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> Another example is in Acts It's almost as if the Bible has different authors with different audiences and different aims in their writing, all of whom had no
by mullingitover 1y ago
> Another example is in Acts
It's almost as if the Bible has different authors with different audiences and different aims in their writing, all of whom had no idea or plan for their writing to be codified into a single text by third parties who in turn had their own audience and goals.
- Amezarak 1y agoThe rich man sorrowfully turning away from Jesus after he tells him that to be perfect, he should give up all his wealth, and then the story of the camel through the eye of the needle immediately following it as a reflection on the man's actions, is repeated almost word-for-word in Luke 18. Luke and Acts internally claim to be written by the same author, and modern scholarship agrees they were written by the same author. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%E2%80%93Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%E2%80%93Acts > The view that they were written by the same person is virtually unanimous among scholars. So no, "well, it's because the Bible was written by different people" doesn't get you out of this one.