• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    Because they’re completely different gods. The old testament is only a part of christianity because in order to gain some legitimacy for their early church, they decided that their new god must be the same dude as the the god of the people that they were living among.

    But in reality, they are very different books, written in very different times, by two very different religious cultures.

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      9 days ago

      Yeah, they are “very different books” each individually comprised of “very different books,” and all of the other books that eventually got left out are a lot of the best parts. I haven’t read them, but it feels like how my friend used to describe the Star Wars extended universe books.