ajwps
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I posted the original reply, BECAUSE you never answered the question. My intent on asking the question should not matter if you have the truth. I all ask was that you answer the question.
Yurt I am attempting to determine your original QUESTION so that I may reply to it.
Your original post:
In the time of Jesus and specifically in the holy land, the majority of the people were for the most part very educated and learned even without mass media newspapers or TV.
In those days, most every boy child was required to read, write and learn from childhood. The same as with Jesus and every young male, they went to school and even after they went to work as young adults were required to continue learing and studying their Biblical texts (Torah and the Talmud) concerning subjects such as civil laws, rules dealing with daily activity between one's fellow men and women, trade, ethics, criminal law and many more subjects. This is what is referred to in the NT Gospel that Jesus went to study with the Rabbis in the Synagogues which also infers that the majority of all males in those days and continues to this very day but to a lesser degree now with Jewish children.
Girl children were not required to learn and study to the same extent but were required to mainly learn the duties and obligations of Jewish women in the home and family.
So your contention that people were uneducated as compared to today is incorrect. This word of mouth to other word to mouth information was incorrect. There was a historian of the day by the name of Josephus. A Jewish man who under the rules of the Roman government actually wrote down the history of that time as derived from observation and perusing the library of information provided by the Romans. We actually have a record of the events of those days. The fact that Josephus history even in a small part spoke of the man Jesus is now pretty much accepted to be later additions to Josephus history by Christian revisionists in an attempt for proof of Jesus.
http://www.africawithin.com/religion/jesus_puzzle.htm
See the Flavius Josephus translation history of those times at:
http://www.biblenet.net/library/josephus/warTOC.html
Second, if you really believe that a stone tablet is comparable with today's writing standards, please, give me something better. It was not until the printing press that mass media began to be available. That was my point, there was NOT mass media back then. Therefore, most people handed down stories through oral history.
Actually I was attempting to demonstrate that the ability of mankind to write on a media existed long before the time of Jesus Christ as seen by the time frame of the first known attempt by man to put down words on a stone media.
Oral histories soon became distorted as is the nature of the human mind. The only exception is that if one man was required to memorize one simple line or paragraph and pass it on to another man verbatim to memorize the same identical words and on to another. There is no evidence that this was the way the NT was passed onto the Gospel writers some 60 to 90 years after the death of Jesus on the cross.
Keep being sorry. You ignore history claiming famine in all of Rome, and decide to believe a twisted view that a famine only occured in Jerusalem. You take the term "world wide" and decide that somehow it only applies to Jerusalem. Way to go AJ. I hope you don't treat your patients the same way. Do you give them root canals instead of treating their problem areas too? 
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