For the Bible to have been inerrantly transcribed and translated, we
must assume both that every person who ever made a copy was an expert in
linguistics, and that everyone of those experts in linguists unanimously
agreed on the very same interpretation over the last 2000 years, even if
they had used any number of different methods to do so.
In fact, even the original authors of the books of the New Testament would have had to have been experts in both Aramaic, which was the only language the Apostles spoke, and in that dialect of Aramaic that was particular to the poor and the illiterate, since that was what the Apostles were. They would also have had to have been experts in Greek as well, since that is the language in which the books of the New Testament were originally written.
Worse still, those learned Greek authors would have had to capture in those stories the aching sense of injustice that is felt so acutely by only the poorest of the poor, in all of its unlettered nuances, as it echoed through the a cavern of empty stomachs.
And they most certainly did use different methods for doing all of this, of course, because the only the wealthier classes in Rome would've known how to write in Greek, and the study of linguistics only started about 200 years ago.
And like a religion, a lot of them disagree about a lot of things, even though all of them are "experts."
The rich, on the other hand, always agree unanimously about their money.
In fact, even the original authors of the books of the New Testament would have had to have been experts in both Aramaic, which was the only language the Apostles spoke, and in that dialect of Aramaic that was particular to the poor and the illiterate, since that was what the Apostles were. They would also have had to have been experts in Greek as well, since that is the language in which the books of the New Testament were originally written.
Worse still, those learned Greek authors would have had to capture in those stories the aching sense of injustice that is felt so acutely by only the poorest of the poor, in all of its unlettered nuances, as it echoed through the a cavern of empty stomachs.
And they most certainly did use different methods for doing all of this, of course, because the only the wealthier classes in Rome would've known how to write in Greek, and the study of linguistics only started about 200 years ago.
And like a religion, a lot of them disagree about a lot of things, even though all of them are "experts."
The rich, on the other hand, always agree unanimously about their money.
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