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Originally Posted by donb9006
That's the thing...I have. And it's how I've come to my conclusion. Nobody wrote anything down...at the time. I'll ask again...why? It's ALL written after the fact...30+ years after the fact. Tell me, how well do you remember what a preacher you saw once said to you 30 years ago? Why didn't Jesus hook up with anyone who was literate?
And Josephus, the Jewish historian, he wrote all his "history" many years after the fact through memory. Look it up if you don't believe me. He sat down in his elder years and "wrote the history" as he remembered it.
People really should study the things they base their lives upon...just saying.
Your "religion" is dependent on where you are born. If we were in the middle east, you'd be arguing why Muhammad is the way to salvation. If we were in India, it'd be Hinduism you'd be arguing for. We happen to be in he US where it's Christianity that everyone believes "is the way".
I'm not here to drive anyone away from their religion...only to open their eyes to the fact that it's all written and interpreted many years after the fact. What you "know" is someones opinion many years after the event happened. Things written a hundred or more years later are taken as "gospel"...as the truth. But we don't know what really happened.
I'm simply saying...for "God" to spread his word to all of mankind...he could have done it MUCH differently and more effectively. If "I" were Gods messenger...I'd have learned to write...and I'd have written down what I wanted people to follow. As it is now...we have 5000 different interpretations of what Jesus meant. Why? Because Jesus didn't write anything down. Poor foresight? From God?
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Well said and I see it just as you do. Great post. This is a very civil and insightful thread that is followed and commented on by many of us members with wonderful thoughts and information from all. Please admin, allow this one to run out of gas of its own accord.