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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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Iwillwait · M
The two "Old Testament and New are 300 years apart and many of the Old Testament's prohecies came to fruition as for told, and more and more are unfolding.

The scribe or author who is chronicling their lives or the lives of other are divinely guided.
@Iwillwait Exactly! God did not entrust his word to just anyone. The inspiration of the Bible means more than mere spiritual illumination and exultation, which comes to many people. The word "inspire" comes from a Latin word which means [i]to breathe on, or breathe in[/i]. The Bible is inspired in the sense that it was written by men who were "inbreathed" by the Holy Spirit.

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable (to man) for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished (equipped) unto all good works." II Timothy 3:16-17. That's 2nd Timothy, chapter three, verses 16-17:

"[b][c=BF0000]For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but to [u]holy men of God[/u] spoke as they were [u]moved by the Holy Ghost[/u]". II Peter 1:21. [/c][/b]

The Bible is the eternal, unchangeable, and infallible (incapable of making mistakes or being wrong) Word of God.
Iwillwait · M
@LadyGrace Thank you. 🤗