• terwn43lp@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    you’re not accounting for “missing” pages of the bible. after thousands of years, shit just gets lost

    you can downvote me but you’re delusional to think the Bible isn’t missing parts like Jesus’ whole adolescence. i swear the stupidity from reddit is leaking

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      Many books are entirely missing, but not because they were ‘lost’; they were removed from canon, primarily by the Vatican, but by other authorities, too. A Protestant set of them is known as the Apocrypha.

      Some of these censored books have been included in various editions. Most were removed because they were controversial for some reason or another. Often the removed texts have as much reason to exist as others that were included, but they were politically problematic.

      Amongst my favourites includes a nativity story in which baby Jesus fights a dragon. I feel cheated that version was edited out.

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      3 days ago

      Sure, there are parts of the story missing. I don’t say there’s anything wrong when Dune does a time skip though. It’s understandable that the author didn’t consider anything important to be happening in that time, so they save time by just skipping it. Just like we don’t need to hear about them sleeping or anything. Authors generally don’t write about meaningless things.

        • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Eh, it’s one of those ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ moments. I had read the bible front to back a few times as a kid, but it wasn’t until a college class that taught the bible as literature, not religious truth, that I remembered where it was pointed out that in the book judges a bunch of people found the book of deuteronomy and brought it to the religious leader of the time to ask if it was real or whatever. I think the whole episode comprised six verses or less.