I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me

Re:I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me by M_Grey on Thursday October 20, 2016 @12:05PM (#12753520)

Who knows. It's hard to tell at a 2000 year remove, when it's known that various scriptures have been heavily edited, redacted, etc. Mostly it seems like he was an early version of "Reform" Judaism that turned into a cult.

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Re:I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me by ejanus on Friday October 21, 2016 @04:05PM (#12764154)

Any supporting materials to what you just said?

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Re:I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me by M_Grey on Friday October 21, 2016 @05:12PM (#12764865)

http://www.nola.com/religion/index.ssf/2011/03/changes_to_th...

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/17/138281522/how-bible-stories-ev...

https://skepticalteacher.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/the-embarr...

Beyond that, it's the entire history of the document, with the first 400 or so years being particularly amusing. To be clear, it's not like the same isn't true for other scriptures. You know that lovely story about Moses' birth? Just a ripoff of Sargon of Akkad's origin story, which was almost certainly not original.

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