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Only idiots think idiots wrote the Bible

Whenever someone says something like the Bible was written by Bronze age goat herders or the Bible is a product of ignorant superstitious people, or the writers of the Bible were on mushrooms . . . that's stupidity. Here's why.

1. The Bronze age is thought to have lasted about 2,000 years, from 3300 to 1200 BCE, and much of what they did, including the Bible, is still being used today. For example, the wheel, irrigation, the dedicated field for planting, the axe, the sword, the potter's wheel and writing.

2. They were as intelligent as modern man. You're not intelligent because you can Google something on your smart phone. They lived in the natural world that you read about in books. Build us a pyramid or even tell us how they built the pyramids with your smart phone and you may have the merit to decide they were ignorant about their world. Speculation on how that world was created doesn't indicate modern man has the superior intelligence.

3. Technology only makes us stupid. Go back to the telegraph, television, internet, cell phones. Telegraph was thought to bring peace through improved communication, it didn't. It allowed the spread of propaganda by those who controlled it. The television didn't educate it dumbed down. The internet provided information which was used for more propaganda. Cell phones didn't improve communication they promoted isolation. None of this reflects poorly on technology itself but rather how it is always used.

4. Moses and Joshua were judges, military commanders, historians and writers. Successive writers included kings, lawyers, fishermen, and a medical doctor and prophets, among others.
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pride49 · 31-35, M
Imo most of them would have common sense which a lot of 'smart' people these days lack.
@pride49 To me, common sense seems a contradiction of terms. Kind of what you said. Sense isn't very common these days. I think it can also be specific and I think I was sort of talking about that as well. If you investigate a specific school of thought knowledge in that specific will be common. That has all sorts of aspects to think about. The Bible writers lived in the world, how much did they think about how that world was created. The details as we may know or science may investigate them in our time? We don't really know. The assumption is typically that they were a great deal more unintelligent than they were. So, we're the ones in the dark on that subject.