Blaine Coleman
1 min readDec 3, 2022

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True, nut try getting someone trained in theology but not much else to believe that. Many teach that Jesus' Apostles wrote the "gospels" that have their names on them, despite the fact the Apostles were illiterate, or at the very least not literate enough to have written down those stories themselves. They were common people, fishermen, etc. How could a fisherman be educated enough to write the book of Peter? He couldn't have been.

It was a common literary technique in the time Jesus lived, to attribute a writing the author considered important to a "known" name to get it any attention in the ancient world. An early use of "pen names" but not the first. The OT's Prophet Isaiah was dictated to scribes by at least two or three different men and there are multiple other "books" chosen to be in the OT and NT that also had multiple authors or were attributed decades or centuries after the oral stories were first passed down.

And why are there two distinct versions of the creation story in Genisis if it's the literal "Word" of God? To believe the stories gathered into what Westerners refer to as the "Bible" are literal is to insult It (saying "It" to refer to God rather than Him or Her is the accurate way of referring to God, rather than using pronouns created by man). Does God make mistakes?

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Blaine Coleman
Blaine Coleman

Written by Blaine Coleman

Rel. Studies, Creative Writing… Social liberal/fiscal conservative, occasional writer- profile pic- 6-yr-old coal minor 1910-flow with the Tao, all will be well

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