Let's compare Jesus and Muhammed (and debate homosexuality) (and Tombstone).

[MG1968]

If so then why do the mullahs condone the rape
of political prisoners?

why did the Catholic Church cover up, for decades, the sexual abuse of young boys by priests?

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

Absolutely ridiculous claim. One can crank out the whole thing in a day if they are just copying a well-preserved oral account.

Ridiculous claim?? What's ridiculous is people expecting the people who wrote the Gospels to be able to crank out these books, in possibly 2-3 languages, in a certain amount of time, especially when your not even taking into effect how much they were moving around at the time. You ever wrote with a pen, that had to be dipped in ink, while trying to escape death?? I would say not.

 

[IPorange]

Or can you?

well, I can. I do. That's 50 % of being a scientist, is constantly reading the literature. I have no doubt you can too, if you really tried. I'm not saying it would change your mind, but you can see how various scientific claims developed over time, and how they are changing now.

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

:lolabove:

What are you laughing about?? You think they just went to the local Staples and picked up some Bics??

 

[IPorange]

Ridiculous claim?? What's ridiculous is people expecting the people who wrote the Gospels to be able to crank out these books, in possibly 2-3 languages, in a certain amount of time, especially when your not even taking into effect how much they were moving around at the time. You ever wrote with a pen, that had to be dipped in ink, while trying to escape death?? I would say not.

You're right, they just didn't have time to record the Greatest Story Ever Told for decades, but had plenty of time to perfectly recite it to one another for generations. makes sense.

 

[therealUT]

Ridiculous claim?? What's ridiculous is people expecting the people who wrote the Gospels to be able to crank out these books, in possibly 2-3 languages, in a certain amount of time, especially when your not even taking into effect how much they were moving around at the time. You ever wrote with a pen, that had to be dipped in ink, while trying to escape death?? I would say not.

Ridiculous post is getting more ridiculous.

 

[droski]

Ridiculous claim?? What's ridiculous is people expecting the people who wrote the Gospels to be able to crank out these books, in possibly 2-3 languages, in a certain amount of time, especially when your not even taking into effect how much they were moving around at the time. You ever wrote with a pen, that had to be dipped in ink, while trying to escape death?? I would say not.

somehow medival book copiers managed around a 50 pages a day.

 

[IPorange]

What are you laughing about?? You think they just went to the local Staples and picked up some Bics??

You think they had pens.

 

[golfballs]

can we add Joseph Smith to the thread title?

 

[MG1968]

Considering ink wasn't part of the pen back then, yes it cost them money, and sometimes you didn't have direct access to buy it right when you needed it in those times.

you do realize that these guys probably made their own ink, paper, etc? and charcoal was pretty easy to come by as well.

 

[IPorange]

Here is a collection of legends from native American
tribes that were gathered over a 45 year period:

He walked the Americas

Anyone ever talked to you about the Book of Mormon? Seems you might enjoy it.

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

You think they had pens.

Ok, quill is the more appropriate term, but I figured since you were a master of comprehension, you would figure that out. Guess not.

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

Ridiculous post is getting more ridiculous.

Yet you offer nothing more than criticism of my post.

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

somehow medival book copiers managed around a 50 pages a day.

What language was that in, and you think they knew how to write in Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic??

 

[IPorange]

Ink could be made from a type of nut and a common ferrous compound, btw, in the Roman world. It wasn't a luxury item by any means.

 

[droski]

What language was that in, and you think they knew how to write in Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic??

most of them couldn't actually speak the languages they were copying. it's actually was as simple as saying "write A, now write B, etc." surely someone was literate though.

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

You're right, they just didn't have time to record the Greatest Story Ever Told for decades, but had plenty of time to perfectly recite it to one another for generations. makes sense.

Assuming post is assuming.

 

[IPorange]

What language was that in, and you think they knew how to write in Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic??

Do you think Hebrews, Greeks, and Arabs could not write in Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic?

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

Ink could be made from a type of nut and a common ferrous compound, btw, in the Roman world. It wasn't a luxury item by any means.

You think they were exactly near Rome??

 

[IPorange]

Assuming post is assuming.

What am I assuming?

 

[VOLatile]

What language was that in, and you think they knew how to write in Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic??

I'd venture to guess that most were multilingual and copied scripts from one language to another.
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[g8terh8ter_eric]

Do you think Hebrews, Greeks, and Arabs could not write in Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic?

You ever wrote a book in either 3 languages, yet alone did it 2-3 times in different languages??

 

[IPorange]

You think they were exactly near Rome??

I said the Roman world. The area of Israel had known ink even longer had had access to even more formulas. And was part of the Roman World. Words have meaning.

 

[g8terh8ter_eric]

What am I assuming?

That they are somehow supposed to do this in any particular amount of time. They did it as quick as they could, given the conditions some of them faced.

 

[IPorange]

You ever wrote a book in either 3 languages, yet alone did it 2-3 times in different languages??

No. I'm English. I write in English, Spanish, and French. Hebrews write in Hebrew and Armaic. Hebrews in Greece write in Hebrew, Armaic, and Greek.

What does language have to do with anything, by the way? Why wouldn't they write it down in pictographs if that is what they knew? And don't claim they were illiterate, they weren't.