Also, it should be common knowledge that what we call the Bible is a collection of texts that were selected by committee.
A committee that had their own political agenda, their own biases and hidden reasons for selecting the specific works.
So even before translating the texts into modern languages you have the issue of selection bias, or just plain laziness.
It is actually quite funny to think about it in the context on a modern office meeting, think about it, how many meetings have you sat through where you don’t care about the topic?
You sit there, just daydreaming and is suddenly asked about your opinion on the matter at hand, you get embarrassed and blurt something out just to pretend to have been paying attention…
Also, it should be common knowledge that what we call the Bible is a collection of texts that were selected by committee.
A committee that had their own political agenda, their own biases and hidden reasons for selecting the specific works.
So even before translating the texts into modern languages you have the issue of selection bias, or just plain laziness.
It is actually quite funny to think about it in the context on a modern office meeting, think about it, how many meetings have you sat through where you don’t care about the topic?
You sit there, just daydreaming and is suddenly asked about your opinion on the matter at hand, you get embarrassed and blurt something out just to pretend to have been paying attention…
I’m sure it absolutely went down like that. With a few people always arguing with any idea that came from someone they didn’t like.
I wonder how often it turned into a brawl as H.R wasn’t invented yet.