Who wrote the Bible?

[Tlaceceyaya]

You are all aware of the Bible's Laws of not planting during every seventh year.

Well if an entire agrarian nation doesn't plant in one year... will most of them not die? How can they resolve this?

Crop rotation maybe... store up some food maybe... no the Bible says not to do that.

Say what you want about Biblical Authors but they said this Leviticus 25:20

You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?” I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.

Now what bronze age agrarian people would accept this upon themselves?

Food for thought.

AGAIN, I will address this.
You're using this stupid farming thing as evidence for the bible being true. However, there is absolutely no evidence of this ever happening except... in the bible. So if you accept the bible as a factual, accurate source, only then will this story be evidence for you.
Furthermore, you're using the fact that they endure hardships for their beliefs as evidence that their beliefs are true. So why not accept the hardships of people of countless other religions as evidence for their religions?

[Menassa]

You are all aware of the Bible's Laws of not planting during every seventh year.

Well if an entire agrarian nation doesn't plant in one year... will most of them not die? How can they resolve this?

Crop rotation maybe... store up some food maybe... no the Bible says not to do that.

Say what you want about Biblical Authors but they said this Leviticus 25:20

You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?” I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.

Now what bronze age agrarian people would accept this upon themselves?

Food for thought.

AGAIN, I will address this.
You're using this stupid farming thing as evidence for the bible being true. However, there is absolutely no evidence of this ever happening except... in the bible. So if you accept the bible as a factual, accurate source, only then will this story be evidence for you.
Furthermore, you're using the fact that they endure hardships for their beliefs as evidence that their beliefs are true. So why not accept the hardships of people of countless other religions as evidence for their religions?

Actually, not once in my post did I ever claim that the Bible was true, not once in my post did I ever say that the Bible was accurate for anything and not once did I advocate the truth of my religion over other religions.

Stop. Reread my post carefully. Respond accordingly without your own inhibitions, respond to what I'm saying and not what you think I am saying.

[Menassa]

You are all aware of the Bible's Laws of not planting during every seventh year.

Well if an entire agrarian nation doesn't plant in one year... will most of them not die? How can they resolve this?

Crop rotation maybe... store up some food maybe... no the Bible says not to do that.

Say what you want about Biblical Authors but they said this Leviticus 25:20

You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?” I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.

Now what bronze age agrarian people would accept this upon themselves?

Food for thought.

What's your point?

People have many beliefs about Biblical Authorship, but Leviticus 25:20-22 suggests a Godly author at least to me, because who has this power over the land?

Does it prove it true? I never said that... I only say it suggests.

[Tlaceceyaya]

AGAIN, I will address this.
You're using this stupid farming thing as evidence for the bible being true. However, there is absolutely no evidence of this ever happening except... in the bible. So if you accept the bible as a factual, accurate source, only then will this story be evidence for you.
Furthermore, you're using the fact that they endure hardships for their beliefs as evidence that their beliefs are true. So why not accept the hardships of people of countless other religions as evidence for their religions?

Actually, not once in my post did I ever claim that the Bible was true, not once in my post did I ever say that the Bible was accurate for anything and not once did I advocate the truth of my religion over other religions.

Stop. Reread my post carefully. Respond accordingly without your own inhibitions, respond to what I'm saying and not what you think I am saying.

You said:

Now what bronze age agrarian people would accept this upon themselves?

Food for thought.

Guess what that says? That says that you're singling out the jews for being devoted, implying that there is some reason, perhaps divine.

[Menassa]

Actually, not once in my post did I ever claim that the Bible was true, not once in my post did I ever say that the Bible was accurate for anything and not once did I advocate the truth of my religion over other religions.

Stop. Reread my post carefully. Respond accordingly without your own inhibitions, respond to what I'm saying and not what you think I am saying.

You said:

Now what bronze age agrarian people would accept this upon themselves?

Food for thought.

Guess what that says? That says that you're singling out the jews for being devoted, implying that there is some reason, perhaps divine.

No, I'm asking a question about the authorship of the Bible, challenging other peoples beliefs about Biblical Authorship.

Again, if you don't understand what I mean ask me, I'll be sure to answer don't make assumptions off of our other conversations or anything I've said in the past.

[Nationalist State of Knox]

What's your point?

People have many beliefs about Biblical Authorship, but Leviticus 25:20-22 suggests a Godly author at least to me, because who has this power over the land?

Does it prove it true? I never said that... I only say it suggests.

But that only says Yahweh has power over the land, it doesn't provide any evidence that such a thing did happen.

[Neo Rome Republic]

If, what you say is true. Then doesn't that mean, the bible story borrowing from other cultures proves it's wrong? I still can't understand the mental ''gymnastics'' people do, to keep believing it. I suppose comforting beliefs really are hard to let go.
I guess this sorta, proves my point that, if you show some Christians evidence, they'll still believe.

[Menassa]

People have many beliefs about Biblical Authorship, but Leviticus 25:20-22 suggests a Godly author at least to me, because who has this power over the land?

Does it prove it true? I never said that... I only say it suggests.

But that only says Yahweh has power over the land, it doesn't provide any evidence that such a thing did happen.

Correct, but don't you think Biblical Authors, humans, would have given more reasonable advice?

Do you believe no one kept Biblical Law until basically the 1st century?

[Dalmacie]

It was written by numerous people, each writing their account to achieve their own political aim, and was eventually compiled into a single text by numerous reactors.

Perfect answer.

The Bible is a book. Written by men. Including all their imperfections.

It was not written by Jesus, or God. It was written by men years after Jesus.

[Neo Rome Republic]

It was written by numerous people, each writing their account to achieve their own political aim, and was eventually compiled into a single text by numerous reactors.

Perfect answer.

The Bible is a book. Written by men. Including all their imperfections.

It was not written by Jesus, or God. It was written by men years after Jesus.

And yet sooooo manyyyy, still believe it was.

[Dalmacie]

It was written by numerous people, each writing their account to achieve their own political aim, and was eventually compiled into a single text by numerous reactors.

Perfect answer.

The Bible is a book. Written by men. Including all their imperfections.

It was not written by Jesus, or God. It was written by men years after Jesus.

And yet sooooo manyyyy, still believe it was.

Yes, religious misinformation is both unfortunate and dangerous.

I find it to be extremely ridiculous that such normal, honest, mostly intelligent people could honestly believe that some book just fell from the sky, and that it was directly written by God and his angels.

Ridiculous.

That also applies to those who believe the Koran is so as well; I am unsure of how Jews view their holy book, but if they believe so too, then that applies to them as well.

[Nationalist State of Knox]

But that only says Yahweh has power over the land, it doesn't provide any evidence that such a thing did happen.

Correct, but don't you think Biblical Authors, humans, would have given more reasonable advice?

Do you believe no one kept Biblical Law until basically the 1st century?

Why would they give advice that didn't support the existence of their God?

[Menassa]

Correct, but don't you think Biblical Authors, humans, would have given more reasonable advice?

Do you believe no one kept Biblical Law until basically the 1st century?

Why would they give advice that didn't support the existence of their God?

I wouldn't expect them not to, but who would accept this Law?

Remember not advice, but Law.

[The Archregimancy]

the Bible, with authorship traditionally attributed to a single individual per book(s) (such as Moses for the Pentateuch), is instead the combination of different works by different authors, carefully edited together.

I suppose I have to applaud the effort involved in writing that OP, but if the whole point was to reach the above conclusion - which I thought was common knowledge - I could likely have saved you the trouble with just two or three reputable academic citations.

[Neo Rome Republic]

And yet sooooo manyyyy, still believe it was.

Yes, religious misinformation is both unfortunate and dangerous.

I find it to be extremely ridiculous that such normal, honest, mostly intelligent people could honestly believe that some book just fell from the sky, and that it was directly written by God and his angels.

Ridiculous.

That also applies to those who believe the Koran is so as well; I am unsure of how Jews view their holy book, but if they believe so too, then that applies to them as well.

One thing you have to remember, many of the followers were raised in a Christian family taught from BIRTH, to believe it as fact. And remember, the most religious countries are poor and uneducated. The only exception to this rule is the USA, where I live . But the good news is religion, is currently on the decline.

[Daistallia 2104]

Seriously - even among Xians, how is this even a question anymore?

[Neo Rome Republic]

Seriously - even among Xians, how is this even a question anymore?

Bat shit crazy never makes any sense. I suppose people, like the comfort their religion brings them and, that comfort seems VERY hard to let go of, for some reason.

[The Archregimancy]

I find it to be extremely ridiculous that such normal, honest, mostly intelligent people could honestly believe that some book just fell from the sky, and that it was directly written by God and his angels.

If they do, clearly they're not familiar with Christian theology, since the vast majority of Christians hold no such belief, and have demonstrably not done so since the beginning of detailed Christian theological writing in the 3rd century.

Your sentence may possibly describe literalist Evangelical Protestants, but then 80% of Christians aren't literalist Evangelical Protestants; so why characterise the beliefs of a 4/5ths majority by those of a 1/5th minority?

[The Archregimancy]

Seriously - even among Xians, how is this even a question anymore?

It isn't; not for a large majority of Christians, anyway.

But it's no doubt fun to take the beliefs of a minority of a particular group, and then pretend that minority represents the majority, or even the totality.

[Dalmacie]

I find it to be extremely ridiculous that such normal, honest, mostly intelligent people could honestly believe that some book just fell from the sky, and that it was directly written by God and his angels.

If they do, clearly they're not familiar with Christian theology, since the vast majority of Christians hold no such belief, and have demonstrably not done so since the beginning of detailed Christian theological writing in the 3rd century.

Your sentence may possibly describe literalist Evangelical Protestants, but then 80% of Christians aren't literalist Evangelical Protestants; so why characterise the beliefs of a 4/5ths majority by those of a 1/5th minority?

Well, whenever I refer to such broad generalizations, I am thinking of the Evangelical, mostly Baptist, Southern-American Christians; a disturbing amount of which do, or at least they act like they do, believe that the Bible fell from the sky and is written by Jesus and God.

[Neo Rome Republic]

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[Derman Iles]

It was written by numerous people, each writing their account to achieve their own political aim, and was eventually compiled into a single text by numerous reactors.

Perfect answer.

The Bible is a book. Written by men. Including all their imperfections.

It was not written by Jesus, or God. It was written by men years after Jesus.

Heard of the dead sea scrolls? Thread/

[Serrland]

It was written by numerous people, each writing their account to achieve their own political aim, and was eventually compiled into a single text by numerous reactors.

Perfect answer.

The Bible is a book. Written by men. Including all their imperfections.

It was not written by Jesus, or God. It was written by men years after Jesus.

Heard of the dead sea scrolls? Thread/

What about the dead sea scrolls?

[Dalmacie]

It was written by numerous people, each writing their account to achieve their own political aim, and was eventually compiled into a single text by numerous reactors.

Perfect answer.

The Bible is a book. Written by men. Including all their imperfections.

It was not written by Jesus, or God. It was written by men years after Jesus.

Heard of the dead sea scrolls? Thread/

Your point?

They, like the Bible, were written by people.

So...

[The Archregimancy]

If they do, clearly they're not familiar with Christian theology, since the vast majority of Christians hold no such belief, and have demonstrably not done so since the beginning of detailed Christian theological writing in the 3rd century.

Your sentence may possibly describe literalist Evangelical Protestants, but then 80% of Christians aren't literalist Evangelical Protestants; so why characterise the beliefs of a 4/5ths majority by those of a 1/5th minority?

Well, whenever I refer to such broad generalizations, I am thinking of the Evangelical, mostly Baptist, Southern-American Christians; a disturbing amount of which do, or at least they act like they do, believe that the Bible fell from the sky and is written by Jesus and God.

Perhaps, but then they're no more than 20% of all Christians, and likely a much smaller percentage than that. So it's a fairly poor broad generalisation if there's any implication that said view is shared more broadly within Christianity.

True, Evangelical Protestant Americans are a particularly loud and shouty group of Christians, but they're wholly unrepresentative of the totality thereof, so it's a regrettable debating tactic to pretend that they are.

Anyway, I've said it before, and I'll say it again... Evangelical American Protestants are actively damaging to Christianity.

It isn't; not for a large majority of Christians, anyway.

But it's no doubt fun to take the beliefs of a minority of a particular group, and then pretend that minority represents the majority, or even the totality.

And yet believing in a man who can bring back the dead, walk on water, turn water into wine, born of a women ''knocked up'' by a ghost somehow, isn't taking the Bible literally? That seems like a pretty LITERAL interpretation . Which most, if not all Christians, adhere to.

I'm sorry, but I usually only take the trouble to debate people who actually understand the point of the posts to which they're replying.