Nothing is supposed to be impossible for the Bible God.He could have progressed Israel far into the future and many generations ahead of their time.He could have made all their babies prodigies and could have "enlightened" the leaders and the people with the wisdom to produce,not only a functional society,but a superlative one.
"The entire Bible is like the terms and conditions that pop up when you install software. No one reads it, you just scroll down to the bottom and click 'I Agree'" That is the best analogy for the buy-bull I've ever heard!
Exodus 22:18 Do not allow a sorceress to live … so sorcerers (m) are okay. Got it. They believed that sorcery exists, but the practice was forbidden only for women.
Could that explain why selecting 1080p in settings and the video still appears in 480p? i.e. the upload went wrong? edit: I'll try and rip the video via some downloader and see if it improves.... Further edit: nup, it's youtube sending some compressed-af version over, the downloaded/ripped version of this video worked fine ._.
Damn, I've actually had one of these situations occur here on the ranch! A neighbor bought a young goat, but the people she bought it from lied and said it was weaned when it was only about a week old. I raise goats, and had babies and nursing dams, so I took it to bottle feed and raise for her until it could eat on it's own. At 3 months, he was ready for her to take him back, but she was too busy to come get him. Then a "hunter" shot and took him for their BBQ. The third time one of my goats was stolen like that. Always happens during deer season. Sounds like I would be responsible for that goat according to this chapter! No good deed goes unpunished.
@@francelaferriere6106 No. They knew it was a goat, they were just lazy. What's easier to shoot and kill, a friendly pet goat or a wild deer with self-preservation instincts that he would have to track down? People suck.
How weak you have to be, to be listening to nonsense tales and to think it will give you strength to get through the week. You should be stone for being the weak😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂
What if the fire is caused by lightning, i.e. an Act of God? Is he going to pay for the property damage? Or is he going to ignore his own rules? Wait, I think I already know the answer to that one.
Holy shit, the whole "donkey monopoly" plan absolutely killed me. 😂😂😂 These bible studies somehow keep getting better. I'll keep watching all they way to the end of Revelations if both of us make it.
If religious zealots insist on putting a monument bearing the Ten Commandments, in public spaces, then atheists should put one up next to it with the Old Testament commandment where a pregnant woman suspected of adultery can be dragged before a priest so he can lay a curse on her which will cause her to miscarry if the baby is not her husband's. (Numbers 5:11)
That rule actually said that a woman won't be able to bear children if she cheated on her husband (and maybe even will be able if she didn't cheat on him). But the bible never talks about what happens if the woman is pregnant, so we must assume by default that the same applies to them, something that will cause a miscarriage.
In this area of the bible, can't remember where, is where God had his priests perform abortion with his concoctions. So many Christians don't realize God had his own version of Planned Parenthood. Only God punishes and blames women, instead of helping them.
Or how about the one that says if a woman is found not to be virgin on her wedding night,she will be stoned to death in front of her father's house? Or the one that says that if a priest's daughter defiles herself by promiscuity,she must be burned to death.Then tell the children that God is love.
@@idaniluz652 There is some idea of science in this , depending on the likes of the spread of HPAP which can cause infertility so you can see that the observation can be backward linked to the occurrence. There are (and I dont say they are caused by God as any Punishment,) the spread of viruses and bacteria by contact and close relationships.
The rule about not charging interest in loans was taken seriously by the church but that was only between Christians, so they turned to the very people who made that rule when they need a loan.
“And that is how people become Christian” Pretty sure I had more of a “my parents downloaded this virus protection software, didn’t read the terms and conditions, then gave this computer to me with a software that acted more like malware itself.” situation.
This is soooo much better than Sunday school or Bible studies with the pastor. I always thought the rules were too picayune. Most lessons stop at the big 10 and pick up in Leviticus.
Guys, I talked to Hamant, after he read us the 10 commandments and we concluded. Since the Lord said we must work for six days and on the seventh day we must rest. But Hamant has been resting for six days and work on the seventh day by reading us one chapter. So he said, this week will be different, we might be having a couple of episodes in a week... I know how u all feel, u can thank me later😆😆
I will defiantly thank you if this is a true prophecy, but in the meantime, you can lean to spell our Friendly Atheist’s name correctly: Hemant Mehta …. “HE MAN T” makes it every easy to remember! Cheers, peace & love, Kenny from Philly
@@sengembale1722 No worries! Thank you & congratulations on your very accurate prophecy! I was delighted to see an additional video from Hemant,, our friendly neighborhood Atheist! Cheers, Kenny from Philly
@@AngryBilleh ... well.. not better than when I went to church. Parents made us 3 boys go every Sunday. We’d sit in our van in the church parking lot toking down and laughing for an hour and then go back home.
I🤩😍Hemant. I could listen to him read the Bible day and night.. especially at night. I snuggle up in bed and hit play. best bedtime stories ever. so hilarious how Hemant tells it, calling out the bs. ❤
Hemant is definitely in my top three favorite TH-camrs. Actually, he and Beau of the Fifth Column tie for first place for my favorite, because they've both taught me so much!
"Do not allow a sorceress to live" I sometimes wonder if by sorcery they just meant science. Think about it! In a lot of ancient cultures they are one in the same (eg think about alchemy and witch doctors). And even now science would look like magic to ancient people So is the law somewhat saying dont allow educated women to live? Far fetched I know but its just a thought :3!
I want to show you something that the Bible is NOT a religious book. It is written for the children of Israel NOT everyone on earth ( NOT ALL PEOPLE)! The Bible has NOTHING TO DO WITH CHRISTIANITY! Remember everyone on earth has a culture! This is NO DIFFERENT! Do you realize WE so called black people are the people in this book!
I would like to bring out something else’s! The so called African American MAN has never oppressed BLACK WOMEN! And nether did the ISRAELITE MAN ( OUR PEOPLE) our true nationality!
@@shaul558 If you're going to own the Hebrew Bible(Old Testament) you have own up to all of the oppression of women written throughout the pages of the "Scriptures". If you were to be intellectually honest, you would have to see that women were only seen as property. Does that remind you of anything?
@@todradmaker4297 That is absolutely NOT TRUE. We Hebrew didn’t treat our women like trash. That was the GENTILE man! Our woman were taken care of ….Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,… have you read Susanna? Or Judith? Did you know the comforter ( HOLY SPIRIT) is Female ( WISDOM) ? Again who take scroll ( BOOKS ) out of the Bible and change words?? You already know 👉🏿🧔🏼♂️👱🏻♀️
I found this channel last week.... needless to say I'm done with genesis and am anxiously awaiting the rest of exodus. Also watching all the other videos on the channel and I think the TH-cam algorithmed me into one of his other channels too. I really enjoy all of it.
U welcome to the Sunday Bible story telling... Let's hope u won't develop BP coz the Lord hardens Hemant's heart so that he can only read us one chapter ever after seven days,
according to this verse, a cheeseburger is fine because it's a cow (or baby cow) that was fried, and then on top of it a (probably not from it's mother's) milk product.
Those rules were made by goat herders as guidelines for other goat herders. I'm sure they'll come in handy just in case any of us decide to take up goat herding, someday.
The Bible was written by and for,a bunch of ignorant,uneducated,pre-science,superstitious,and ancient/primitive,and brutal/barbarian men,that didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground and did a piss poor job in trying to describe things they didn't understand.It should have never been passed down to modern society.It is completely irrelevant.
@@collingalanos1783 There are 37 million goats in North America alone. Texas alone makes up 38% of production in the US. The human population of Canada is 37 million.
Thank you for your content. Just found your channel and really enjoy listening. It is refreshing to find an arena that shares my views. Keep up the great work!
Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people. - Exodus 22:28 Excellent! There’s one to throw in the faces of those Bible bashing Biden critics.
A friend of mine once told me that "sorceress" or "witch" were mistranslations & the actual word is more accurately "poisoner", as in one who poisons wells.
How about when they were in Egypt and the magicians were able to perform some miracles. "But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt." Exodus 8:7 / I guess it was correctly translated given the previous context
@@AccidentalNinja just out of curiosity I found the hebrew version of the bible and the word is: מְכַשֵּׁפָה / dictionary says - witch / sorceress. No other way... Source www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0222.htm
I have read the bible, cover to cover, twice in my life. I've made it a point not to remember chapter and verses as most Christians do, and just take in what is actually in the Bible. It is a huge book with many confusing story lines. It is easy to get confused in what it actually says and what God wants you to do between the lines. Accept button very relevant here. I love what you are doing and it is a refresher course for me. Especially when you hear many different Christians tell you their own bastardized versions of what the Bible tells you. I don't know if you realize how important what you are doing is, well, important. Maybe someday it will be realized and recognized. Oh, btw, multiple chapter per week please. I know, I have this dead donkey in the closet and I am not afraid to reuse it. Edited for typo.
Thou shalt not kill . . . unless god changes his mind. Then it's not only fine, but he commands you to kill. And god changes his mind a LOT, so you can never really tell what mundane offense might get you killed.
It's actually pretty predictable. Just about anything you could do or fail to do will get you killed somewhere in the bible. Or, maybe one of your distant ancestors did or didn't do it. It's the world's most deranged Faerie Tale book!
I would totally be on board with schools putting up all the useless and pointless rules from the Bible if that's what fundamentalists want. It would at least get the kids talking about the Bible, even if it is because they would know for sure that it's gibberish.
So, at 4:00, when something is stolen from the neighbour, then it is quite different of something being taken away from the same neighbour while no one was looking. Crazy writers... psychopaths!
One thing, the firstborn sons didn't become priests unless they were Levites so I don't know what it means to give them to the Lord but all the other times Israelites gave things to the Lord, it was on an altar. What else can you do with an eight-day-old baby? "Do the same with the cattle and sheep, let them stay with their mothers for seven days", it is clearly saying that the boys are taken after seven days so unless they invented the baby bottle, they would never make it to week two. I can think of no way, except your huge assumption, that these babies became priests and I can think of no reasonable way to explain these verses, you said "we know what God does to first-born sons" and we should remember what we know.
According to exodus 13:13, they are to be redeemed. You're right: the levites were the priests. (The sons of aaron according to the p source. The levites according to other sources.) There were a few non-levite exceptions like melchizedek and samuel. P.s. samuel was a levite according to chronicles, but an ephraimite according to samuel.
Don’t know about ancient Israelites but in ancient Arabia it was common to give your babies away for some weeks to years to another woman who would suckle them (it was also believed that these children would become „milk siblings“ just like „regular“ siblings). This was widely practiced, probably more by the better-offs of society. Could be the case here too maybe? Dunno.
Anything that you completely dedicate to me *must be completely destroyed,*it cannot be bought back or sold.Every *person* animal and piece of property that you dedicate completely is only for me.In fact,any *humans* who have been promised to me in this way- *"must be put to death."*-(Lev.27:28-29)
I think it is a contrast, normally ((say in Britain), the old joke was first born - inherits the family estate, second born - goes into politics, third -born goes into the military and the fourth the church ! Overall first born idea is they get the inheritence of God, not that of man, which is an honour and a blessing - and its argueably a proprecy about Jesus as the first born being for the service of God,
Thanks for your chapter by chapter reading of the Bible! I’m currently reading the Bible and watch your videos after reading the chapter. I’m already in Leviticus now so more videos per week please :) maybe on patreon to pay for your time away from your family? I’m willing to pay for that service.
And none of them have actually read their bibles! They balance their brain-dead "faith" on just a few cherry-picked verses and the opinions of their favorite con artist, oops! cleric. A good idea to understand their vile bible better than they do.
1. 613 mini commandments, actually, which is still a lot, but remember that this was pretty much all ripped right from the Hammurabi Code. These are laws based on equivalency for the most part, except when it comes to cattle, because those were fairly rare in the area and were considered signs of status. Even as far east as a, why do you think cattle are sacred to the Hindus? The Indo-Aryans brought them into India for trade, profit, and food, and it became huge part of the culture, so sacred status was eventually granted. Same with the whole golden calf situation. 2. Snort, oh, THAT'S kind. So if you're poor and you steal to eat, you get to be slave if you're caught! Lovely. And, like, I've studied this shit in university, but I forgot how specific it got. 3. Jew, Hemant. You'd make a good Jew. Most Christians don't follow all of these. My brother (TMI, but still) didn't even get the...uhh...snippity-snip. Lucky him. XD 4. "Sorceress" has a rather broad definition, unfortunately. Even herbalists and healers could be considered magical, because even when their remedies DID work, the people didn't understand the science of why, yet, so you get a "magic of the gaps" kind of situation here. Like "God of the gaps", only even more mundane. 5. Remember what I told you about the VERY early Jews being henotheistic? Basically, that means that they recognised the existence of multiple gods, namely of those belonging to the empire ruling over the Jewish people at any given time, but the Jews were only actually permitted to WORSHIP Yahweh. They could still say of the other gods, "They exist," but they couldn't worship them after these laws were written. Again, it's the golden calf thing, because the calf or the bull was seen often in Canaan and surrounding areas as either a god or the mount of a god. Even as far east as, again, India, you see Lord Shiva mounted on Nandi the bull. Cattle imagery was VERY widespread in the ancient world, all the way from Greece to India. Look at he map: that's f*cking far. 6. Snort, gotta love that, in both Judaism and Islam, it's considered a religious crime to charge interest, and yet, for Christians...well...the housing crisis being what it is...ugh. That is one law I wish they would take more seriously. 7. Up until kind of recently, at least with Catholicism (I was unfortunately raised Catholic), it WS a tradition that the firstborn son and daughter of a family would join religious orders. Why? Because the church wanted their inheritance money. I shit you not: it was traditional to pass on the rule of the estate to the eldest, right, but then, if the eldest joined the church, all of his property would go to the church instead of being maintained on the family's land. And don't kid yourself: this still went on LONG after the Protestant Reformation put an end to indulgences. They still got their money, just in a different way.
In Uganda the pastors only talk about the tithe and predictions about corrupt leaders but never about the lockdown.. they didn’t predict that God probably is on holy-day getting his wings massaged ... that’s why non predicted the covid 19 pandemic 🙄🤦🏽♀️. Thanks Herman for these episodes 😘
*The Israelite people were indigenous Canaanites.* So where did the Israelite people come from? *The Israelite people were originally Canaanite pastoralists who, in 1300 BCE. changed their economic strategy in response to worsening conditions.* There is substantial evidence for this hypothesis. *Linguistic:* Hebrew and Canaanite language are increasingly indistinguishable the further back you go in the Iron Age. *Material culture:* Israelite and Canaanites shared the same building plans, pottery designs, village layouts, cooking habits … *In Canaan, the chief god was El. El’s wife was Asherah, and his sons include Ba’al and Anut. The Canaanite pantheon is well-understood from the discovery of the Ugaritic texts.* In most English translations of the Hebrew Bible, you will see frequent use of the words “God” and “Lord”. The Hebrew terms for these phrases are more literally translated “El” and “Yahweh”. They are used so interchangeably in the Hebrew Bible that you would think them synonyms. *Names: The very name “Israel” means “house of El”. In contrast, later Israelite names have “Yahweh”-based suffixes e.g., Jehu. Further, most Israelite cities were named after the gods in El’s assembly.* The god Anat was honored in the city of Anathoth, the place of origin of the prophet Jeremiah. The god Dagan in Beth-Dagan. The god El in Beth-El. The god Shamash in Beth-Shamash. The god Shalimu in Jerusalem. *Ritual systems:* The priestly system laid out in Leviticus is very nearly copy-and-pasted from the Ugaritic sacrificial system. *Legal codes:* The Covenant, Holiness, and Deuteronomic law codes share strong parallels with surrounding Canaanite legal systems. *Iconography:* A seal found in Jerusalem in a tomb of the seventh century shows a solar god flanked by two minor gods: “Righteousness” and “Justice” *There are also expressions of polytheism throughout the Hebrew Bible. For example,* “Do you not possess that which Chemosh, your god, has given you? So shall we possess what Yahweh has given us.” Judges 11:24 “Who is like Yahweh among the gods?” Exodus 15:11 “The people of Judah have as many gods as they have towns.” Jeremiah 11:13 *Yahweh was introduced to Israel as a second tier deity (a member of El’s family)* *This can be seen in Deuteronomy 32:8-9, where El gives each of his sons a nation to rule over:* *When El gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of El. For Yahweh’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.* *In Psalm 82, we see Yahweh not at the head of the pantheon, but later asked to assume the job of all gods. “Yahweh stands in the divine assembly of El. Among the divinities, he pronounces judgment… Arise O Yahweh, judge the world; for You inherit all the nations.” Genesis 49:24-25 and Numbers 23-24 also view YHWH and El existing as distinct deities.* We have seen how Yahweh was first worshiped in Midian, and not Israel. Concurrently, El was worshiped in the land of Israel. *Then, when Yahwism emigrated to Israel (incorporation), Yahweh was not recognized as a god of gods. Rather, Yahweh was elevated to this position (equated with El) as the nation of Judah transitioned towards statehood.* *In summary:* The Israelite origin story is largely a patriotic fiction. The Israelite people were indigenous Canaanites. The first Israelites worshiped the pantheon of El. The original Yahweh cult was a Shasu religion located in southern Edom Yahweh was first worshiped as a god of metallurgy The founder of Judaism, Moses, was said to be a Midianite Yahweh was introduced to Israel as a second tier deity (a member of El’s family) Yahweh, god of metallurgy | Fewer Lacunae kevinbinz.com/2018/07/11/yahweh-god-of-metallurgy/
Hey, thanks for reading my book. I must say, you do a better commentary than those friends of my son, but you must stay away from his cousins!!! Shit could get dangerous
Ezekiel 23: 20- There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. Biblical porn- 2,000 years old and still some of the best.
This channel literally answer my wondering about if bible is just like other mythological stories. I remember when I was in seventh grade, I ask myself if what written in the bible was real or just a product of creative mind and just also like other mythology.
Mormons, Jehovas Witnesses, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Christians & Scientologists all hold a “holy book” & Faith; but no evidence. The only time a religion becomes true is when someone provides evidence a God exists. Then they have to prove it’s THEIR god.
As a child I believed that the Bible was the word of God and that Jesus was my savior .In 1988 I had a wonderful girlfriend , we raced motorcycles , we went to bluegrass festivals and did whatever we wanted to do . I realized that I had everything the world said was happiness but I felt something important was missing and I didn't know what it was. I tried scientology , all kinds of yoga, martial arts and various other disciplines but nothing satisfied me . One Sunday morning I came home drunk in a taxicab and waiting outside of my house was a man who was giving my roommate a ride to church. I had gone to alcoholics anonymous for six months and they helped me a lot but I had gone back to drinking .He invited me to sit in his car and talk. He asked me if I wanted a bible study. I said I would love to have a bible study . He came on Monday nights the only night of the week that I didn't drink. It was a 12 week bible study that went from Genesis to Revelation. He showed me in the book of Acts ( Acts 2:38 ) where it said repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost . I said I'd never seen that in the bible and I wanted to get baptized in Jesus' name and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. I got baptized in Jesus' name and prayed for two months to get the Holy Ghost. The night that I got the Holy Ghost I was praying and I started to talk in tongues , I felt wonderful and GOD delivered me from the spirit of alcohol . I have never wanted to drink since then and I praise GOD for that. . The man who gave me the twelve week bible study taught me a ' GODHEAD ' bible study twice but i didn't understand the oneness of God or the trinity . I was reading the bible one day and read Ephesians 4 : 5-6 that i had previously highlighted in my bible . God gave me the revelation of oneness . ' ONE LORD , ONE FAITH , ONE BAPTISM , ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL , WHO IS ABOVE ALL , AND THROUGH ALL ,AND IN YOU ALL ! JOHN 3:16 IS JUST ONE VERSE : YOU NEED TO READ ALL OF CHAPTER THREE TO UNDERSTAND JESUS' PLAN OF SALVATION ! I was a believer from childhood but I wasn't saved . THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS !
Im glad you got save brother. I been addicted to drugs and firnication for over 20 yeah. I use to go to church as a kid but never really understood. Thru my life i have done so much harm to my spirit. I been to hell and back literally. But a few years back i started reading the bible and praying to god. It has take me a while but i finally undestand. My life finally feels like it makes sence. I make me sad to see many ppl talk blasphemy about the good word. It shows that not everyone will be save. People dont understand that is a special place in hell for nonbeliever that talk blasphemy about good and his lesson. I still believe that this guy can be save i pray in Jesus name that he can be deliver from this nonsence. Before its too late
With the feeding of ravaged animals to dogs, brings a whole new meaning to "Who let the dogs out? Who, who?" And in the terms and conditions analogy, is there a arbitration rule preventing the litigation of a dispute? At least in the terms and conditions of a software product, the company or entity "licensing" the software has the good sense to claim that their product is not free of defects or is defect free.
I dont think giving your 1st born to god means to make them priests. The following verse said do the same with your cattle and sheep which was killed as sacrifices not make the animals priests
I choose to believe that the majority of Ancient Jewish priests were actually just very confused livestock that were trained to circumcise human babies.
I think when many Christians read in the Bible that God kills sorcerers and condemns sorcery,that these sorcerers didn't really have magic,they were just pretending to.Even though Pharaoh's sorcerers did some pretty cool stuff with their magic and gave Moses a run for his magic.I know that some believers will say, "That's the old testament"-but I want to know where did those sorcerers go after all these years? Bottom line? The God of the Bible thought sorcery was a real thing.As well as fortune telling and necromancy and curses.
Magic clearly works in the Bible Universe, so those sorcerers were totally legit. Where did they go? They're in hiding and preparing the second coming of Trump.
and other gods. Unless I am mistaken the bible says to worship the god of the Israelistes over all others, it doesn't say the Israelite god is the only one.
@@freedapeeple4049 How could a God be jealous of gods that don't exist? And what's an omniscient being doing having human emotions or reacting to anything? He acts as though he can't see things coming.Hmmm?
Eh, maybe sometimes? You can also determine which version of the bible he is reading from by that line as different versions have different words there. Sometimes it is necromancer, sometimes warlock, sometimes something else.
As Paul said: (I'm paraphrasing) the laws of the Old Testament were "as a schoolmaster"; they prepared people for further knowledge. That phase of schooling was completed when Christ came and changed the syllabus. Because he fulfilled all the requirements of the old Laws, all commandments from His time onwards boil down to 2 instructions: Love God, and love thy neighbour as thyself. Atheists, and many so-called Christians, misunderstand this completely, and Jews are even more misguided.
Once my pastor used this passage as a justification for his theory that if you failed to tithe a month the following month you would have to pay the equivalent of 4 tithes
The Biblical principle around night time offences being punished more vigorously was enshrined in UK law until the late 1960's under the various Felony Acts.
In verses 10 to 13 it appears to contain a contradiction. In the first part it says that if the animal is "taken away while no one is looking", no restitution is needed. But doesn't it characterize a theft which needs a restitution? If someone intends to stole the animal the last thing they want is to be caught. So, what is the difference? It is only theft if the robber is caught?
According to the count kept by Rabbinic Judaism (the dominant Jewish religion) there are 613 commandments total. And this is just from the Hebrew Scriptures included in the Masoretic Text - as Rabbinic Judaism considers that to be the entire Bible. I am sure that if you also include the New Testament or the books included only in the Septuagint there will be more.
@@KeriRautenkranz - It is more than just 603 additional ones - because the ones putting up these monuments overwhelmingly tend to be Evangelical Christians, who (unlike the Rabbinic scholars) also have the commandments in the New Testament.
"He obviously means that those firstborn sons have to be priests... " Actually... He doesn't. If you ever get to the book of Joshua, when they capture the virgin women of the Midianites (post genocide of men and non-virgin women), 32 of them are given to God (thousands are taken as wives for the soldiers), being listed among the cattle that were absolutely meant to be burnt offerings. Later on, God bans child sacrifice, but at some point he really didn't and that's because the Israelites' views on God changed over time. Also, scholars indicate that there were at least two gods being worshipped in the first 5 books of the Bible, but there were clear attempts at combining them by Israelite priests.
That’s interesting to hear as someone who grew up in Baptist Christian School, crazy to hear scholars think original authors indicated 2 Gods with later consolidation by priests. Where did you hear about that? Link it if possible?
@@Ichabod_Jericho th-cam.com/video/mo-YL-lv3RY/w-d-xo.html The patriarchs would have worshipped El (if they existed), and a council of gods, including his consort Ashera, Baal, Mott, Asher, etc etc. Yahweh was one of the minor gods. Genesis chapter 2 claims that Elohim was the creator of the universe. In chapter 1 the creator of the universe is Yahweh, who only came to the fore during the priests exile in Babylon around 500 BCE, when the priests re-wrote the old myths they wove both stories together. Most of the stories of the Old Testament were written to urge the worship of the new ‘higher’ god ‘above all others’, Yahweh.
@@curbroadshow this is blowing my mind lmao!! My teachers & pastors always conveniently passed over bits of info like these. Or they’re just as ignorant of history outside of the Bible as I am 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Remember when god told Abraham to sacrifice Issac? By some interpretations it was to show that god doesn't want human sacrifice. Apparently he forgot that he dislikes that.
I was a Catholic for about 25 years so OBVIOUSLY I never read the Bible but I love hearing you break it down. I can’t believe anyone can read this bullshit and still believe there’s a god 🙄🙄
If gods are to regulate every little thing down to the smalest detail in peoples lives, their books would be bigger than the earth. Yet some people believe this to be true?
This will take 100 years at this rate.. loving it and don't want it to end But could also maybe skip a few chapters.. especially repeats in the New Testament
Surely the Almighty God, the Creator of the universe didn’t write these minor rules. He must have delegated this responsibility to some assistant. Imagine God saying to the assistant, “Here, write these mundane rules and laws for these people. Make yourself useful, I already did the big stuff.”🤗
Because of the long-term cultural effects of traditional English translations of Christian bibles, a common misunderstanding developed regarding "kill" and "murder". Bronze age Hebrew clearly states that it is not only permitted to kill under certain circumstances, but mandatory, or even celebrated. What the masoretic text states is that "you shall not murder", at least when properly translated into modern English. This means that you shall not kill unlawfully. Lawful killing, as I'm sure everyone has noticed, is, at least in many circumstances, A-OK in bronze age semitic societies.
*Yahweh was introduced to Israel in a five-stage process:* *Traditional Polytheism:* The earliest Israelites worshipped creator god El, his wife Asherah, and his sons e.g., Baal. *Incorporation:* Yahweh was incorporated as a 2nd tier god in El’s pantheon. *Elevation:* Yahweh and El are identified as the same deity. *Monolatrism:* A new Yahweh-only movement emerges, and the gods of the second tier are denied. *Monotheism:* Gods of other nations are denied, Yahweh’s power is deemed universal in scope. *At some point in its history, El was identified with Yahweh as the same god.* This equation is expressed clearly in Exodus 6:2-3. “And God said to Moses, “I am Yahweh. I appeared to the patriarchs as El, but by my name Yahweh I did not make myself known to them.” Other Biblical material asserts this equation. Joshua 22:22 states “the god of gods is Yahweh”. Judges 9:46 refers to “El of the covenant”. *The Yahweh-alone movement vigorously condemn prominent Canaanite gods… except El. There are zero condemnations of El in the Hebrew Bible. This makes sense if Yahweh was ultimately identified with this Canaanite creator-god.* What’s more, archaeological evidence suggests that the Yahweh religious centers in Shiloh and Bethel were originally a place of El worship. *El and Yahweh are attributed same characteristics.* El is depicted as a wise old man with a beard eg “You are great, O El, and your hoary beard instructs you”. Yahweh is described in the same terms (Daniel 7:9, Job 36:26, Habakkuk 3:6). Like “Kind El, the Compassionate”, Yahweh is a “merciful and gracious god”. The description of Yahweh’s dwelling place as a tent (Psalms 15:1, 27:6, 91:10) recalls the tent of El in the Canaanite narrative of Elkunirsa. Finally, both Yahweh and El are said to dwell amidst cosmic waters (Isaiah 33:20-22, Ezekiel 47:1-12, Zechariah 14:8). *El’s wife was named Asherah. When Yahweh was identified with El, did he also inherit his wife?* In the blessings of Joseph, Genesis 49:25 contains language specific to the Asherah cult “blessings from Breast-and-Womb”. *The Bible further admits that the Israelites frequently worshipped a “Queen of Heaven”* (Jeremiah 7:18, 44:17-25). Indeed, 2 Kings 21:7 tells us that worship of Asherah happened within the Temple itself. *Finally, archaeology has uncovered several icons with the inscription “Yahweh and his Asherah”. This evidence cumulatively suggests that, in early forms of Israelite religion Yahweh was believed to have a wife.* The push towards monolatrism led to the eviction of the Asherah cult, whose memory may be preserved in Zechariah 5:5-11. But this eviction created a deficit of femininity to Israelite religious expression. *To compensate, the Biblical writers began attributing feminine attributes to Yahweh (Isaiah 49:15, 46:3, 44:2,24, 42:14).* *To induce the Israelites to stop worshipping Baal, the imagery of Baal was adopted by the Yahweh cult.* The Baal Cycle, ancient mythology on the scale of the Epic of Gilgameth, has four literary themes for the storm god. *Here are those themes, along with the Biblical text which mirrors them.* The march of the divine warrior (Psalm 104:3 “He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind”) The convulsions of nature as the divine warrior manifests his power (Judges 5:5, Hab 3:10) The return of the divine warrior to his holy mountain to assume divine kingship (Isaiah 31:4) The utterance of the divine warrior’s voice from his palace provides rains that fertilize the earth (Jeremiah 10:13) *Yahweh is also depicted as defeating Baal’s classic enemies:* Baal/Yahweh defeats a seven headed dragon, Leviathan, and River (CAT 5.1, Psalm 74:13-15). Baal/Yahweh defeats Sea (KTU 1.14, Psalm 89:10). Baal/Yahweh defeats Death/Mot (KTU 1.4 VIII-1.6, Isaiah 25:8). Polytheistic Roots of Israelite Religion | Fewer Lacunae kevinbinz.com/2018/07/21/polytheistic-roots-of-israelite-religion/
This is why so many “modern day Christians” disavow the book of Leviticus. They have become really great at cherry picking a book that they proclaim is 100% end to end. And yet many of them say the Old Testament is obsolete and disregard most of it. Cherry picked Christianity is so stranger.
I'm using this series to deprogram myself from about 35 years of religious brainwashing. Thank you SO much for doing this. Your pain is my gain.
God appearently didn't know these commands would be useless for future generations. This shows how omniscient he is.
Nothing is supposed to be impossible for the Bible God.He could have progressed Israel far into the future and many generations ahead of their time.He could have made all their babies prodigies and could have "enlightened" the leaders and the people with the wisdom to produce,not only a functional society,but a superlative one.
It's a mistranslation. It should be "omniscented".
@@freedapeeple4049 what do you mean? something related to scent ? never heard
Which commands are useless?
@@Quentin94 have you even watched the video? everything in it doesn't apply to modern society. Plus, “Do not allow a sorceress to live." wtf ?
"The entire Bible is like the terms and conditions that pop up when you install software. No one reads it, you just scroll down to the bottom and click 'I Agree'"
That is the best analogy for the buy-bull I've ever heard!
The Bible is like a software T&C that doesn't require you to scroll to the bottom before clicking 'I agree'.
Yeah,I like that one.
And the dammed software is buggy. We aren't even the beta version.
And it accepts no liability for any loss, injury or damage that may be incurred for using it because freewill and Satan.
For the vast majority, it's more like your parents clicked the "I Agree" for you.
Please never stop this series. It's the most fun I've ever had in bible studies
'We finally leave the donkey section...' And head to the virgin section. Wow... this is one weird department store!
@@harveywabbit9541 cancers are crabs
Exodus 22:18 Do not allow a sorceress to live … so sorcerers (m) are okay. Got it. They believed that sorcery exists, but the practice was forbidden only for women.
I have said it before, and I'll say it again that, "I love this series!"
You kill it every time!
Thank you!
Hemant kills it every time. But god goes into overtime to beat him. (PS - love the one on how many people did god kill post.)
Internet is a bit glitchy here, so apologies if I’m not on the live chat during the premiere!
Same.
Your content is just so great, thank you for everything you do 🥺
no problem.. its all good, sir. 😘
Could that explain why selecting 1080p in settings and the video still appears in 480p?
i.e. the upload went wrong?
edit: I'll try and rip the video via some downloader and see if it improves....
Further edit: nup, it's youtube sending some compressed-af version over, the downloaded/ripped version of this video worked fine ._.
Can you talk about islam or Hinduism. As you being an atheist
Damn, I've actually had one of these situations occur here on the ranch! A neighbor bought a young goat, but the people she bought it from lied and said it was weaned when it was only about a week old. I raise goats, and had babies and nursing dams, so I took it to bottle feed and raise for her until it could eat on it's own.
At 3 months, he was ready for her to take him back, but she was too busy to come get him. Then a "hunter" shot and took him for their BBQ. The third time one of my goats was stolen like that. Always happens during deer season.
Sounds like I would be responsible for that goat according to this chapter!
No good deed goes unpunished.
Can’t blame the hunter, goat meat slaps hard af 😂
Somebody mistook a goat for a deer????
@@francelaferriere6106 No. They knew it was a goat, they were just lazy. What's easier to shoot and kill, a friendly pet goat or a wild deer with self-preservation instincts that he would have to track down?
People suck.
@@LazyIRanch Yes, some people really do suck a lot.
It's good to hear god's word on Sunday. It gives me strenght to get me through the week.
Even better if you listen to each of this videos once a week!
How weak you have to be, to be listening to nonsense tales and to think it will give you strength to get through the week. You should be stone for being the weak😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂
What if the fire is caused by lightning, i.e. an Act of God? Is he going to pay for the property damage? Or is he going to ignore his own rules? Wait, I think I already know the answer to that one.
@@harveywabbit9541 "I am" the jealous god.
Finally... the tutorial on goat and sheep law I've been waiting for! 😂
Holy shit, the whole "donkey monopoly" plan absolutely killed me. 😂😂😂 These bible studies somehow keep getting better. I'll keep watching all they way to the end of Revelations if both of us make it.
omg me too bahahaha!
If religious zealots insist on putting a monument bearing the Ten Commandments, in public spaces, then atheists should put one up next to it with the Old Testament commandment where a pregnant woman suspected of adultery can be dragged before a priest so he can lay a curse on her which will cause her to miscarry if the baby is not her husband's. (Numbers 5:11)
That rule actually said that a woman won't be able to bear children if she cheated on her husband (and maybe even will be able if she didn't cheat on him). But the bible never talks about what happens if the woman is pregnant, so we must assume by default that the same applies to them, something that will cause a miscarriage.
In this area of the bible, can't remember where, is where God had his priests perform abortion with his concoctions. So many Christians don't realize God had his own version of Planned Parenthood. Only God punishes and blames women, instead of helping them.
Or how about the one that says if a woman is found not to be virgin on her wedding night,she will be stoned to death in front of her father's house? Or the one that says that if a priest's daughter defiles herself by promiscuity,she must be burned to death.Then tell the children that God is love.
@@Quvan I believe that is the same scripture. There was something in there about bitter waters.
@@idaniluz652 There is some idea of science in this , depending on the likes of the spread of HPAP which can cause infertility so you can see that the observation can be backward linked to the occurrence. There are (and I dont say they are caused by God as any Punishment,) the spread of viruses and bacteria by contact and close relationships.
The rule about not charging interest in loans was taken seriously by the church but that was only between Christians, so they turned to the very people who made that rule when they need a loan.
"Hands are handy because they're handed with handiness."
---Albert Einstein
Fact checkers say..."Correct!"
Wasn't Einstein Jewish?
@@beverlybarnes3122 not in a religious sense. Einstein more than once expressed his disdain for the Abrahamic god.
"What are you? An Indian mother?" 🤣 This joke got me! Plus I like how only you can say it
“And that is how people become Christian”
Pretty sure I had more of a “my parents downloaded this virus protection software, didn’t read the terms and conditions, then gave this computer to me with a software that acted more like malware itself.” situation.
I didn't know how the bible can get any better after Exodus 21. I'm glad to be wrong
This is soooo much better than Sunday school or Bible studies with the pastor. I always thought the rules were too picayune. Most lessons stop at the big 10 and pick up in Leviticus.
Guys, I talked to Hamant, after he read us the 10 commandments and we concluded. Since the Lord said we must work for six days and on the seventh day we must rest. But Hamant has been resting for six days and work on the seventh day by reading us one chapter. So he said, this week will be different, we might be having a couple of episodes in a week...
I know how u all feel, u can thank me later😆😆
I will defiantly thank you if this is a true prophecy, but in the meantime, you can lean to spell our Friendly Atheist’s name correctly:
Hemant Mehta …. “HE MAN T” makes it every easy to remember! Cheers, peace & love, Kenny from Philly
Noted. He Man makes a lot of sense. Especially that it has always been my favorite cartoon
Well I suppose all teachers they spend six days reading , one day explaining.
@@sengembale1722 No worries! Thank you & congratulations on your very accurate prophecy! I was delighted to see an additional video from Hemant,, our friendly neighborhood Atheist! Cheers, Kenny from Philly
I wonder what insane idea God has for his people this time🤔 Something tells me it involves jealous rage followed by death😂
Ya know, I'm starting to see a recurring theme in this book...
For a "holy book" the Bible is really inconsistent😂
Always a good bet when dealing with the Hebrew War God, his Zombie son or Prophet....
Jesus seems to fit the criteria for a Lich in my opinion😂 It would explain the obsession with souls🤔
@@dragowolfraven3806 I had to look up, ""Lich", since I'm old and not a gamer. Oh, yeah! Mr. Jeebus most definitely fits that definition.
I look forward to this every Sunday
Same
me too
Better than church🙄
First time I've ever looked forward to a scripture reading.
@@AngryBilleh ... well.. not better than when I went to church. Parents made us 3 boys go every Sunday. We’d sit in our van in the church parking lot toking down and laughing for an hour and then go back home.
I🤩😍Hemant. I could listen to him read the Bible day and night.. especially at night. I snuggle up in bed and hit play. best bedtime stories ever. so hilarious how Hemant tells it, calling out the bs. ❤
Hemant is definitely in my top three favorite TH-camrs. Actually, he and Beau of the Fifth Column tie for first place for my favorite, because they've both taught me so much!
@@LazyIRanch me too! I've learned so much from Beau this past year!
More rules from the priestly lawyers for the benefit of their club and the rulers.
"Do not allow a sorceress to live" I sometimes wonder if by sorcery they just meant science.
Think about it! In a lot of ancient cultures they are one in the same (eg think about alchemy and witch doctors). And even now science would look like magic to ancient people
So is the law somewhat saying dont allow educated women to live?
Far fetched I know but its just a thought :3!
I want to show you something that the Bible is NOT a religious book. It is written for the children of Israel NOT everyone on earth ( NOT ALL PEOPLE)! The Bible has NOTHING TO DO WITH CHRISTIANITY! Remember everyone on earth has a culture! This is NO DIFFERENT! Do you realize WE so called black people are the people in this book!
I would like to bring out something else’s! The so called African American MAN has never oppressed BLACK WOMEN! And nether did the ISRAELITE MAN ( OUR PEOPLE) our true nationality!
@@shaul558 If you're going to own the Hebrew Bible(Old Testament) you have own up to all of the oppression of women written throughout the pages of the "Scriptures". If you were to be intellectually honest, you would have to see that women were only seen as property. Does that remind you of anything?
@@todradmaker4297 That is absolutely NOT TRUE. We Hebrew didn’t treat our women like trash. That was the GENTILE man! Our woman were taken care of ….Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,… have you read Susanna? Or Judith? Did you know the comforter ( HOLY SPIRIT) is Female ( WISDOM) ? Again who take scroll ( BOOKS ) out of the Bible and change words?? You already know 👉🏿🧔🏼♂️👱🏻♀️
I found this channel last week.... needless to say I'm done with genesis and am anxiously awaiting the rest of exodus. Also watching all the other videos on the channel and I think the TH-cam algorithmed me into one of his other channels too. I really enjoy all of it.
U welcome to the Sunday Bible story telling... Let's hope u won't develop BP coz the Lord hardens Hemant's heart so that he can only read us one chapter ever after seven days,
@@sengembale1722 😅
Same! I've been binging this series since I found it about a week ago :D
Why would God even care about all of this? It’s almost like these are rules made up by men pretending to have heard from God. 🤔
You think?
@@harveywabbit9541 He can, but His voice would make us go deaf.
@@visaman I wonder what the point is, then...🤨
@francelaferriere6106 I wrote that 2 years ago and I don't remember the point I was making either.
@@visaman If God's voice would make us go deaf, what's the point of a God? Deaf or not, we can't hear him anyway.
Ur donkey scheme monopoly has me laughing so hard right now 🤣 I needed that today lol
remember two chapters ago, when god said "thou shalt not kill"? apparently neither god.
Man how come I've never read this whole book? The Bible is a goldmine 😂.
I couldn’t make it past Genesis.. all wrong. So why bother going further. Thankfully Hemant makes it funny.
Like don't cook a baby goat in its mother's milk. Like we run the risk of breaking that commandment everyday.
according to this verse, a cheeseburger is fine because it's a cow (or baby cow) that was fried, and then on top of it a (probably not from it's mother's) milk product.
Those rules were made by goat herders as guidelines for other goat herders. I'm sure they'll come in handy just in case any of us decide to take up goat herding, someday.
@@collingalanos1783 the Bible is just the Goatherder’s Guide to the Universe
The Bible was written by and for,a bunch of ignorant,uneducated,pre-science,superstitious,and ancient/primitive,and brutal/barbarian men,that didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground and did a piss poor job in trying to describe things they didn't understand.It should have never been passed down to modern society.It is completely irrelevant.
@@collingalanos1783 There are 37 million goats in North America alone. Texas alone makes up 38% of production in the US. The human population of Canada is 37 million.
Thank you for your content. Just found your channel and really enjoy listening. It is refreshing to find an arena that shares my views. Keep up the great work!
Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.
- Exodus 22:28
Excellent! There’s one to throw in the faces of those Bible bashing Biden critics.
A friend of mine once told me that "sorceress" or "witch" were mistranslations & the actual word is more accurately "poisoner", as in one who poisons wells.
How about when they were in Egypt and the magicians were able to perform some miracles. "But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt." Exodus 8:7 / I guess it was correctly translated given the previous context
I have a bible that is written in Hebrew, and it clearly says, no doubt, a witch.
@@idaniluz652 Thank you for the information!
@@adrianolouback1550 Is it the same word in the original? I only have a translated Bible & don't know Hebrew at all.
@@AccidentalNinja just out of curiosity I found the hebrew version of the bible and the word is: מְכַשֵּׁפָה / dictionary says - witch / sorceress. No other way... Source www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0222.htm
I have read the bible, cover to cover, twice in my life. I've made it a point not to remember chapter and verses as most Christians do, and just take in what is actually in the Bible. It is a huge book with many confusing story lines. It is easy to get confused in what it actually says and what God wants you to do between the lines. Accept button very relevant here. I love what you are doing and it is a refresher course for me. Especially when you hear many different Christians tell you their own bastardized versions of what the Bible tells you. I don't know if you realize how important what you are doing is, well, important. Maybe someday it will be realized and recognized.
Oh, btw, multiple chapter per week please. I know, I have this dead donkey in the closet and I am not afraid to reuse it.
Edited for typo.
Thou shalt not kill . . . unless god changes his mind. Then it's not only fine, but he commands you to kill. And god changes his mind a LOT, so you can never really tell what mundane offense might get you killed.
Jesus speaking: "I will kill her children."(Rev.2:23)
It's actually pretty predictable. Just about anything you could do or fail to do will get you killed somewhere in the bible. Or, maybe one of your distant ancestors did or didn't do it. It's the world's most deranged Faerie Tale book!
@@KeriRautenkranz I think you've got something there!
I would totally be on board with schools putting up all the useless and pointless rules from the Bible if that's what fundamentalists want. It would at least get the kids talking about the Bible, even if it is because they would know for sure that it's gibberish.
They do not want biblical law, they want what they say is biblical law.
Schools are too busy promoting athiest and their degenerate agendas to worry about what the bibble actually teaches
So, at 4:00, when something is stolen from the neighbour, then it is quite different of something being taken away from the same neighbour while no one was looking. Crazy writers... psychopaths!
One thing, the firstborn sons didn't become priests unless they were Levites so I don't know what it means to give them to the Lord but all the other times Israelites gave things to the Lord, it was on an altar. What else can you do with an eight-day-old baby?
"Do the same with the cattle and sheep, let them stay with their mothers for seven days", it is clearly saying that the boys are taken after seven days so unless they invented the baby bottle, they would never make it to week two.
I can think of no way, except your huge assumption, that these babies became priests and I can think of no reasonable way to explain these verses, you said "we know what God does to first-born sons" and we should remember what we know.
According to exodus 13:13, they are to be redeemed.
You're right: the levites were the priests. (The sons of aaron according to the p source. The levites according to other sources.) There were a few non-levite exceptions like melchizedek and samuel.
P.s. samuel was a levite according to chronicles, but an ephraimite according to samuel.
Don’t know about ancient Israelites but in ancient Arabia it was common to give your babies away for some weeks to years to another woman who would suckle them (it was also believed that these children would become „milk siblings“ just like „regular“ siblings). This was widely practiced, probably more by the better-offs of society. Could be the case here too maybe? Dunno.
Anything that you completely dedicate to me *must be completely destroyed,*it cannot be bought back or sold.Every *person* animal and piece of property that you dedicate completely is only for me.In fact,any *humans* who have been promised to me in this way- *"must be put to death."*-(Lev.27:28-29)
I think it is a contrast, normally ((say in Britain), the old joke was first born - inherits the family estate, second born - goes into politics, third -born goes into the military and the fourth the church ! Overall first born idea is they get the inheritence of God, not that of man, which is an honour and a blessing - and its argueably a proprecy about Jesus as the first born being for the service of God,
Thanks for your chapter by chapter reading of the Bible! I’m currently reading the Bible and watch your videos after reading the chapter. I’m already in Leviticus now so more videos per week please :) maybe on patreon to pay for your time away from your family? I’m willing to pay for that service.
"Do not allow a sorceress to live." Well, no bibbity boppity boo for you Cinderella. No click your heels three times for you Dorothy.
You forgot emails.
As a pagan you have no idea how much Exodus 22:20 scares me living in the bible belt where fuckers have been a bit ....crazy...
And none of them have actually read their bibles! They balance their brain-dead "faith" on just a few cherry-picked verses and the opinions of their favorite con artist, oops! cleric. A good idea to understand their vile bible better than they do.
Hey, this series is really helping me. I mean really helping. Thank you.
If you haven't already, you need to make a video on every rule the bible makes, including all those weirdly specific ones.
hey man thanks for the fathers day gift.
1. 613 mini commandments, actually, which is still a lot, but remember that this was pretty much all ripped right from the Hammurabi Code. These are laws based on equivalency for the most part, except when it comes to cattle, because those were fairly rare in the area and were considered signs of status. Even as far east as a, why do you think cattle are sacred to the Hindus? The Indo-Aryans brought them into India for trade, profit, and food, and it became huge part of the culture, so sacred status was eventually granted. Same with the whole golden calf situation.
2. Snort, oh, THAT'S kind. So if you're poor and you steal to eat, you get to be slave if you're caught! Lovely. And, like, I've studied this shit in university, but I forgot how specific it got.
3. Jew, Hemant. You'd make a good Jew. Most Christians don't follow all of these. My brother (TMI, but still) didn't even get the...uhh...snippity-snip. Lucky him. XD
4. "Sorceress" has a rather broad definition, unfortunately. Even herbalists and healers could be considered magical, because even when their remedies DID work, the people didn't understand the science of why, yet, so you get a "magic of the gaps" kind of situation here. Like "God of the gaps", only even more mundane.
5. Remember what I told you about the VERY early Jews being henotheistic? Basically, that means that they recognised the existence of multiple gods, namely of those belonging to the empire ruling over the Jewish people at any given time, but the Jews were only actually permitted to WORSHIP Yahweh. They could still say of the other gods, "They exist," but they couldn't worship them after these laws were written. Again, it's the golden calf thing, because the calf or the bull was seen often in Canaan and surrounding areas as either a god or the mount of a god. Even as far east as, again, India, you see Lord Shiva mounted on Nandi the bull. Cattle imagery was VERY widespread in the ancient world, all the way from Greece to India. Look at he map: that's f*cking far.
6. Snort, gotta love that, in both Judaism and Islam, it's considered a religious crime to charge interest, and yet, for Christians...well...the housing crisis being what it is...ugh. That is one law I wish they would take more seriously.
7. Up until kind of recently, at least with Catholicism (I was unfortunately raised Catholic), it WS a tradition that the firstborn son and daughter of a family would join religious orders. Why? Because the church wanted their inheritance money. I shit you not: it was traditional to pass on the rule of the estate to the eldest, right, but then, if the eldest joined the church, all of his property would go to the church instead of being maintained on the family's land. And don't kid yourself: this still went on LONG after the Protestant Reformation put an end to indulgences. They still got their money, just in a different way.
I've always heard that in the Middle Ages, the second son usually joined the priesthood, precisely because the first son inherited the family estate.
I've been waiting so long.. finally!
Most logical yet entertaining analysis of the Bible! Eager to see new videos from you every week!👍💯
Thank you for your weekly postings, but I think you should do at least a couple of chapters a week.
who's your daddy is a first date question... i literally pissed myself.
🤣😂 Great commentary again, Hemant! 👍💛
The exchange rate of sheep is definitely an underrated Biblical law 😁
In Uganda the pastors only talk about the tithe and predictions about corrupt leaders but never about the lockdown.. they didn’t predict that
God probably is on holy-day getting his wings massaged ... that’s why non predicted the covid 19 pandemic 🙄🤦🏽♀️.
Thanks Herman for these episodes 😘
lol love my weekly Bible study, now I know to keep a donkey carcass on hand
Donkey monopoly strategy - Brilliant!
*The Israelite people were indigenous Canaanites.*
So where did the Israelite people come from? *The Israelite people were originally Canaanite pastoralists who, in 1300 BCE. changed their economic strategy in response to worsening conditions.* There is substantial evidence for this hypothesis.
*Linguistic:* Hebrew and Canaanite language are increasingly indistinguishable the further back you go in the Iron Age.
*Material culture:* Israelite and Canaanites shared the same building plans, pottery designs, village layouts, cooking habits …
*In Canaan, the chief god was El. El’s wife was Asherah, and his sons include Ba’al and Anut. The Canaanite pantheon is well-understood from the discovery of the Ugaritic texts.*
In most English translations of the Hebrew Bible, you will see frequent use of the words “God” and “Lord”. The Hebrew terms for these phrases are more literally translated “El” and “Yahweh”. They are used so interchangeably in the Hebrew Bible that you would think them synonyms.
*Names: The very name “Israel” means “house of El”. In contrast, later Israelite names have “Yahweh”-based suffixes e.g., Jehu. Further, most Israelite cities were named after the gods in El’s assembly.*
The god Anat was honored in the city of Anathoth, the place of origin of the prophet Jeremiah.
The god Dagan in Beth-Dagan.
The god El in Beth-El.
The god Shamash in Beth-Shamash.
The god Shalimu in Jerusalem.
*Ritual systems:* The priestly system laid out in Leviticus is very nearly copy-and-pasted from the Ugaritic sacrificial system.
*Legal codes:* The Covenant, Holiness, and Deuteronomic law codes share strong parallels with surrounding Canaanite legal systems.
*Iconography:* A seal found in Jerusalem in a tomb of the seventh century shows a solar god flanked by two minor gods: “Righteousness” and “Justice”
*There are also expressions of polytheism throughout the Hebrew Bible. For example,*
“Do you not possess that which Chemosh, your god, has given you? So shall we possess what Yahweh has given us.” Judges 11:24
“Who is like Yahweh among the gods?” Exodus 15:11
“The people of Judah have as many gods as they have towns.” Jeremiah 11:13
*Yahweh was introduced to Israel as a second tier deity (a member of El’s family)*
*This can be seen in Deuteronomy 32:8-9, where El gives each of his sons a nation to rule over:*
*When El gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of El. For Yahweh’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.*
*In Psalm 82, we see Yahweh not at the head of the pantheon, but later asked to assume the job of all gods. “Yahweh stands in the divine assembly of El. Among the divinities, he pronounces judgment… Arise O Yahweh, judge the world; for You inherit all the nations.” Genesis 49:24-25 and Numbers 23-24 also view YHWH and El existing as distinct deities.*
We have seen how Yahweh was first worshiped in Midian, and not Israel. Concurrently, El was worshiped in the land of Israel.
*Then, when Yahwism emigrated to Israel (incorporation), Yahweh was not recognized as a god of gods. Rather, Yahweh was elevated to this position (equated with El) as the nation of Judah transitioned towards statehood.*
*In summary:*
The Israelite origin story is largely a patriotic fiction.
The Israelite people were indigenous Canaanites.
The first Israelites worshiped the pantheon of El.
The original Yahweh cult was a Shasu religion located in southern Edom
Yahweh was first worshiped as a god of metallurgy
The founder of Judaism, Moses, was said to be a Midianite
Yahweh was introduced to Israel as a second tier deity (a member of El’s family)
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Cool, I love bible studies from F.A.
Hey, thanks for reading my book. I must say, you do a better commentary than those friends of my son, but you must stay away from his cousins!!! Shit could get dangerous
If a man sleeps with a donkey or a cow, he should pay the bride price to the father donkey or father cow and take the animal for his wife.
Ezekiel 23: 20- There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
Biblical porn- 2,000 years old and still some of the best.
But if a female have sexual intercourse with an animal, it's for a party.
And if a man rapes a donkey in the marketplace and the donkey doesn't scream loud enough the man can take her as his bride .lol
That's what I would've enforced:-D
This channel literally answer my wondering about if bible is just like other mythological stories. I remember when I was in seventh grade, I ask myself if what written in the bible was real or just a product of creative mind and just also like other mythology.
Mormons, Jehovas Witnesses, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Christians & Scientologists all hold a “holy book” & Faith; but no evidence.
The only time a religion becomes true is when someone provides evidence a God exists. Then they have to prove it’s THEIR god.
What if lie with a virgin sorceress, do I get to keep her? Or will she still be put to death?
Donkey Kong. That's what this channel should be called. Lol
Exodus 22: God's tutorial on livestock law related to cattle, sheep, goats, and women.
The witch hunt part.... all of a sudden, it's Final Fantasy 8!
As a child I believed that the Bible was the word of God and that Jesus was my savior .In 1988 I had a wonderful girlfriend , we raced motorcycles , we went to bluegrass festivals and did whatever we wanted to do . I realized that I had everything the world said was happiness but I felt something important was missing and I didn't know what it was. I tried scientology , all kinds of yoga, martial arts and various other disciplines but nothing satisfied me . One Sunday morning I came home drunk in a taxicab and waiting outside of my house was a man who was giving my roommate a ride to church. I had gone to alcoholics anonymous for six months and they helped me a lot but I had gone back to drinking .He invited me to sit in his car and talk. He asked me if I wanted a bible study. I said I would love to have a bible study . He came on Monday nights the only night of the week that I didn't drink. It was a 12 week bible study that went from Genesis to Revelation. He showed me in the book of Acts ( Acts 2:38 ) where it said repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost . I said I'd never seen that in the bible and I wanted to get baptized in Jesus' name and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. I got baptized in Jesus' name and prayed for two months to get the Holy Ghost. The night that I got the Holy Ghost I was praying and I started to talk in tongues , I felt wonderful and GOD delivered me from the spirit of alcohol . I have never wanted to drink since then and I praise GOD for that.
. The man who gave me the twelve week bible study taught me a ' GODHEAD ' bible study twice but i didn't understand the oneness of God or the trinity . I was reading the bible one day and read Ephesians 4 : 5-6 that i had previously highlighted in my bible . God gave me the revelation of oneness . ' ONE LORD , ONE FAITH , ONE BAPTISM , ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL , WHO IS ABOVE ALL , AND THROUGH ALL ,AND IN YOU ALL !
JOHN 3:16 IS JUST ONE VERSE : YOU NEED TO READ ALL OF CHAPTER THREE TO UNDERSTAND JESUS' PLAN OF SALVATION !
I was a believer from childhood but I wasn't saved .
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS !
Im glad you got save brother. I been addicted to drugs and firnication for over 20 yeah. I use to go to church as a kid but never really understood. Thru my life i have done so much harm to my spirit. I been to hell and back literally. But a few years back i started reading the bible and praying to god. It has take me a while but i finally undestand. My life finally feels like it makes sence. I make me sad to see many ppl talk blasphemy about the good word. It shows that not everyone will be save. People dont understand that is a special place in hell for nonbeliever that talk blasphemy about good and his lesson. I still believe that this guy can be save i pray in Jesus name that he can be deliver from this nonsence. Before its too late
With the feeding of ravaged animals to dogs, brings a whole new meaning to "Who let the dogs out? Who, who?"
And in the terms and conditions analogy, is there a arbitration rule preventing the litigation of a dispute? At least in the terms and conditions of a software product, the company or entity "licensing" the software has the good sense to claim that their product is not free of defects or is defect free.
At 1am... I won't be watching live
We defiantly need more information about these so called judges. What happened to “judge not lest thee be judged?
I dont think giving your 1st born to god means to make them priests. The following verse said do the same with your cattle and sheep which was killed as sacrifices not make the animals priests
I choose to believe that the majority of Ancient Jewish priests were actually just very confused livestock that were trained to circumcise human babies.
I think when many Christians read in the Bible that God kills sorcerers and condemns sorcery,that these sorcerers didn't really have magic,they were just pretending to.Even though Pharaoh's sorcerers did some pretty cool stuff with their magic and gave Moses a run for his magic.I know that some believers will say, "That's the old testament"-but I want to know where did those sorcerers go after all these years? Bottom line? The God of the Bible thought sorcery was a real thing.As well as fortune telling and necromancy and curses.
Magic clearly works in the Bible Universe, so those sorcerers were totally legit. Where did they go? They're in hiding and preparing the second coming of Trump.
and other gods. Unless I am mistaken the bible says to worship the god of the Israelistes over all others, it doesn't say the Israelite god is the only one.
@@freedapeeple4049 How could a God be jealous of gods that don't exist? And what's an omniscient being doing having human emotions or reacting to anything? He acts as though he can't see things coming.Hmmm?
@@dwaneanderson8039 Ha,ha!
@@shriggs55 Wtf are you talking about? None of that has anything to do with my reply to the post, or to the thread at all as far as I can tell.
I so hope there will be a series on revelations coming up!!!
You can tell that nobody teaches this part in church.
The churches need to ask Atheists to teach bible class. No, wait, Atheists must demand and get equal pulpit time!
I like the inference " the bible of terms & conditions ".
Isnt a Sorceress born with her abilites? Or is that just in DnD? cause killing people for how they are born... as a disabled german i dont like that.
In midivel europe people believed that you become a sorceress by selling your soul to the devil
Eh, maybe sometimes? You can also determine which version of the bible he is reading from by that line as different versions have different words there. Sometimes it is necromancer, sometimes warlock, sometimes something else.
"What are you? An Indian mother?" PMSL
As a South African with many Indian friends, this killed me x'D
As Paul said: (I'm paraphrasing) the laws of the Old Testament were "as a schoolmaster"; they prepared people for further knowledge. That phase of schooling was completed when Christ came and changed the syllabus. Because he fulfilled all the requirements of the old Laws, all commandments from His time onwards boil down to 2 instructions: Love God, and love thy neighbour as thyself. Atheists, and many so-called Christians, misunderstand this completely, and Jews are even more misguided.
Damn I binged the Bible since last week and now I'm all caught up and have to wait til Sunday.
"The exchange rate for stolen sheep" LMFAO
Once my pastor used this passage as a justification for his theory that if you failed to tithe a month the following month you would have to pay the equivalent of 4 tithes
(noun) Re•pub•li•can- a person who claims to believe every word of the bible. But has never read the entire bible.
(noun) A-the-ist- a person who has read the entire bible. But has not become a Charlatan, oops, Clergy.
The Biblical principle around night time offences being punished more vigorously was enshrined in UK law until the late 1960's under the various Felony Acts.
In verses 10 to 13 it appears to contain a contradiction. In the first part it says that if the animal is "taken away while no one is looking", no restitution is needed. But doesn't it characterize a theft which needs a restitution? If someone intends to stole the animal the last thing they want is to be caught. So, what is the difference? It is only theft if the robber is caught?
According to the count kept by Rabbinic Judaism (the dominant Jewish religion) there are 613 commandments total. And this is just from the Hebrew Scriptures included in the Masoretic Text - as Rabbinic Judaism considers that to be the entire Bible. I am sure that if you also include the New Testament or the books included only in the Septuagint there will be more.
Great! so we can petition to put the remaining 603 on display as well!
@@KeriRautenkranz - It is more than just 603 additional ones - because the ones putting up these monuments overwhelmingly tend to be Evangelical Christians, who (unlike the Rabbinic scholars) also have the commandments in the New Testament.
I love this series by the way but you should post a video a day.....
Mr. Hemant, I want to hear your take on Immaculate Conception. You the Man.
"He obviously means that those firstborn sons have to be priests... "
Actually... He doesn't. If you ever get to the book of Joshua, when they capture the virgin women of the Midianites (post genocide of men and non-virgin women), 32 of them are given to God (thousands are taken as wives for the soldiers), being listed among the cattle that were absolutely meant to be burnt offerings.
Later on, God bans child sacrifice, but at some point he really didn't and that's because the Israelites' views on God changed over time. Also, scholars indicate that there were at least two gods being worshipped in the first 5 books of the Bible, but there were clear attempts at combining them by Israelite priests.
That’s interesting to hear as someone who grew up in Baptist Christian School, crazy to hear scholars think original authors indicated 2 Gods with later consolidation by priests. Where did you hear about that? Link it if possible?
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The patriarchs would have worshipped El (if they existed), and a council of gods, including his consort Ashera, Baal, Mott, Asher, etc etc. Yahweh was one of the minor gods. Genesis chapter 2 claims that Elohim was the creator of the universe. In chapter 1 the creator of the universe is Yahweh, who only came to the fore during the priests exile in Babylon around 500 BCE, when the priests re-wrote the old myths they wove both stories together. Most of the stories of the Old Testament were written to urge the worship of the new ‘higher’ god ‘above all others’, Yahweh.
@@curbroadshow this is blowing my mind lmao!! My teachers & pastors always conveniently passed over bits of info like these. Or they’re just as ignorant of history outside of the Bible as I am 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Remember when god told Abraham to sacrifice Issac? By some interpretations it was to show that god doesn't want human sacrifice. Apparently he forgot that he dislikes that.
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Probably a bit of both. They don’t advertise it for obvious reasons.
I was a Catholic for about 25 years so OBVIOUSLY I never read the Bible but I love hearing you break it down. I can’t believe anyone can read this bullshit and still believe there’s a god 🙄🙄
07:14 :- ) good
hearing of sheep and sorceresses, the spell "polymorph" also comes to mind
If gods are to regulate every little thing down to the smalest detail in peoples lives, their books would be bigger than the earth. Yet some people believe this to be true?
This will take 100 years at this rate.. loving it and don't want it to end
But could also maybe skip a few chapters.. especially repeats in the New Testament
The bible is full of vague confusing metaphors and abstract writings except when the reimbursement of money or restitution is talked about.
I agree they should add all.
reminder on.
Surely the Almighty God, the Creator of the universe didn’t write these minor rules. He must have delegated this responsibility to some assistant. Imagine God saying to the assistant, “Here, write these mundane rules and laws for these people. Make yourself useful, I already did the big stuff.”🤗
Because of the long-term cultural effects of traditional English translations of Christian bibles, a common misunderstanding developed regarding "kill" and "murder". Bronze age Hebrew clearly states that it is not only permitted to kill under certain circumstances, but mandatory, or even celebrated. What the masoretic text states is that "you shall not murder", at least when properly translated into modern English. This means that you shall not kill unlawfully. Lawful killing, as I'm sure everyone has noticed, is, at least in many circumstances, A-OK in bronze age semitic societies.
looking forward to the next book!
This whole chapter is a good example of how we as a society, have created laws that go against what the bible says.
*Yahweh was introduced to Israel in a five-stage process:*
*Traditional Polytheism:* The earliest Israelites worshipped creator god El, his wife Asherah, and his sons e.g., Baal.
*Incorporation:* Yahweh was incorporated as a 2nd tier god in El’s pantheon.
*Elevation:* Yahweh and El are identified as the same deity.
*Monolatrism:* A new Yahweh-only movement emerges, and the gods of the second tier are denied.
*Monotheism:* Gods of other nations are denied, Yahweh’s power is deemed universal in scope.
*At some point in its history, El was identified with Yahweh as the same god.*
This equation is expressed clearly in Exodus 6:2-3. “And God said to Moses, “I am Yahweh. I appeared to the patriarchs as El, but by my name Yahweh I did not make myself known to them.” Other Biblical material asserts this equation. Joshua 22:22 states “the god of gods is Yahweh”. Judges 9:46 refers to “El of the covenant”.
*The Yahweh-alone movement vigorously condemn prominent Canaanite gods… except El. There are zero condemnations of El in the Hebrew Bible. This makes sense if Yahweh was ultimately identified with this Canaanite creator-god.* What’s more, archaeological evidence suggests that the Yahweh religious centers in Shiloh and Bethel were originally a place of El worship.
*El and Yahweh are attributed same characteristics.* El is depicted as a wise old man with a beard eg “You are great, O El, and your hoary beard instructs you”. Yahweh is described in the same terms (Daniel 7:9, Job 36:26, Habakkuk 3:6). Like “Kind El, the Compassionate”, Yahweh is a “merciful and gracious god”. The description of Yahweh’s dwelling place as a tent (Psalms 15:1, 27:6, 91:10) recalls the tent of El in the Canaanite narrative of Elkunirsa. Finally, both Yahweh and El are said to dwell amidst cosmic waters (Isaiah 33:20-22, Ezekiel 47:1-12, Zechariah 14:8).
*El’s wife was named Asherah. When Yahweh was identified with El, did he also inherit his wife?* In the blessings of Joseph, Genesis 49:25 contains language specific to the Asherah cult “blessings from Breast-and-Womb”. *The Bible further admits that the Israelites frequently worshipped a “Queen of Heaven”* (Jeremiah 7:18, 44:17-25). Indeed, 2 Kings 21:7 tells us that worship of Asherah happened within the Temple itself. *Finally, archaeology has uncovered several icons with the inscription “Yahweh and his Asherah”. This evidence cumulatively suggests that, in early forms of Israelite religion Yahweh was believed to have a wife.*
The push towards monolatrism led to the eviction of the Asherah cult, whose memory may be preserved in Zechariah 5:5-11. But this eviction created a deficit of femininity to Israelite religious expression. *To compensate, the Biblical writers began attributing feminine attributes to Yahweh (Isaiah 49:15, 46:3, 44:2,24, 42:14).*
*To induce the Israelites to stop worshipping Baal, the imagery of Baal was adopted by the Yahweh cult.* The Baal Cycle, ancient mythology on the scale of the Epic of Gilgameth, has four literary themes for the storm god. *Here are those themes, along with the Biblical text which mirrors them.*
The march of the divine warrior (Psalm 104:3 “He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind”)
The convulsions of nature as the divine warrior manifests his power (Judges 5:5, Hab 3:10)
The return of the divine warrior to his holy mountain to assume divine kingship (Isaiah 31:4)
The utterance of the divine warrior’s voice from his palace provides rains that fertilize the earth (Jeremiah 10:13)
*Yahweh is also depicted as defeating Baal’s classic enemies:*
Baal/Yahweh defeats a seven headed dragon, Leviathan, and River (CAT 5.1, Psalm 74:13-15).
Baal/Yahweh defeats Sea (KTU 1.14, Psalm 89:10).
Baal/Yahweh defeats Death/Mot (KTU 1.4 VIII-1.6, Isaiah 25:8).
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This is why so many “modern day Christians” disavow the book of Leviticus. They have become really great at cherry picking a book that they proclaim is 100% end to end. And yet many of them say the Old Testament is obsolete and disregard most of it. Cherry picked Christianity is so stranger.