I am a big fan of conspiracy theories. They provide much entertainment.
There’s a theory out there that the Bible was written +- 60 years after the death of Christ by a person in Rome, as a mechanism to control and manipulate the masses.
Of course, the Old Testament was written while the Israelites were in exile.
“When Was The Bible Written? New Study Suggests Earlier Than We Thought”
Different texts at different times. Duh.
It is my understanding that the Torah was passed on verbally from generation to generation by the Levites since OT times, until it was finally compiled into a single written work much more recently. The question is when that written work was compiled.
So they found routine operational communications in a fort written by at least 6 people and they extrapolate that to claim that the bible was written before Christ?
And they make fun of people who see the face of Jesus in a piece of burnt toast.
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The ‘higher critics’ have done considerable damage to the faith of many, I have no doubt.
More recently, such authors as Simon Schama have revised the Biblical revisions.
As far as I am concerned, knowledge is a wonderful thing, but many of the Academics or ‘Experts’ have their heads up their asses.
Their agenda is more important than simple truth.
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