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Originally Posted by adysav
Then it essentially becomes just a story with a message, like thousands of books over time. Why choose christianity?
If the whole thing has just gone a bit over the top with the poetic licence and Jesus was just someone with a strong love of his fellow man and a desire to do good, then where is the need for a god?
(on a side note, can you imagine creating the 25000+ lines of the Iliad and the Odyssey without being able to write them down?)
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to the modern mind, rote memorization seems very alien. but a great deal of the cultures on this planet have spent pretty substantial amounts of time learning how to memorize and preserve texts. some brahmins in india still learn the vedas syllable by syllable, and then mix them up, learn it all again, just as a safeguard against error. i'm not claiming the recieved text is exactly how it was first said...but you do need to take in to account the ability of oral tradition to accurately preserve material.
and no...there is a HUGE gulf between a literal interpretation and "its a good story." if it was just a story...i don't think i'd give it more than second thought. it's a
total non-sequiter to think that if it's not literal it is simply fiction.