RE: The main reason I'm an atheist
May 2, 2016 at 5:07 pm
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2016 at 5:08 pm by abaris.)
(May 2, 2016 at 4:27 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: The fact that its claims about time and authorship have been heavily challenged by modern (Christian!) scholarship shows that it's something which was constructed by humans, over time, and that the times being claimed were not the times of actual writing.
Tales being told along caravan routes, at some time penned down by unknown authors for unknown reasons. Partly probably archaic books of law for a lawless society. Later on edited, reedited, translated multiple times into multiple languages, partly without sufficient knowledge to hit the right terminology used by the ancient languages.