Why this big fuss over words written by goat herders thousands of years ago?

Question

Seems like we should be able to move on now, as a civilized culture.

And, also, no offense to present-day goat herders.

goat, n. - any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.

Answer 1

ok well u are just mad cuz u dont know Jesus so u just need to get over it hun... !k! then get some friggin courage to post a friggin question that makes some friggin sense ok? !k!...
ya...
bye

Answer 2

The fact is technicaly genuine for the 5 Books of Moses although the those that use it provide it a potential that it realy does not have. The Jews have been, as a human beings, goat and sheep herders. keep in mind that that's the reason they lived in the separate area in Egypt - with the aid of fact the Egyptians despised herders. that's additionally why the Jewish books are written on parchment (epidermis) extremely than the papyrus of the Egyptians (reeds). yet herding sheep or goats isn't a predicament on inteligence and studying. The fact although is punctiliously not genuine with admire to the later books of the Bible with the aid of fact the Iron age had already began. in the time of the rulership of Joshua, "iron sure chariots" have been the large-tanks of the middle east. by making use of the time of the Kings, Iron technologies became into common -- and, of direction, collectively as herding became into continually significant in Israel, the Israeli subculture became into based in distinctive cities and there became into additionally a stepped forward agriculture. For that rely, lots of the 5 Books of Moses is approximately setting up a medical, stepped forward, agricultural gadget. So whilst Samuel wrote dissimilar the books of the Bible, they have been already a very stepped forward Iron-Age Civilization.

Answer 3

I love the way genisis was written - by someone who wasnt there but heard a story of another guy who got his version from someone else, and so on.

Not exactly the word of god, more like the chinese wispers of god

and no daysleepernightcreeper, the bible wasnt written a couple of years ago. I think that we might be talking about the one writen 1800 years ago in a time before cocacola and xrays, where most people did keep goats.

Answer 4

Seems like everyone thought you were referring to the Bible. No, the Bible wasn't written by Goat Herders. He is referring to the Qur'an. I dint know why people fuss over that.

Answer 5

Such a statement with no knowledge behind it!
There were NO goat herders who wrote ANY of the New Testament
There were SHEEP herders in the old Testament.

Answer 6

Goat herding may have been done then, but I have never personally seen any goat herders, and I've been to Pakistan a few times, Kuwait, and other places in between. I've seen my bro in law who is the production manager for Coca Cola in Faisalabad in Pakistan. I have seen my other bro in law who is an X ray technician and has his own building near the house. My father in law is an ambassador over there. What goat herders are you talking about?

Answer 7

First, they were mostly shepherds, not goat herders. Second, the big fuss is the question that will be put forth to every single person when they meet God face to face - the question is:

"What did you do with Jesus' sacrifice?"

There are many who will answer that He is their Lord. There are many who will answer that they knew Him, but they did not. There are many who will answer they rejected Him.

The question is still valid - where will you stand on the Day of Judgment?

Answer 8

Umm, no goat herders wrote the Bible.

So which book do you refer to?

Answer 9

# General info on the Bible

1. The Bible consists of 66 books: 39 in the OT and 27 in the new. The Bible took about 1600 years to write. It was written in three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek) by about 40 authors and is internally consistent throughout.

# Reliability of the Bible

1. The Bible is 98½ percent textually pure. Through all the copying of the Biblical manuscripts of the entire Bible, only 1½% has any question about it. Nothing in all of the ancient writings of the entire world approaches the accuracy of the biblical documents.
2. The 1½ percent that is in question does not affect doctrine. The areas of interest are called variants and they consist mainly in variations of wording and spelling.
3. The NT has over 5000 supporting Greek manuscripts existing today with another 20,000 manuscripts in other languages. Some of the manuscript evidence dates to within 100 years of the original writing. There is less than a 1% textual variation in the NT manuscripts.
4. Some of the supporting manuscripts of the NT are:
1. John Rylands MS written around 130 A.D., the oldest existing fragment of the gospel of John
2. Bodmer Papyrus II (150-200 A.D.)
3. Chester Beatty Papyri (200 A.D.), contains major portions of the NT
4. Codex Vaticanus (325-350 A.D.), contains nearly all the Bible.
5. Codex Sinaiticus (350 A.D.), contains almost all the NT and over half of the OT

# When were the gospels written?

1. None of the gospels mention the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70 A.D. This is significant because Jesus had prophesied its destruction when He said, "As for these things which you are looking at, the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be torn down," (Luke 21:5, see also Matt. 24:1; Mark 13:1). If they were written after the 70AD destruction don't you think they would have included the event?
2. Matthew: The various dates most widely held as possible writing dates of the Gospel are between A.D. 40 - 140. But Ignatius died around 115 A.D. and he quoted Matthew. Therefore Matthew had to be written before he died. Nevertheless, it is generally believed that Matthew was written before A.D. 70 and as early as A.D. 50.
3. Mark: Mark (the disciple of Peter received his information from Peter) is said to be the earliest gospel with an authorship of between A.D. 55 to A.D. 70.
4. Luke: Luke was written before the book of Acts and Acts does not mention "Nero's persecution of the Christians in A.D. 64 or the deaths of James (A.D. 62), Paul (A.D. 64), and Peter (A.D. 65)."8 Therefore, we can conclude that Luke was written before A.D. 62.
5. John: The John Rylands papyrus fragment 52 of John's gospel dated in the year 125-135 contains portions of John 18, verses 31-33,37-38. This fragment was found in Egypt. It is the last of the gospels and appears to have been written in the 80's to 90's.
1. An important note is the lack of mention of the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70 A.D. But this is understandable since John was not focusing on historical events and was most probably written 20 or so years after the destruction of the Temple. John focused on the theological aspect of the person of Christ and listed His miracles and words that affirmed Christ's deity.
6. Book of Acts
1. Similarly, the book of Acts which was written after the gospel of Luke by Luke himself. Acts is a history of the Christian church right after Jesus' ascension. Acts also fails to mention the incredibly significant events of 70 A.D. which would have been extremely relevant and prophetically important yet it is not mentioned in Acts. Why? Because it was written pre-70 AD.
2. Acts does not include the accounts of "Nero's persecution of the Christians in A.D. 64 or the deaths of James (A.D. 62), Paul (A.D. 64), and Peter (A.D. 65),"1 and we have further evidence that it was written very early and not long after Jesus' ascension into heaven.
3. "At the earliest, Acts cannot have been written prior to the latest firm chronological marker recorded in the book—Festus’s appointment as procurator (Acts 24:27), which, on the basis of independent sources, appears to have occurred between A.D. 55 and 59."3
4. "It is increasingly admitted that the Logia [Q] was very early, before 50 A.D., and Mark likewise if Luke wrote the Acts while Paul was still alive. Luke's Gospel comes before the Acts (Acts 1:1). The date of Acts is still in dispute, but the early date (about A.D. 63) is gaining support constantly."4
5. If what is said of Acts is true, this would mean that Luke was written at least before A.D. 63 and possibly before 55 - 59 since Acts is the second in the series of writings by Luke. This means that the gospel of Luke was written within 30 years of Jesus' death.

# Scientific Accuracies in the Bible

1. The spherical shape of the earth (Isaiah 40:22).
2. The earth is suspended in nothing (Job. 26:7).
3. The stars are innumerable (Gen. 15:5).
4. The existence of valleys in the seas (2 Sam. 22:16).
5. The existence of springs and fountains in the sea (Gen. 7:11; 8:2; Prov. 8:28).
6. The existence of water paths (ocean currents) in the seas (Psalm 8:8).
7. The water cycle (Job. 26:8; 36:27-28; 37:16; 38:25-27; Ps. 135:7; Ecc. 1:6-7).
8. The fact that all living things reproduce after their own kind (Gen. 1:21; 6:19).
9. The nature of health, sanitation, and sickness (Gen. 17:9-14; Lev. 12-14).
10. The concept of entropy, that energy is running down (Psalm 102:26).

The Bible was written by kings, prophets, a doctor, a tax collector, fishermen, a well educated man in the Egyptian court, and a well educated Jewish pharisee.

It is inerrant in history, doctrine and ethics and has never been proven otherwise. Heed it and find life, ignore it and face the consequences.

Answer 10

If you seen how hard those goat herders worked I think you would have had more respect for them...

Answer 11

You will find out when the Judgement Day has arrived. I pray that you will know Jesus by then. You just gotta' have faith,my friend!