Originally Posted by
curious
Yes, most people who read the Bible don't know the history of the texts which became known as "The Bible".
Take the Old Testament, the OT was written by three people. By reading the entire OT you can figure out which sections were written by these three different authors.
The Israelites wrote a large section of the OT in order to hide their true history and to make the many criminal acts that they committed appear to be "righteous" because God told them to do these horrible deeds. Obviously that section of the OT is propaganda written after the fact to give a religious approval to the horrific behavior of these lunatics.
All the people living around the land that the Israelites stole knew the true story, so the Israelites could not deny that they committed these horrific crimes. The only way to justify these actions was to claim that "God" ordered them to carry out the crimes against "evil doers" and 'hey we had to follow orders'. Of course they made up this God so the entire set of writings are just propaganda.
If you want to have some fun read the Old Testament carefully and write down all the crimes that you find, the perpetrators, the victims, and the reasons given by the perpetrators for the crimes that they committed.
What you will see is a very long list that looks something like:
Crime Perpetrator Victim Reason given
15,000 people murdered Israelites Moab God told us (Isrealites) to murder them
If you document the entire Old Testament this way you will have hundreds and hundreds of crimes carried out by the Israelites and the reason usually given is always "God told us to commit the crime". But sometimes they just commit horrific crimes for fun.
Oh, and the best part is that these criminals didn't actually hear God speaking directly, always one of their "holy" men talked to God and then told the Israelites to commit the murders. "God told us to murder every man, woman, and child of Jericho except the prostitute that helped our spies so that all of her friends and relatives could be murdered by us", the Israelite holy man told the Israelites that God had said this about Jericho.
Now, if someone acted like this today they would be branded as lunatic mass murderers and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
The Old Testament is a historic text which lists hundreds of horrific crimes carried out by jealous liars who made up a fake "God" and instituted a "religion" where male priests had absolute power over everyone. These lying murderers claim to be the "holy children of God". What a crock.