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Originally Posted by Actor
How do you know no one could do it? We're talking about a species that sent twelve of their members to the moon. Getting a bunch of fictional stories to agree with one another really doesn't seem that much of a challenge, particularly if each writer had access to the writings of his predecessors and took care that his own writings did not upset the apple cart. He would want to do that least he be charged with heresy and killed. Of course if he were charged with heresy he could always claim "scribal error" or "context".
Most of the "stories" don't have to agree with each other. They're mostly stand alone stories with little opportunity to conflict with any of the others. The exceptions would be the books of Samuel, Chronicles and Kings, and the Gospels of course.
Are you certain that there are "hundreds of stories"? Without actually listing them (a project I don't have time for) my estimate would be that there are less than one hundred.
Most of the Bible is not stories. It's theology, philosophy and poetry.
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Shirley U. Jest. The bible is mostly narrative. And that would have to be some humongous editing job. Did the writers of subsequent generations hold seances with their predecessors to conspire with them? How would all of the subsequent generations have known they were supposed make their writings gel with all the others? Not much of a job, indeed.
