tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385543751878406713.post7878015524187970136..comments2024-02-26T21:31:18.490-05:00Comments on The Wrong Monkey: The Ancient Israelites WERE Dumb Enough To Take The Biblical Stories Literally Steven Bollingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215202747829300924noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385543751878406713.post-86741986637437494282020-03-24T12:54:41.223-04:002020-03-24T12:54:41.223-04:00Not true. The Synoptic Gospels for one, was never ...Not true. The Synoptic Gospels for one, was never intended to be understood literally. That is why every single one of the authors of the synoptic gospels felt free take take the original gospel, named after Mark, and adapt it for their own audiences and purposes. That is why the gospels contradict one another so much. The Church took these gospels, written by anonymous authors (in good Greek whereas the people who the Church claim to be the authors were Aramaic speak Jews.)and named them after apostles and companions of apostles to give them more authority. To be more specific, it was Bishop Irenaeus who named them late in the second century. It was also him that decided that there were only four gospels (There were umpteen) to be included in the Bible because "there were four wind directions" and "the earth had four corners." John Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12972992224191847903noreply@blogger.com