RE: Belief in white Jesus linked to racism
March 30, 2021 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2021 at 6:36 pm by Belacqua.)
(March 30, 2021 at 6:24 pm)jasonelijah Wrote: You do realize the Holy Bible is the oldest living document we have of early civilizations and how things were back then, there's lots of historicity in the bible, also lots of silliness, but you can't just write off the whole book just b/c u dont believe. It's the only book we have of the old ages.
I think you're right if you're taking about specific regions or ethnic groups. The Bible is the oldest set of texts we have from them.
Other groups have records that are pretty damn old, though. Egypt, for example, and Mesopotamia.
And it depends on what parts of the Bible you're talking about, and which scholars' dates you accept. Is the Moses story older than Homer? Was it written much later to portray events that were already long past?
I think "oldest" is kind of stretching it.
I agree with you, though, that it's an important document and should definitely not be written off.
