(January 2, 2022 at 2:42 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Bible talked in circles from the start because it is wrong from the start. The beginning is all about how life is hard and how people have to work hard just to survive, which was true until recently, but now we invented all these machines so that we don't have to work so hard to have some food. And, in the past, even with a lot of work the hunger and starvation were common.
Just take tractors that make plowing a child's game. No more tedious work with the oxen and sticks for days on end.
Now with all those machines, it seems that we ridicule the Bible and make it obsolete. So you can imagine if the Bible started with "Life is hard, but here is what you can do..." and give people some advanced instructions on how to ease their survival, instead of "Life is hard and it is all your fault."
By the time that humans developed a language, much of the prehistory has been forgotten. It looks like their (the ancient jews) earliest memories are about agriculture and boats, copper, gold, grass, silver, iron.
There isn’t anything about leaving Africa. Nothing about Neanderthals. Nothing about making stone tools. Nothing about being cavemen. Nothing about discovering Europe, Asia, Oceania, America, Hawai and many small islands.
Science came along to fill in some of those knowledge gaps.
Somehow, ancient humans have developed this idea that you have to make the gods happy so that they would make good things happen to you. This concept seems to be present in a few cultures (sacrifices, gift giving to the gods, obeying the rules).
The Bible doesn’t even explain how gold was first discovered. How did they discover how to prepare copper, zinc, tin, iron, alloys. Who discovered it? How did they prepare a crucible? How did they decide that they could melt it? How did they prepare a mold and discover the materials needed to make a mold.
The Tanakh authors had no clue. Nobody remembered anymore who made those discoveries probably because those discoveries were made a few thousand years before them.
There isn’t anything about who made the first tools. There isn’t anything about who made cloths. History doesn’t record who the inventors were.
The Bible talks about Egypt quite a bit and from early on. There isn’t anything about the evolution of egyptian culture. It just suddenly claims there is an Egypt and a Pharaoh. Where is the information about the Sphinx, the pyramids, who came up with the idea to build pyramids? What were the early forms of burials like in Egypt?
An archeologist/egyptologist can answer such questions.
According to the tanakh, the jews grew up over there for generations (?) yet they seem to know nothing about egyptian culture if we look at the tanakh.
