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<blockquote data-quote="mikeyboc" data-source="post: 2121159" data-attributes="member: 563895"><p>The Old Testament was passed down for hundreds, if not thousands of years, by word of mouth before it was put down on a written medium.&nbsp; Is it not too far out there to think that when being told from gereration to generation, there was not some things being changed (added or withheld).&nbsp; A perfect example is that old children&#039;s game &quot;Telephone&quot;.&nbsp; One kid starts it, and then it goes around the room, and the last kid has totally different words then when it started.&nbsp; If a simple phrase can not be passed around a room, how can the facts of an entire religion before the arrival of Christ be accurately documented from many generations before it was transcribed.&nbsp; Now, the New Testament, for the most part was written many years after Christ had died (debates take it up to 300 years after the fact) by people who did not have first hand experience with Jesus.&nbsp; The gospels were not actually written by the Apostles as the names would lead you to believe.&nbsp; So how accurate are writings that have no direct tie to the subject.&nbsp; Again, the events were passed on by mouth until written down.&nbsp; This is jsut a rough idea, as there is not the time or space to go into more detail.&nbsp; IMO, the ideas and teachings that the Bible contains are what needs to be take to heart, not the literal interpretation of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="mikeyboc, post: 2121159, member: 563895"] The Old Testament was passed down for hundreds, if not thousands of years, by word of mouth before it was put down on a written medium. Is it not too far out there to think that when being told from gereration to generation, there was not some things being changed (added or withheld). A perfect example is that old children's game "Telephone". One kid starts it, and then it goes around the room, and the last kid has totally different words then when it started. If a simple phrase can not be passed around a room, how can the facts of an entire religion before the arrival of Christ be accurately documented from many generations before it was transcribed. Now, the New Testament, for the most part was written many years after Christ had died (debates take it up to 300 years after the fact) by people who did not have first hand experience with Jesus. The gospels were not actually written by the Apostles as the names would lead you to believe. So how accurate are writings that have no direct tie to the subject. Again, the events were passed on by mouth until written down. This is jsut a rough idea, as there is not the time or space to go into more detail. IMO, the ideas and teachings that the Bible contains are what needs to be take to heart, not the literal interpretation of it. [/QUOTE]

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