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Originally Posted by Joe Mage  Not ta mention that these stories were told for many generations 'fore they were finally written down and then compiled. With each tellin' the story was slightly changed or exaggerated, it's not that the story didn' have any historical signifigance; it's jus' that it's no longer exactly the way it had happened. This is also what happened wit many Native American oral traditions. One has ta remember that many of the Bible's, in particular the ones in the Old Testament, stories were, originally, told orally. So they're most likely stories that r based on events that actually happened, but were changed wit each tellin' 'fore they were finally written down.  |
Not to mention as the religion really started to get going, priests, bishops and other in the churches high order started to making changes to it, taking thing out, adding things in, so on and so forth. After all, who would dare challenge the church? Any one who did would be killed because that would be considered heresy and against god and blah blah blah when in fact people were just simply scratching there heads saying wait a minute, something is not right, and the rest takes care of its self. That can be said for all the religions by the way.