who is smart enough in the 1st century to write such a story without influence from God?
2007-01-20 16:54:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are many 1st century writers with great influence, you should read some of their writings.
Petronius, Seneca, Phaedrus, Persius, Quintilian, Lucan, Statius, Tacitus, Martial, Juvenal, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Aulus Gellius, and Apuleius are just some of the names.
2007-01-20 17:04:36 · answer #1 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Smart enough? What bible are you reading. The stories in the bible are anything but smart. The are full of errors, contradictions, and complete falsehoods. I find nothing 'smart' about the men who wrote such babble.
2007-01-20 17:20:06 · answer #2 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in accordance to the Trinity doctrine, Jesus is God, yet a separate guy or woman from the father. The doctrine teaches that there are 3 separate persons -- the father, The Son and The Holy Spirit -- who all incorporate one God. If this coaching is actual, there should not be any scripture interior the Bible that portrays Jesus as an entity separate and distinctive from God -- separate and distinctive from the father, definite; yet no longer separate and distinctive from God. by using way of assessment, word that there is not any scripture interior the Bible that portrays the father as a separate and distinctive entity from God. it may be completely ridiculous, difficult, pointless and contradictory for the Bible to back and back communicate over with Jesus as an entity separate and distinctive from God, if Jesus is God. however the scriptures you quoted do in basic terms that. repeatedly they communicate of Jesus being on the ultimate hand of, no longer the father, yet God, for this reason contradicting the Trinity doctrine. using fact the Bible is God's be attentive to certainty, the incontrovertible fact that it so often contradicts the Trinity doctrine can recommend purely one factor -- the Trinity doctrine is fake. (John 17:17) i've got faith -- using fact i've got faith maximum individuals have a minimum of a modicum of intelligence -- that deep down, many Trinitarians understand that the doctrine is fake. yet satisfaction and/or a opt to slot in with the 'Christian' crowd compels them to play alongside, pretending or convincing themselves that they have got faith it. Many are for this reason in a state of denial approximately this falsehood. in basic terms look at how they answer the question. Many won't even handle the particular situation you have raised, head on -- using fact they could't. Their purely decision is to forget approximately approximately it and quote different so observed as 'info texts'. this isn't using fact they lack intelligence. it relatively is using fact there is not any credible and passable argument to disprove what the Bible -- God's authoritative be attentive to certainty -- very blatantly shows.
2016-10-31 21:31:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was influenced by the government as a way for them to have the people in fear of a God so that the people would obey the laws.
I do not see how someone can base their beliefs on a document full of stories that were loosely passed on by word of mouth for hundreds of years. The Bible reflects the opinions of the people of that time. They wanted answers to lifes questions.
2007-01-20 17:00:50 · answer #4 · answered by Whiz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is a very slow process. People in the times of the bible were just as intelligent as we are today they just had different technology. Also a Holy Man or scribe would spend his life in service, not just Sunday.
But maybe the Bible was inspired by God, like many other religions claim of thier books.
2007-01-20 17:08:04 · answer #5 · answered by chuck 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there were many people at the time who were educated enough to write such things down. plus somethings may have been stretched in the bible. many of those stories were finally written down hundreds of years after the time it happend. time deteriorates facts. its happends with oral stories all the time. its why there are so many different versions of myths floating around there.
2007-01-20 16:59:22 · answer #6 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please explain what is so phenomenal about the story and then show evidence that there is anything in it that wasn't known in the 1st century. When I say "wasn't known in the 1st century" I mean actual knowledge contained in the Bible, not metaphysical speculation on deities and the after life.
2007-01-20 16:58:32 · answer #7 · answered by Digital Haruspex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
such a story? It is full of holes and ZERO knowledge that people of that time period did not know. I could sit down and write a better one RIGHT NOW.
2007-01-20 16:57:18 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God but as for the Bible, I just don't think those men got their stories right
2007-01-20 16:58:00 · answer #9 · answered by gitsliveon24 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If your standard of divinity is the quality of literature, look to Jack Kerouac or Ernest Hemingway, not Paul, for the Almighty.
2007-01-20 16:58:38 · answer #10 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋