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• BenVimes@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is it that you think I was implying with my post?

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the post you replied to

    Jesus wouldn’t quote the Bible. It was written hundreds of years after his death.

    The implication was that it was not correct because of a reply that starts with:

    Let’s be correct here:

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    • BenVimes@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The original post says that “the Bible” was written “hundreds of years after [Jesus’s] death.” I consider this to be an incorrect statement. When someone says “the Bible,” I wouldn’t think of only the most recently composed passages, but as a whole, from Genesis to Revelation.

      This doesn’t mean that those recent passages weren’t written hundreds of years after Jesus died, only that I wouldn’t identify that point in history as “when the Bible was written.”

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      • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Except english language discussions on writing would generally be fine with how the post you replied to is written.

        If an author writes a book for several decades then publishes it we would generally say “it was written” up to the publishing date even if sections of the book had not changed significantly for decades before publishing it. So I think its completely correct english to say “The Bible was written hundreds of years after christ lived” even if parts of it were written when he lived.

        I agree that its misleading but I disagree that it’s incorrect because its correct linguistically and its correct in the broader point that essentially “Christ would likely not quote documents written after his existence” with the caveat being that he may quote documents that eventually found their way into the old testament unchanged.

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