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F*O*A*D

On 2/25/14, 12:43 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:53:38 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

2. Here's an easier one just for you. Jesus supposedly was an itinerant
teacher of the Torah and if he were, he was taught his knowledge of
Torah, the total knowledge base of things Jewish up until his time. This
would require the ability to read and write. You can hardly be a teacher
of the Torah without that ability. So, if Jesus was a teacher of the
Torah, what excuse can you offer up for his failing to leave behind even
a scrap of a scroll in his own words and writing?

I hesitate to step into this **** storm but I bet most of the people
who taught the Torah ever saw a hard copy of it or could have read it
if they did. This was more of a spoken tradition than a script that
they read.

That also explains a lot of the weird **** they came up with and why
there are so many versions of the bible.

When you have sheep herders sharing yarns around the camp fire,
stories change a little from time to time.

The "oral tradition" of learning and teaching from the Torah died out
several hundred years before the birth of Jesus because of the
persecution of the Jews, who realized that depending upon oral tradition
would result in the death of what had been passed down.

Jesus preached in what back then was the hotbed area of Jewish study and
education. Long, complicated and beautifully phrased sermons are
attributed to him. I doubt these would have been the product of an
illiterate.

Which gets me back to the original question: why would the alleged son
of god be illiterate?