The new testament is basically written in "wardine be cry" language. Koine greek was a bastardized patois not respected in the world of greek literature.
The New Testament is boring as fuck. The Old Testament has all these wonderful stories about the meaning of hardship and the personal characters of great men, and then the New Testament is just like, "Believe and you'll be saved".
>>7616120
Which is exactly why it worked so well.
You don't need to be a hero, see. You just need this one weird tip!Yes, I know there's more to it than that.
>>7616120
New Testament has better prose than Old Testament though.
All religions end up like that, because it is the ultimate distillation of the religious thought pattern
Om mani padme hum, mirite?mirite
>>7616107
It was written for a people who weren't much liked themselves before they started copulating like rabbits and deceiving good people with their slave ideals.