(August 24, 2012 at 12:08 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(August 24, 2012 at 6:14 am)spockrates Wrote: Ever play the game in elementary school where the kids get in a long line and the teacher whispers something in the ear of the one at the front of the line? That kid whispers what she heard to the kid behind her, and she in turn whispers what the kid told her to the next one in line, and so on. Ask the kid at the end of the line what he was told and it is ridiculously different from what the teacher told the first one in line.
Even a child knows that passing on a message by word of mouth is unreliable. So if you were a god and wanted to convey some message that would be least likely to become distorted over time, how would you go about it?
I'm not sure, but the last way I would go about it would be to have it as an oral history passed down through generations (OT) or decades (NT) before anyone wrote it down, and not preserve any of the original documents so that even those are lost to time.
Why do you think it oral, rather than written?
"If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains (no matter how improbable) must be the truth."
--Spock
--Spock
