(October 3, 2016 at 1:11 pm)mcolafson Wrote:(October 3, 2016 at 12:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Easy to write a prophecy after the fact.
Well, that is what I want to know.
When a book was written (and probably who wrote them).
How do they figure out if a book was written before or after the fact
Everything prior to Ezra was written around 450 BCE.
The "prophets" and their "prophesies" are fictional.
There is also the fact that a number of the NT books were rewritten to have the main character fulfill these "prophesies", eg.
The Messiah is supposed to come from Bethlehem, one gospel admits that Jesus never came from there, but tried to cover it by claiming it didn't matter. A second gospel took the position that he did but stuck strictly to Jewish prophesies. A third threw caution to the wind and had line-up of astrology, greek mythology, persian mythology, a long dead roman governor, a non-existent census and mass murder.
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Evolution - Adapt or be eaten.
