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.

Axeroberts · 56-60, M

Weren't many of them scribes. Because not many people knew how to read and write back then

AkioTsukino · M

@Axeroberts Scribes, like Ezra, for example, were the equivalent to the modern day lawyer. Most people read back then. They were, in fact, more often than not, bilingual. Adam, for example, was told to write in the histories. People were told to read the Bible daily, to teach it to their children. I think much of what people think of ancient history is based egregiously on the "Dark Ages" as if everything prior to that was more primitive. It's sort of a Hollyweird version of history. The point of the dark ages were the intelligentsia complaining about culture. Literature, to be exact, in fact. It was the sentiment of one man, but people even at that time, after a sort of collapse of the preexisting society, were much more literate than they are given credit for.