🧵 As a former student of Theology and Religious studies, I have a simple explication for which many Americans will hate me: THE bible doesn't exist. We only have different corpuses of text collections and translations.
Why?
(People who believe that God personally dictated even one of these collections of texts, please stop reading!)
I try to keep it simple: Just imagine: In earlier times, people passed on traditions orally. There is a tribe that is enthusiastic about the great
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