that it happened.
They had other ways to write, such as on stone. And it was mostly people of high rank who had success to such things.
But anyway, it is pointless to argue because neither side has the right facts. I don't dislike religion, and I don't dislike those who follow it, I just don't believe it.