"In the beginning was the word [of God] " was a mis-translation in Genesis from the Greek . It should have been "In the beginning was the conversation" . So that was the basic thing where a few people of power started the idea of God. Thank Darwin we are correcting their mistakes on this site. Apparently Erasmus spotted this but Jerome's mistake was carried forward nevertheless.
Source : ' In Our Times ' series of the BBC Radio 4 Podcast on 'Humanism
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Considering that much of the bible was originally written in the tenth century, b.c......translated to latin sometime around 400 a.d., and then translated to english in the 1500s a.d.....and figuring theres so much lost, mis-understood, added on. Lied about, ect.
HankSherman
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Nov 14, 2020
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