In fact they were likely more educated than either you or I.
Are you joking? No man at that time was more educated than the average 3rd grader today.
"A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape." Proverbs 19:5
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“He too was exceedingly arrogant. ... Strutting around the place with his friends and admirers … The resemblance between you is uncanny." - Snape on you and Jaysus, Harry Potter Series
Atheists are usually wrong. You got the wrong book/film series to compare to Jesus, the Bible and me.
You are referring to Harry Potter because it is about the occult, witchcraft, wizardry and popular fiction which you compare to Jesus, the Bible and me. Nothing can be further from the truth. We, both believers and non-believers, have a higher power, God, to answer to. There was no higher power with Harry Potter. In our case, Jesus will be the judge, jury and executioner during Final Judgment. He's part of the Godhead. The Bible condemns belief in witchcraft, wizardry and spiritism. The only supernatural we believe is God and his works.
(For children stories relating to the Bible, I recommend The Chronicles of Narnia series by CS Lewis. I know you didn't mean to discuss children's stories, but there is a difference when relating to the Bible.)
When you are careless and wrong, about what we have been discussing, you will be punished and have to pay the ultimate price. God, the supernatural and the Bible are difficult to learn, but once a person has faith, then it becomes part of them and the truth comes alive. You have been in denial and tricked by Satan's evolutionary thinking that you have got things backwards. Good is bad. Bad is good. Satan is the master of lies and trickery, so it's easy to see his effect on non-believers.
If you were right, then you'd have the answers and we'd be following you. Instead, we see lack of empirical evidence, systematic elimination of God, the supernatural and Bible as scientific hypothesis, denial of what God and creationism states and rebelling through man's creation of evolutionary science, and ignorance that Satan is influencing you to rebel against the truth.
Remember when Gilgamesh was first brought up and non-believers thought they found a contradiction to Noah's story? It spread fast indeed! However, the believers countered with a slew of global flood stories and it backed up what the Bible said. The Ark Encounter was having monetary difficulty in being completed and suddenly the Bill Nye vs Ken Ham debate became something that people would watch on the internet. Over 3 million people tuned in. It made enough money for them to complete building. Ha ha.
What does evolution have? They lost money using Lucy, australopithicus afarensis, as a museum attraction. Is there any book/film series that has become popular based on evolutionary thinking and ToE? The only person I can think who was successful was Darwin and he used racism to sell his books. Most regular people do not understand his book just like you.