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You and I will not convince each other that we are right. I go by my personal experience with God. I believe Him and His Word ALWAYS- even if I don't always understand it. He is a WHOLE lot more trustworthy than man!!
Agreed, that's why I trust the Spirit that was promised and not the book which was not.
You may well be overwhelmed by inspiration, but you can only write in the light that you have received, if Jesus Christ having and being the great Light had written the scriptures, i am sure they would read differently. In saying that i personally believe there is no greater book in the world than the bible. For the longest time i thought the scriptures were about Jesus, today i see that they are about me, where i came from, what happened to me,what i lost, how i rediscover myself and where i will return to, this all being made possible by the message of Jesus Christ.
2. First-century Jews were actually very well educated. However, because the culture was so oriented toward oral transmission, it's probably true that they didn't write everything down.
3. HOWEVER, because they were so oriented toward oral transmission, they're famous for their ability to pass down stories with perfect accuracy. And although there is some debate about the timing of the gospels' writing, virtually no scholar believes they were written "centuries after" he left the scene. But "decades" is certainly fair.
So let's say you're 60 years old, and you were a disciple of Jesus 40 years prior. You've decided it's finally time to write down all the stories you've been telling your kids and grandkids. (I'll even allow for the possibility that you're illiterate - so you can dictate them to a scribe.) How would tell the stories so that people 2000 years later believe them?
I'd like you to actually back that one up because I have never seen any proof of that one.
I'd like you to actually back that one up because I have never seen any proof of that one.
Studies have indicated that literacy was restricted to 3% to 5% of the population and that number was of course concentrated in the major centres of population. In rural Galilee it probably did not reach that level. https://books.google.es/books?id=zlr...alilee&f=false
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