Does the holy bible teach people how to read?

Does the holy bible teach people how to read?
If not and everyone was illiterate how would someone come to become literate or does literacy come from outside the bible in extra biblical education?

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>does a book teach people how to read

well it's meant to be the ultimate truth and therefore if you require something outside of it to be able to take part of it that kind of makes it lose its centrality.

If everyone forgot how to read every script that the bible was written on how would anyone come to know of it?

The Bible is a liturgical document, not a personal handbook. You don’t need every man, woman, and child to read it.

That was the whole point of the church to have priests reading and interpreting the bible/scripture to lay people

>The Bible is a liturgical document, not a personal handbook. You don’t need every man, woman, and child to read it.
So the script and writing predated the bible?

prior to the writings of the new testament everyone didn't need the truth or God?

Greek and Hebrew? Yes.
They did but it hadn’t been revealed to them yet.

why was there writing and a script predating the new testament or old testament writings if they are eternal truths that existed since the beginning of time?

Prior to the time period of their authorship knowledge of those eternal things wasn't required?

The ideas in the Holy Bible predate the book and even Jesus. Jesus himself was the messiah promised in the Old Testament and Justin Martyr explains that the seeds of the Logos was found in the virtuous pagans. The Bible itself can be dated but it’s contents cannot. They are pre-ancient. There’s nothing inherently divine or religious about script. A person could learn to be literate and have nothing at all to do with religion or philosophy.

>The ideas in the Holy Bible predate the book and even Jesus.
Any evidence that people had the ideas of the Holy Bible prior to writing it and if so why didn't they write it as soon as they could with literature?
The Old Testament was written by various authors over a long time period same with the new testament if they are eternal why are they authored at different times?

No way he isn't baiting

Yes. This is what the Church fathers called the seeds of the Logos. See Justin Martyr. That which the Holy Bible refers to can exist eternally without the Holy Bible itself existing eternally. The book and that which it refers to are not the same thing.

>The book and that which it refers to are not the same thing.
Why wasn't the bible written down from the time humans first had any writing then?

The Holy Bible contains revelation as delivered through the person of Jesus Christ. Christ was the fulfillment of historical prophecies and established the Holy Tradition. That said, many of the ideas contained in the Holy Bible do pre-date the Bible itself and they were written down.

The Church used to remain in power by withholding power from the masses.
Education was basically a sin, your local priest was (very conveniently..) your only link to God and you had to attend mass by law in many places.
Here in Sweden religion fell apart the moment the church was removed from the state, from power. When the "powers up high" could no longer blackmail people into attending church, giving their fortunes to the church or even tell people how to live? It didn't stand a chance.

why weren't the books canon since eternity and highlight the list of books which would be eternally the truth rather than rely on the arbitration of a man from a certain time period?

A canon book could explain only writings of Joe, Isaac, David, Yeshua will be canon in the future they will be born in (insert location, time, and physical appearance) bam there is no more confusion as to the eternal true canon as the future writers write more of the eternal knowledge by the true canon authors.

>he doesn't know

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First of all, Jesus wasn’t only a man living in a certain time period. Jesus was literally the same nature as God and existed with him eternally. It’s through Jesus that we receive divine revelation and the Holy Tradition as fulfillment of the messianic prophecies, which have to be historical. The teachings in the Bible come by way of Christ, who was historical, even though the teachings he is referring to may be eternal. Obviously, we couldn’t write about the fulfillment of a prophecy or revelation before it is fulfilled or before it’s revealed to us. That said, you will find many of the ideas that the Bible refers to are essentially primordial. They’re contained in some of the oldest scripts we have. Moreover, we have to keep in mind that not every civilization valued canonical literature as we do. When you read Greek history for example, you find there’s very little interest in ideas that predate Greek culture, which would prohibit a canon passed on from culture to culture, civilization to civilization from the beginning obviously. Still, you can’t confuse the writing with the things to which the writings refer. For the Christian, the Holy Bible comes from Jesus Christ who was the fulfillment of necessarily historical prophecy. Jesus could not have died for our sins before he has done so obviously.

What prevented Jesus from getting stabbed 4,000 years ago to die for our sins?
Did people not need his salvation then?

People apparently didn't need Jesus or god for about 250 000 years.

I think as people bound to time and space we can’t know alternative timelines or why God works in the way He does. At the very least, we could say Christ was necessarily the fulfillment of certain prophecies and those prophecies are historical, implying a particular time and place. We also cannot say whether those that came before him were saved or not.