(January 10, 2022 at 10:08 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(January 10, 2022 at 9:58 pm)Spongebob Wrote: Correction. It's a collection of manifestos. The "Bible" is not a thing. It is a collection of stories, texts, predictions and other religion ramblings. No-one "wrote" THE Bible. And at least as many texts were destroyed as the number that made it into the final edition. Only those that were "approved", of course.The Bible wasn't edited for nefarious reasons.
It was written by various humans at various times and eventually, europeans joined the christian sect and they decided to bring together the various texts and they noticed inconsistencies and they had to decide what text to keep, what text to reject.
Probably, they modified some of the original text. For example, there are multiple versions of the Mark version. It looks like some of the manuscripts have survived however, most likely, they destroyed a bunch of them.
I had heard that there is a bunch of scripts call the Jesus infancy Bibles.
There is one book called the Book of Mary, which focuses on the life of Mary.
There is the Book of Jubilee.
There is the Assumption of Moses.
I don't think the Bible was assembled for nefarious reasons either.
They were trying to form a unified singular religion but that never happened.
