Anonymous wrote:So a bunch of bored people just wrote the entire document and convinced.people to believe it? Or what about Christianity becoming the official religion of the Romans? Did the Emperor one day say, "this sounds good" and decide to make it official?

If you are a nonbeliever, I respect you. But how do you answer this?

Hahaha! Well, the Communist Manifesto has had a huge following and was adopted by millions. It was written by Marx and Engels. The Bible has several authors too. I don't see them as very different. Both were used to gain political control. So yeah, just like the Romans decided to make Christianity official for political gain the Communist Manifesto inspired the USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea amonst others.

Anonymous wrote:OP, please let us know what you think about Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. On the edge of my seat for this.

I’d really love to hear this as well.

OP, please let us know what you think about Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. One the edge of my seat for this.

To the OP, you have a world of information available at your literal fingertips, and yet you can't do a simple search and learn more yourself?

There are also portions of the Bible that are adapted from older traditional tales, like the Book of Job.

I really don't see how this is an argument for Christianity.

Look, your faith is your business, but if you're out looking for definitive proof to do the whole "checkmate atheists" thing, you're going to either come up empty or end up making pretty absurd arguments.

You have to live with the fact that not everyone shares your beliefs. Other people believe their own faiths are the one true religion as well. Some people believe none of it.

Its neither fairy tale nor truth. People told stories for generations. The stories changed and evolved. Then, the got written down. Eventually the writings got politicized - for example when the Roman Empire split into two.

You could just Google.

The process of creating the biblical canon happened over hundreds of years.

Anonymous wrote:The Bible like all religious texts was written by people. Formalizing what they believed. It wasn't bored people, it was people who wanted more power and control over populace. There was religious belief before Christianity, followers of Jesus (who was a real person and a rabbi) wanted another way to worship and connect to each other. Same way there is a Book of Mormon and those rules.

And it was edited every so often, sometimes heavily, by whoever was in power to suit the desired politics. There are whole biblical books held by the Vatican that were removed centuries ago. Op's question is really odd, if made by an adult. There is no mystery of how the modern Bible was made.
Just like today, there were special interests, with clout or their own imagining of how life should be. There are tons of contradictions too.

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/09/canon-bible-lyle-boudreaux.html

This article goes into much more detail about where the Bible came from than I’m going to get into, but as a summary:

“ The easy answer is that the canonical books of the Christian Bible were enumerated and approved by various councils, synods, and popes of the Catholic Church, beginning with the Council of Rome in 382 A.D. ”

It didn’t take Hitler that much time to write Mien Kampf nor for Mao to write his little Red Book. They were able to convince millions of people to worship them. Heck, you don’t even need to be literate to get people worship you, look at what the Pol Pot did with the Khmer Rouge.

So the idea that someone or a small group of people started to write down historical events and beliefs, that were built on by others over hundreds of years so that they can command power over them, doesn’t seem that far fetched.

If fairy tales are fairy tales then where did Grimm’s fairy tales come from?

I guess all of us wonder whether Torah, Bible and Quran are great pieces of literature or divine revelation. If there are any unbiased and agenda free studies, please share links.

All that worked, in more modern times, for Mormons and Scientologist.

The Bible like all religious texts was written by people. Formalizing what they believed. It wasn't bored people, it was people who wanted more power and control over populace. There was religious belief before Christianity, followers of Jesus (who was a real person and a rabbi) wanted another way to worship and connect to each other. Same way there is a Book of Mormon and those rules.

So a bunch of bored people just wrote the entire document and convinced.people to believe it? Or what about Christianity becoming the official religion of the Romans? Did the Emperor one day say, "this sounds good" and decide to make it official?

If you are a nonbeliever, I respect you. But how do you answer this?