The end of time prediction is of course mere crap but as a lot of things it brings to our attention some conclusions.
"The Bible says..." ,"The Qur'an says..",other holly scripture say.. these are all generalizations which hide the fact that all of them were written by man,with a certain purpose.
Nobody wrote in ancient times and nobody writes today any text without a purpose.
Who wrote the Bible ,when and to what purpose is studied by scientists for about 200 years.
The latest version of it, sustained by arheological discoveries is that the Old Testament in his close to the known to us version was written in the 6-th century in the kingdom of Jehudah at the time of king Jehoshijahu.
The main purpose of it seems to have been the pretention of king Jehoshijahu to prove as a descender of king Davids dynasty of his rights to the territory of the than conquerred territory of the kingdom of Israel
by the Assyrians.
Predictions of end of times could possible have been to convince people to stick to the desires of the king,or else God will punish them by bringing about them a total cataclism.
The reality of this threat is evidently the same as those writen by Erasmus or other "true" or "false" prophets.
"The Bible says..." ,"The Qur'an says..",other holly scripture say.. these are all generalizations which hide the fact that all of them were written by man,with a certain purpose.
Nobody wrote in ancient times and nobody writes today any text without a purpose.
Who wrote the Bible ,when and to what purpose is studied by scientists for about 200 years.
The latest version of it, sustained by arheological discoveries is that the Old Testament in his close to the known to us version was written in the 6-th century in the kingdom of Jehudah at the time of king Jehoshijahu.
The main purpose of it seems to have been the pretention of king Jehoshijahu to prove as a descender of king Davids dynasty of his rights to the territory of the than conquerred territory of the kingdom of Israel
by the Assyrians.
Predictions of end of times could possible have been to convince people to stick to the desires of the king,or else God will punish them by bringing about them a total cataclism.
The reality of this threat is evidently the same as those writen by Erasmus or other "true" or "false" prophets.
