“I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts. For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return. Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?” —Ecclesiastes 3:18–21 Atheists take victory lap. Told you so.
Dang it! The bible's authors forgot to screen that bit out along with all the other stuff they screened out or added in.
If you read this Wiki, you'll get to understand, that is if you take the blinkers off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Bible But mind numbingly stupid christians still insist it's the word of God. Historicity of the Bible The historicity of the Bible is the question of the Bible's relationship to history—covering not just the Bible's acceptability as history but also the ability to understand the literary forms of biblical narrative.[1] One can extend biblical historicity to the evaluation of whether or not the Christian New Testament is an accurate record of the historical Jesus and of the Apostolic Age. This tends to vary depending upon the opinion of the scholar.....
Most modern scholars hold that the canonical gospel accounts were written between 70 and 100,[112] four to eight decades after the crucifixion, although based on earlier traditions and texts, such as "Q", Logia or sayings gospels, the passion account or other earlier literature (See List of Gospels). Some scholars argue that these accounts were compiled by witnesses[113][114] although this view is disputed by other scholars.[115]
The lying church heirachy want you to believe their myths, if you don't believe, the Devil will get you. So they cap the bible with the Book of Revelations, which is a pure nonsensicle book of ravings of a lunatic which no one understands, but the thread of this book is; fire and brimstone for unbelievers, guilt for all non conformists to the message. The Book of Revelations is like Gann in trading, full of impossible to understand garble which appears mystical, lines which run helter skelter and open to a thousand interpretations. When you cloak writings in mystical mythical mumbo jumbo, it is created to confuse under the guise of higher intelligence. In ET, think Hershey.
The attraction of Hershey's writings have died down now, but I'm sure in about 50 years time it will be resurrected by someone and it will become a cult following, with all sorts of add ons which Hershey never thought of.
Hi Frederick, ========= "I'm an atheist, so I don't believe in a deity or an afterlife." =========== I don't know how you have reached this conclusion. Is this with great thought and deliberation? Is yes it is, I would be interested in hearing how you came to this conclusion, -- if you would be Ok with sharing. (private message is fine if you prefer).