1 John 1
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Introduction, The Incarnate Word
1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life— 2 and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us— 3 what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. 4 These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.
Revelation 1:9
9 I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and [g]perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was [h]in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, 11 saying, “Write in a [i]book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”
Whoever wrote this stuff claimed to be the same John who hung out with Jesus.
Read the original document.
Oh right. There is no original document or copies of said documents.
These have been concocted from letters written in response to a request by Paul and those were most likely written by scribes.
I say “probably” because there were zero/zilch written, published or copied from original writings.
I still say that the creation of the bible was one of the most beneficial things that occurred through out history but due to the time and nature of literacy throughout the entire world at that time, there was a very small minority that could actually read and write.
The middle east was the worst in that regard. Greeks, Mesopotamians, Romans and some Germanic tribes could read and write.
The NASB version of the bible was first published in 1995.
That is like trying to relate to Moby Dick in today’s realities and language.
Read Moby Dick sometime and you will not understand much of it as it was written over a century ago.
The Bible was supposedly written 2 thousand century ago.