Here's the way I see it. The Old Testament/Tanakh was originally compiled during the Babylonian Exile. Before that, all the books that comprised it were passed down orally over several centuries. Odds are that the original versions of those stories, and (if they did in fact happen) the actual events, would have likely been very different from the versions we all know, and it's quite likely that even those oral versions told at the time could have been altered to make the entire text more cohesive (at least as much as the final text was.) To find an analogue, study the history of the versions of any fairy tales you can think of, from Charles Perrault to Walt Disney, and see how different they are. Of course, despite being written by people from different parts of the globe, they were effectively part of the same Israelite/Jewish culture.
As for the New Testament, the authors all knew the Tanakh, and it's likely that they all knew that they were creating an expanded universe to it. Somewhat similarly to the situation with the Tanakh, it was finally compiled about a century or two after the events that they apparently covered, and, after codifying the beliefs of Christianity, the powers that be chose the texts that (in theory) squared with those beliefs the most.
As for the New Testament, the authors all knew the Tanakh, and it's likely that they all knew that they were creating an expanded universe to it. Somewhat similarly to the situation with the Tanakh, it was finally compiled about a century or two after the events that they apparently covered, and, after codifying the beliefs of Christianity, the powers that be chose the texts that (in theory) squared with those beliefs the most.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
