(April 28, 2019 at 10:43 am)emilsein Wrote: Yes but 3,000 years worth of research we have manuscripts more than any literature in history well over 10,000 and they all say the same thing for the most part, with some obvious little differences, if it was really made up wouldn't they of been changing it each time instead of just copying from one to another verbatim? if the christians were reajlly liars as u claim then why wouldn't they add stuff to make it even more believable instead of just leaving t he OT and NT the same all these years?Um no they do not.
Why wouldn't each reader just start changing stuff if it was just made up by everybody? Or were there certain writers? Why wasn't it change
The Hebrews in reality, were really nothing more than "Yahwehists" of the polytheism of the prior Canaanites who managed to take that character and promote it as the only god, when it started out in polytheism as a lesser deity under the head god El who was the top god of the "divine family."
No different than accepting the Rasta religion is a spin off of African Jewish/Catholic motifs.
And it doesn't always have to be about lying. Humans sell garbage all the time they truly believe in. You can truly believe what you claim and be dead wrong at the same time.
Just like when I was a kid, there was a time I'd tell you Santa was real, and truly believed it. But it didn't matter how much I wanted it to be true, I was still wrong.
Just like the ancient Egyptians were successful for 3,000 years buying and selling claims of Ra and Osiris and Horus and Isis. All that success still did not make those gods real.
One can believe what they claim, and also be wrong at the same time.
