Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Bible was written to control the masses, which has successfully done for more than 2000 years, and continues to do so.When you write a book like that, while on drugs or any other way, come back to us 馃槉
Not really, it was put together largely for that purpose but it seems to me that few (if any) of the authors had that specific intention in mind more than most writers.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Not really, it was put together largely for that purpose but it seems to me that few (if any) of the authors had that specific intention in mind more than most writers.
We don't know what the original Bible looked like. Once Rome made Christianity official religion, large chunks of Bible were destroyed and new random things inserted - hence lack of flow. (or any religions book, really).
People responsible for the Bible we have now had their security and power in mind, more than anything else.
I believe Christianity, originally was a hippie religion, of then ''new age''.
Originally posted by lil bitchiness
We don't know what the original Bible looked like. Once Rome made Christianity official religion, large chunks of Bible were destroyed and new random things inserted - hence lack of flow. (or any religions book, really).
I don't know of any specific examples from the Roman times, but when the King James Bible was written, lots of deliberate mistranslations were made. I can't remember what the line was originally, but it was changed to something like "you shall not suffer a witch", and was politically motivated to, at the very least, justify the religious persecution of "witches" (re: personae non gratae).
Originally posted by Sado22
wasn't Mark the one who wrote the first gospel, while Mathew and Luke pretty much copied it (using the term rather loosely) along with another gospel (Q) as a reference?i'm no pro on the subject that's why i'm asking.
No one know who wrote the gospels, however, they were not written by their name sakes.