Chili

But he does and that is made clear in Jn.5:39=40

Joan of Bark

So you are admitting we don't need the Bible? And how come I never heard anything from Him? And why can't believers agree on what God wants from us?

Chili

Admitting? I am the only one here to speak against bible reading and called the Gutenburg press a giant yeast factory.

He never talks to me either and that is just fine with me.

Because God doesn't want anything from us until one is 'called by name' and then you are no longer part of "us."

Joan of Bark

Thanks Chili, I actually understood one of your posts for a change. A giant yeast factory ... I'll have to remember that one.

Julian

Not a lot of useful posts in this thread. A situation not helped by two exceedingly silly posts by mountainman that leaves one torn between stunned disbelief and mocking laughter. Absurd assertion after absurd assertion.

Literacy in antiquity is generally assumed to have been somewhat less than 15% but probably not too much lower. Since books were expensive and relatively rare, this isn't as big of a problem as it would be to us today, it was simply a different cultural paradigm. People went to hear readings, stories, debates, all the things that we tend to read today. Not a bad way to do things, really.

Julian