Strange Brew by John Deering for June 21, 2023

The legal team! What about the smiting needed there?

Maybe it could find a niche market as an e-book.

In the beginning- there was an epigraph.

Well, it did take “from the beginning” to the 4th century to get the thing published.

In the literary world, it is the author who is “smote” by the publisher.

Publish or perish

Humans wrote the bible, humans translated it and rewrote it several times to suit.

Smote? Smitten?

Bwaaaahaaahaaa….I’ll get even…one day…revenge is mine!

He looks more like God than Emperor Constantine.

This is all a testament to God’s patience.

Your book doesn’t fit our needs right now, but if you could turn it into a musical…

And then there was the begatting. :)

Johann Gutenberg would find this strip peculiar.

You think the gospels were actually written by the apostles? They were all fishermen or laborers – neither of which had any schooling or knew how to write. Only scribes and perhaps some upper class folks could read and write back then. So who did write the gospels? Terms in them indicate they were written long after Jesus would have died. Mark probably is the earliest and it was not written until after about A.D. 55. They were not written by eye witnesses. As for Biblical accuracy – there is no evidence for the Exodus, the United Kingdoms, or for Jesus having to be born in Bethlehem. All of that is made up. There are no sites in the Sinai from said Exodus. No grand kingdom since either the Egyptians or Hittites controled the region when the United Kingdom would have existed. There was no Roman census at all during Herod’s reign (we have the Roman records about the censuses they requested), thus no need for Jesus’ folks to travel to Bethlehem. Did you know God had a wife? Ostrica that have been recovered have a depiction and description of Yahweh’s consort, Asherah. There are a lot of additional things wrong, but only believers go by the book and not by what archaeologists have found in the Levant.