god came to me today and we talked.

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how is it that if i was serious about that today people would most likely think im crazy? but people believe when it was said in the bible that those people were prophets or something?

Time makes things gain credibility. If I said a brand new office block was haunted people would laugh, but if I said a 14th century monestary was haunted people would take it more seriously.

I think even in ancient times, people who said something like this would be questioned, scrutinized. Madness was also known of back then, and some things were identified as either madness or heresy. If what you said agreed with most people's sensibilities of spiritual matters, or they felt it expanded in a convincing way on what they understood of spiritual matters, and if something you did seemed rather amazing to them in a positive way, then you'd be considered a holy person. It was never just a random, oh this guy we've never seen before says the sky is purple so now we all believe it's purple.

We don't know that many details about the history of the Bible, only educated guesses, so there was likely something that convinced people of the Biblical prophets' veracity - whether they were really prophets or not. For the Israelites a lot of the Bible teachings provided a central identity for them, where before they had been a wandering nomadic tribe, loosely connected and without anything that particularly identified them. The teachings found in the Hebrew Bible brought them together as a people, and this somehow worked in their favor, otherwise they would have vanished as a people and so would their teachings.

In my opinion, if Jesus existed at all, then he was likely a man with schizophrenia giving rise to god delusions / hallucinations.

Tisk Tisk Tisk he could have been a aspie