I always think about this stuff when I hear people (American Evangelicals, mostly) say that every word of the Bible is literally true. Like... ok but which version each story? Why wouldn’t you acknowledge that fallible humans wrote the stuff down sometimes? It’s just so obvious if you look at the text...
Divine inspiration. Humans may not be perfect but the Bible still largely makes sense. Yahweh knows that humans are sinful, and that we are prone to error. But it's remarkable how well Yahweh's word has been preserved over so many generations and thousands of years, through oral and textual traditions.
I think the Bible has both spiritual and physical meanings behind its words, it's just in riddles because of one how many times it's been translated and two because of the fact the authors tried to hide a few things and that's been proven
As a religious person, I read the bible more for the meanings of the stories. There's definitely hyperbole and edits because of political reasons throughout history, but you can get the basics of what is intended if you are able to separate bits. It's impossible to tell which book is most accurate, but my assumption would be the Torah is the most accurate of the "old testament." It's frustrating when Americans or the English burn the world down to claim Christianity is more right than Judaism, or Islam is more correct than Christianity etc, cause it's all interrelated in some way shape or form lmao.
In a way everything is true. It was written by people trying to survive in a society of psychotic idiots just like we are today. There are definitely lessons and warnings to be learned from every religion. Like just be good to people and don’t be an a hole.
This is one of the clearest, most concise and most precise presentations of the documentary hypothesis with which I am familiar. Much better than the graduate - level scripture courses I've taken. Good work. Good teaching!
All Denominations, I tell you the Truth. Satan hated all our Father’s Creations & in particular, Us, so he came for me knowing if I lost the faith we were all gone, written in the Covenant of the Ark our Father gave us of which all left outside the Ark regret. When our Father presents me with something it usually means it’s for us all as it is with our Coat of Many Colours which sometimes you can see when the sun shines through the rain & a beautiful sight it is. When the Creator Isaac gave my Birth Right to Satan-Jacob later called Israel He gave him dominion over all on my Footstool & out of the flesh he slithered from one to another recruiting those that Stumbled & took much pleasure rearranging our scriptures. For thousands of years people have been born into Satanic madness which over time has intensified. All deceived, some desiring, relishing sin. I am Aaron of Judah, High Priest under our Father, guardian of the Ark & Judah is our Father’s Law. I am Moses, there were no stones to smash, it simply means the Law was broken. Our Father’s Law is engraved in the Rock of Ages, my soul & it was always Satan that was Blind. Everlasting peace, love & goodwill to all filled with the love of our Father await the faithful in the Promised Land, not war. When our Father said to me Ezekiel Son of Man I send you to the children of Israel I arrived on the 1st July, 1951, hair cut, blindfolded, gagged with no memory of before & no ability to think for myself. Our Father put Satan in my flesh & for 17 years examined my desires. Having left me, to stay a little longer he needed to get inside a flesh with the host accepting him for what he was. Trapped, he was dealt with in 1985 as I regained my Birth Right. Now, through our Father’s power my desire rules the Footstool. I bring people’s truth out in them, warn of the consequences of sin & call on sinners to repent. Satan’s desires compelled him to kill, deceive & brag which to him was all a “piss take” in the most grossly perverted of manners for he knew whatever the outcome between him & me he was always a dead man. Strangest of all, our Father’s Creation Mankind turned against the Creator, how do you fathom that. Satan called that on earth which is in the Heavens. Jerusalem is a beautiful place in the Heavens while here on earth it’s namesake should be the very place where peace, love & goodwill to all should flourish from yet how long has it been a war zone & he changed the name of it’s country to his own, Blasphemy-Israel. Scientists said they could not understand how so much radiation emits from the Black Hole but no light. Boys & girls, I give you my Word of Honour which it is to be our Father’s Messenger, His Word for all our sakes. Inside THEE CAVE is Thee Sea of Fire where rejects perish into Eternal Death Judgement Day. The Father saith, “Because you have forsaken My Law, I will melt you.” Satan knew where he was deceitfully leading those that abide with his Satanic scriptures from the Cave. Three times, 1 for each challenge Satan denied me before that cock crowed while here he used the true faith with rotten administrators to sin in my name. Santa is an anagram of Satan where he tries to indoctrinate the youngest into his ways on the very day people celebrate my birthday although I was born a long time before & not from woman. That Bastard had a field day turning brother against brother now come together with me for the love of our Father. Muslim, Jew, I admire your strength in faith very much but despise your faith for righteousness sake. Everyone put your strength of faith in me & you are home & dry for evermore filled with the love of our Father. Tempus Fugit boys & girls. CHRIST.
@@davidbarnes3262 David this was absolutely mind boggling and interesting. Can you summarize what you mean? This seems like lore no one has read before.
@@justinmcintire4980 Concisely then: Please, allow me to introduce myself; I am he whose birth was Willed by the Creator. He then did the same with His Daughter. We were not born from woman & It was a long time after we were born with war in the Heavens that the Word became flesh. The Holy Spirit is our Father extending Himself. I am an extension of & One with the Creator, the Creation Man, not Creator. I am the Father's Mould for people. All lines come back to me & that's why our Father said only through me His Son can you reach the Kingdom of Heaven. I am the Creator’s Judge over all His children & that is why our Father Engraved His Law in His Mould’s Rock of Ages Soul. The Father is Thee Prophet. I am His Word, His Messenger, His Prophet. My Sword is my tongue. People have been subjected to SATANIC INSANITY for a very long time & here’s the reason why; Our Father’s Creation mankind turned against Him when Satan blasphemed. Having accepted Satan’s 3 challenges the Father’s merciful benevolence came with a condition. For myself, being One with the Creator was put on hold when our Father told me if I keep the faith all doing likewise will survive, if I don't all perish. When you trace a fault on a production line to the Mould all is discarded. Covenant of the Ark. When my Father the Creator Isaac gave my Birth Right to the Greatest of all Deceivers Satan-Jacob later called Israel He gave him dominion over all on my Footstool. Life became a strict test of faith with Satan on the prowl. Hence, the worst words I ever spoke, Suffer Unto Me. Out of the flesh the Swine recruited those that Stumbled & took much pleasure rearranging our SCRIPTURES to assist him turning brother against brother & belittling me to turn people against me & didn't he manage a real good job of it all, a boys & girls. People insisting abiding with their beliefs preventing them accepting the Truth after being informed throughout the ages people have inadvertently studied that which is false having been indoctrinated into the falsehood from birth is so hugely disappointing & even more so with Everlasting Life at stake. The book of Enoch says when Lamech’s son opened his eyes the whole house lit up. In the Bible the same says Light came into the World & here I am despised for revealing the sins of mankind.
@@justinmcintire4980 Little wonder then, with mankind being easily led rebellious sheep it was just a matter of time before Satan so easily imposed his Democracy upon the Father’s children turning state with it’s sinfully attractive freedoms against corrupted church convincing the sheep in their majority it was their legal right to rule over the Father as he did so. Such are the desires of those that stray Democracy very happily & oh so easily accommodates itself for & with votes. Consequently, millions upon millions of the Father’s very youngest are murdered as they lay helpless inside their mothers. Democracy even questions the Father’s Creation of gender & eagerly encourages man to lay with man & woman to lay with woman along with it’s disgustingly filthy sex in dust try. Democracy indoctrinates children into it’s Satanically retarded educational system which is steadily destroying it’s own home with Democracy’s greedy Free Enterprise filth. Democracy pushes it’s disease infested food, water & medical supplies upon the Father’s children & has continued to do so after I gave you the evidence in your British West Midland Police Operation Crossbow & again when your British Police raided a Scottish BBC studio in your Zircon Spy Satellite Affair where you were told Zir Con was getting you to collect all the evidence again after you lied about the Operation Crossbow evidence having gone missing. Wrong Pharm. It does not Ceut mankind as on the contrary it’s violently detrimental to mankind's health. Democracy stole the food out of the mouths of starving children taxing the band & live aid collections & refused to hand over both seeds needed for food growth after being paid for both when the children of Ethiopia were deliberately herded into the desert & starved to death in their tens of thousands. Against the will of the majority even, as behind the scenes the will of the people is meaningless, Democratically “elected” terrorists masquerading as democrats eagerly conspire to turn brother against brother for hate’s sake, to rule through fear, to impose their will on other states, to rule the roost over their own electorate, to sell their murderous filth to fund their pseudo Democratic disgrace & as always line their own blood stained pockets, etc etc etc. Of late Democracy’s very own Satanic Illuminati terrorists have taken to moving Europeans around Europe disorientating them while they stampede Satan’s very own Islam into Europe & everywhere else whereupon Islam immediately sets about constructing it’s terrorist network where every mosque is the local FALSE PROPHET terrorists HQ. Also of late Democracy sees to it that it’s High Tech disenfranchises voters that are not of the same disposition, although, from inception Democracy was always Satanically farcical.
@@justinmcintire4980 The Father made you all free to choose for yourselves & warned you all about making the wrong choices & I warned you in 1987 when the Father Heralded the Overturning of Free Enterprise the Father is in the process of Reestablishing His Law Over His Creation Mankind. I warned you when the Piper Alpha oil rig exploded, the Father is the Piper that calls the Tune, I am Alpha & the oil was only for sale should you agree to take less & less in a manner that would cause no person any harm, you declined a lifeline. I warned you when a ball of fire was seen shooting around the ticket office at Kings Cross, Death by Fire is the ticket for all the Father’s enemies. I warned you of your Discovery when you become a Challenger to the Father but you learnt nothing from the teacher I put aboard the shuttle. I warned you of your desire to destroy my Footstool & live in outer space when I told you about the billions of gallons of toxic filth you pour into the waters daily from which CFC’s etc rise with the filth that forms the rain clouds but like iron filings to a magnet the CFC’s are drawn to two points, one directly above the North Pole the other directly above the South Pole where your toxins burn holes in the sky allowing the sun’s rays to shine through stronger causing Global Warming & the Ice Caps to melt. It took Satan a long time but you got there. Consequently, I told you there is No, Zero, 0 Zone you can hide from me & space is where you will perish for I Will Melt You saith the Father because you have forsaken MY LAW. I warned you when Adam bit the Apple & Samson brought down those Pillars it is an EMERGENCY & I have warned you of much else many times before & since 9/11. Democracy, with all that vote for Democracy in their “HEARTS” should a time arrive when my Father & myself are not One we will all perish but whether the Father & myself remain as One or not EITHER WAY DEMOCRACY YOU PERISH as your grossly perverted Satanic murderous way of life has deliberately set itself against the Creator constantly working at disrespecting the Father, constantly deceitfully reducing the population with your wars, a long list of diseases along with your free enterprise in dust trial home wrecking disgrace etc etc etc have all amounted to a most disgraceful departing Satanic failure. Democracy & my ass is the Statue of Liberty & soon after it’s placement those that gave it to you also announced Ei-Ffel. Satan saw to all that. This is not a request. The power you have & should never have taken & even more so wielded in such a horrendously disgraceful two faced manner over the Father’s children is being taken from you. Your grand speeches, military might & evil ways will be no more. Your reign of terror is over. Altogether you are less than a crippled fly to be swatted & swatted you will be.
Rare unfolding of a Beautifully, and intellectually discussed difficult subject, should be accepted by believers and nonbelievers alike. Congratulations to our narrator.
remove this verse from your quran and hadith first, my friend The Qur'an calls Christians and Jews "the worst of creatures" (98:6) and commands you to violently subjugate us (9:29). Christians are being mercilessly persecuted in Muslim lands by your brothers and sisters. And you ask why we bother to respond? It's all out of hatred, right? Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. But you don't see anything hateful in what the Qur'an says about non-Muslims (for instance, when Allah says that he has no love for non-Muslims in 3:32)? And you have no objections to 4:34, 4:24, 5:51, etc.? if you do not agree with me, then you are terrorist, go in peace, my friend from peace nobleist
It's easy to overlook the fact that scholars have been approaching these subjects in this way for decades, given how loud the more biased voices among the faithful can be.
Fun occult fact: if u burn a black cat and put the ashes in your eyes, u can see the demon world that God put a veil on. Burning and sacrificing the black cat to lord Satan will remove the veil.
I enjoyed this brief and fair summary. I’d nuance two bits of it: 1., most scholars agree that those taken to Babylon in 586 BCE were the elites, mostly, not all the Judahites, regardless of what the texts say. It was common practice among many conquering peoples (the Assyrians were another example) to exile or sell the elites in order to subdue resistance and eradicate “high culture”; often, other people were then imported to replace them. 2., it’s generally agreed that the shift to a monotheistic cultus was not “pure." The Jerusalem Temple may have been restricted to the worship of one, unseen God; but the people's beliefs and practices were likely difficult to control -- thus, the need for the inclusion of all the opposition to such practices in the later editions of the texts. As more than one prominent historian has said: there's no need to strongly forbid something unless it's happening. A lot. It's likely that, at least into the Hellenistic era, there were many Jews (the name change is accepted for post-586 BCE eras) who visited the shrines and holy places of others' deities, to show respect. In the ancient world, it was considered extremely rude to ignore the god(s) of the places and people one visits. Thus, many non-Jews respected the Jewish people as an ancient one, but considered their refusal to give other gods their due to be atheistic and downright rude. In fact, the term "atheist" was first lobbed at Jews and early Christians, because of their refusal -- more widespread by then -- to acknowledge other gods. One prominent scholar of the Near East in Late Antiquity has asserted that there was no such thing as “pure monotheism” anywhere in antiquity, possibly not even during the Byzantine era. Given the persistence of beliefs in demons, lesser deities, spirits of the dead, angels, etc., into our own time, one could assert that pure monotheism is an ideal, but not real on the ground, so to speak. This is true among Jews as well as other peoples. See the persistence among Jews of amulets, talismans, appeals to angels and warding-off of demons, down to the present. Jews wore -- and wear -- the hamsa, a charm used to ward off the evil eye among many peoples throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere; the mezuzah, a tiny portion of scripture encased in a container and attached to the doorposts of buildings, is popularly thought to keep the premises safe -- despite assertions by rabbis that this is superstition, and was only intended to remind people of God as they come and go. The mezuzah or mezuzah-like pendants are popularly worn around the neck, for similar reasons. We can call it superstition, but on some level, it's a belief system. BTW I’ve encountered a number of Jewish women who are very drawn to the Christian figure of Mary. The adoration of the Shekhinah/Sabbath Bride became popular among Jewish mystics in the 13th century (as seen in the Zohar and later texts), and possibly earlier. This practice closely parallels the era of the growing celebration of Mary among European Christians, especially during the troubadour period, and the spread of cathedral building during the European Middle Ages. The great Rabbi Yosef Caro, author of the still-authoritative Jewish law code, the Shulchan Aruch (16th century), described being “visited” by an angelic teacher (a "magid") who imparted mystical and other insights to him. And on and on. So the argument for a purity of monotheism is flimsy, at best. We humans love our unseen forces.
Historian212- You are way to historically accurate for this thread :). I will add though that Hebrews struggled with polytheism right through the first temple period as evidenced in the multiple names for God with uncanny similarities to the Canaanite deities (eg Baal) as evidenced in The Hebrew Bible. It wasn't until the second temple period when monotheism was dogmatized and ensconced in the narrative when the Hebrew Bible was compiled and canonized.
Great, detailed retort to the fallacy of monotheism; and poor Mary, she had to embody ALL the female attributes previously associated to a multitude of goddesses in polytheistic traditions.
I have spent my life being fascinated by religion as a cultural phenomenon, and also in searching for the true nature of spirituality as it underpins the meaning of life. This man is benefiting me greatly. No didacticism, no guru delusion, no ego - just the facts and theories stated with commendable lucidity. The fact that we don't even know his name gives us a reason to trust and listen to him. I'm watching one video a night and learning a lot.
Just to say I’ve found your channel today and I absolutely love it! History and religious history absolutely fascinates me and I wish I did it at university but instead I got my doctorate in quantum physics at Cambridge University (subject that I love too) but I did look at going back to study one of these subjects but family matters happened and I couldn’t do it. I have heard of Yahweh once having a wife/female partner and a personal theory of mine is that when the early Jews were taken back to Babylon (who’s own religious beliefs come down from the earlier Sumerians) adopted some of the Babylonian/Sumerian’s beliefs into their own even though they were still allowed to practice their own beliefs (Jewish beliefs). The stories of Adam & Eve and Noah come from Sumerian sources and the word “Eden” is in fact Sumerian meaning “wild land” that has not been cultivated by man (though many cultures around the world have flood stories which I believe have been passed down orally for thousands of years from the Younger Dryas 11,600yrs ago). Like I said a personal theory
@@ezrakim1323 actually the book of Malachi in the bible confirm this .. Some of the Jews back then (in The Babylonian Exile period) did fell into some pagan practises of the people there. Some fell bcs of their pagan spouses ask them pay respect to their gods and some other fell for cultural and social causes .. The book of Malachi especially rebuke those jews bcs of this misbehaviour ..
I have fallen now down the rabbit hole and its been so interesting. I also believe your opinion is most likely a correct one.I am now reading the Torah for the second time.
Yes. The story of Moses’ death was one of the biggest clues that first helped scholars to realize the first 5 books could not have been written by Moses. For some additional textual clues, try reading here: sites.google.com/site/investigatingchristianity/home/otchrono#LateAuthorship
I am a Mosiem, and got confused regarding the Holy books of the Jews and the Christians. You gave explicit details and explained it very comprehensively. Very well presented. Thanks. 🤗
@@onkelirohsjasmintee5613 it's nice to correspond with you. You put in a lot of effort in your presentations. Please keep up the good work🤗and God bless you. 🙏.
I really enjoy your presentations...I just finished the one on the Jinn. Thank you for all the research you have done for these. You are a very good teacher.
Judaism have a long tradition of debating among Jewish theologians. So I guess it i logical to conclude that the texts changed according to what ever interpretation of any given idea was strongest at that moment. I don't know why while writing this I have this mind picture of Diogenes crashing a lecture at Plato's academy with a plucked chicken.
You have become my favoured bedtime story narrator. The work you have put in your videos are amazing, and I humbly offer my thanks and appreciation. Who knew Sweeds could be this smart. Blessings from your oil nation brother, just across the border.
"No religion can saved us.. There was no religion specified in the Holy Bible that can saved us but loving God with whole body, mind, Heart and soul can saved us. Meaning you and only God can saved us. Goodluck. "
The mural relief you showed was of the Romans carrying away the contents of the Temple in Jerusalem after they sacked it and left ‘no stone atop another’
Your account of Torah and Jews religion is very accurate . Hope humans understand these factual narrations, and revive humanity, which has been lost in the horizon.
What a great channel :) I really appreciated your closing remarks. That for a lot of people, textual contradictions are not what is important in relation to the stories and their teachings. Maintaining neutrality is difficult when talking about scripture, but I think you do a good job!
All Denominations, I tell you the Truth. Satan hated all our Father’s Creations & in particular, Us, so he came for me knowing if I lost the faith we were all gone, written in the Covenant of the Ark our Father gave us of which all left outside the Ark regret. When our Father presents me with something it usually means it’s for us all as it is with our Coat of Many Colours which sometimes you can see when the sun shines through the rain & a beautiful sight it is. When the Creator Isaac gave my Birth Right to Satan-Jacob later called Israel He gave him dominion over all on my Footstool & out of the flesh he slithered from one to another recruiting those that Stumbled & took much pleasure rearranging our scriptures. For thousands of years people have been born into Satanic madness which over time has intensified. All deceived, some desiring, relishing sin. I am Aaron of Judah, High Priest under our Father, guardian of the Ark & Judah is our Father’s Law. I am Moses, there were no stones to smash, it simply means the Law was broken. Our Father’s Law is engraved in the Rock of Ages, my soul & it was always Satan that was Blind. Everlasting peace, love & goodwill to all filled with the love of our Father await the faithful in the Promised Land, not war. When our Father said to me Ezekiel Son of Man I send you to the children of Israel I arrived on the 1st July, 1951, hair cut, blindfolded, gagged with no memory of before & no ability to think for myself. Our Father put Satan in my flesh & for 17 years examined my desires. Having left me, to stay a little longer he needed to get inside a flesh with the host accepting him for what he was. Trapped, he was dealt with in 1985 as I regained my Birth Right. Now, through our Father’s power my desire rules the Footstool. I bring people’s truth out in them, warn of the consequences of sin & call on sinners to repent. Satan’s desires compelled him to kill, deceive & brag which to him was all a “piss take” in the most grossly perverted of manners for he knew whatever the outcome between him & me he was always a dead man. Strangest of all, our Father’s Creation Mankind turned against the Creator, how do you fathom that. Satan called that on earth which is in the Heavens. Jerusalem is a beautiful place in the Heavens while here on earth it’s namesake should be the very place where peace, love & goodwill to all should flourish from yet how long has it been a war zone & he changed the name of it’s country to his own, Blasphemy-Israel. Scientists said they could not understand how so much radiation emits from the Black Hole but no light. Boys & girls, I give you my Word of Honour which it is to be our Father’s Messenger, His Word for all our sakes. Inside THEE CAVE is Thee Sea of Fire where rejects perish into Eternal Death Judgement Day. The Father saith, “Because you have forsaken My Law, I will melt you.” Satan knew where he was deceitfully leading those that abide with his Satanic scriptures from the Cave. Three times, 1 for each challenge Satan denied me before that cock crowed while here he used the true faith with rotten administrators to sin in my name. Santa is an anagram of Satan where he tries to indoctrinate the youngest into his ways on the very day people celebrate my birthday although I was born a long time before & not from woman. That Bastard had a field day turning brother against brother now come together with me for the love of our Father. Muslim, Jew, I admire your strength in faith very much but despise your faith for righteousness sake. Everyone put your strength of faith in me & you are home & dry for evermore filled with the love of our Father. Tempus Fugit boys & girls. CHRIST.
Beautiful post, but no way he could cover the entire topic, which is truly mesmerizing. There are ancient political factors, regional variants, foreign influences, and if you read closely you can see the idea of the Hebrew God evolve, from a tribal war god to king of the Universe.
We don’t know the author, and on top of that millions of contradictions, NUMERICAL contradictions, and a flawed logic. How do you follow a book that has millions of versions, doesn’t that show you the true book wasn’t protected, how would you know which one is true? And no authors for any of them? Oh I’ll tell you their authors, the Christians themselves.
That's the worlds largest kept secret , No one knows. In fact that's the only thing which keeps the people trusting the powers. Don't follow man for that very reason: for they do not know with certainty where they are going.
I'm really enjoying this channel. You're giving "Religion for Breakfast" some great competition! If you're taking requests, I'd really like to hear more about the morphing of Judaism into Christianity in its earliest days, from the Hasmonian Dynasty with its apocalyptic cults and Qumran writers, up to Rabbat Johanan ben Zakkai and his students, and their replacement of sacrifice with deeds and prayer for the atonement of sin in place of the lost Temple. And, your recommended scholarly reading on this time period. Thanks!
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Speaking purely from a linguist's perspective, the Torah is written in a number of language varieties, whose differences from each other go far beyond differences of style. Differences in the inflection of verbs give the impression that some passages are of much greater antiquity than others. As I am not a theologian, I will not speculate as to why this should be so.
The Ancient Rabbis wrote the words of Moses according to their own understanding, will , policy and added mythical stories to it, even made changes to it , to please the kings of that period .
@@roymerritt348 Of course, for example: God had wrestling with Jacob for hours, then God tells Jacob: your name is Israel from now . What was necessary to wrestling? No difference between Christians and Jews , when they believe that God came in human body and had wrestling with Jacob. At least , Christians say that God came to lead people, not for wrestling.
@@susandidary9646 that’s truth it was symbolic that Israel wrestled God for a Blessing and Remember were made in God image so it wasn’t a Human form it was just God
@@uhhh604 Yes, because the standard for writing "history" was different in those days. Mostly allegorical, like Aesop's Fables, the point was the moral to the story, not the "events".
I am Catholic (lay minister) and teach Bible. Nothing you said contradicts my introductory class. The Bible must be first understood as literature then in light of the faith and times if one so chooses. Your approach is very respectful. I trust the info you share about religions completely unknown to me to be equally objective. Thanks.
I have to wonder whose story we are reading. I have read the Epic of Gilgamesh and found a few stories the same as in the Torah. The is a seven year bounty and famine in Gilgamesh similar to the story in Genesis of Joseph preparing Egypt for the same conditions.
@@changer1285 what i found out about people and even religion, they are kinda lazy and like to steal ideas. What, easter ? Well of course that's christian holiday, no way did they try appease pagans so they don't bitch about not having nothing to celebrate that day. Reminds me, out of 875 re-imaginations of dracula- just in movies, which is your favorite ? Because if i asked about god, people would get more mad then about favorite version of dracula, and future generations will have their version... like Twillight uh.
@@Enkabard none of us really know which religion is correct and by how many religions they are that's crazy to think about, maybe there isn't even a "right" religion at all.
@@CRXW. agree, just following the evolution of religion makes it clear there isn't much truth to neither. 1)We started of in stone age believing anything we cant explain is god- fire, sun, rain. 2)Then we stepped up before ancient times to believing more abstract things are god, like War, Love, Cash is god, cause we knew what sun or fire is long time ago. 3)Then we had to scrap that because we realized what chemicals in our brains are some time BC. so newly god is one invisible dude who is just chilling in the sky, punishing people for fun. 4)But now we reached point that we know in the sky there is universe and no bearded guys having fun with jesus in there so basically if you ask people in modern time, for them "god" is force in the universe, just unknown power that really doesnt exist, but leads fate of everything somehow... i think we reached absurd level of religion cause there is really nowhere to step down to accommodate religion and human knowledge at same time.... maybe like Scientology but that's just stupid.
Humans have always had an amazing ability to tell fascinating stories. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that we will ever really know what level of truth these stories contain and most of them are probably fiction. The literature that contains these stories is also fascinating and written by some of the most wises and influential men at the time. Throughout the centuries, the literature has been used to conquer, dominate and control humans. Sometimes for the better but, often times for the worst.
thank you from a 80 year old inquisitive learner you make it so easy to follow from a very difficult subject. Thank you took me a long time to find you, never to old to lean.blessings d❤
I would argue against the idea that most Christians don't care whether the events of the Bible are historically true (although my view may be biased by having grown up in American Evangelicalism, so that branch of Christianity is the norm I'm used to). Many Christians (IME) believe that the Bible is the revealed word of God, and their adherence to its rules is based on that belief. If they cease to believe that, for instance, the Torah was given to Moses by God, then their belief in the teachings of the Torah may be greatly shaken. They don't even have to be absolutely fundamentalist, or believe in an entirely literal reading of things like the six-day creation story to believe that the authority for their faith rests on the (historical) Truth of fundamental parts of the Bible, like Moses' reception of the Torah on Mt Sinai.
I'd say Jews in general tend to care way less than Evangelical Christians about the historicity of the stories. Catholics in my experience care less also.
One of my favorite interpretations of the creation of mankind in Gen 1 & 2 is that what God created--the Adama, or earthling made of clay and imbued with life via the breath of God--was not "a man," but rather a creature that was neither male nor female--or, perhaps was both. As such, this being initially carried with it the whole of what humanity is, regardless of sexual roles. This seems (to me) to be a more generous interpretation of what God is, if His creation was created in His image: God is not a male, not some heavenly analog of a man, but is instead a representation of the human-kind. An interpretation of creating woman from from the Adama that is a more poetic interpretation than the traditional one where she is created from a rib extracted from the Adama, is one in which she is originally a part of the Adama that is separated (perhaps at the rib, as if they were like conjoined twins, say) from Adam. Another (major) thing that (I think) makes this such a beautiful interpretation is that the sex act becomes an act of imitatio dei--imitating God to create life, a feature that is uniquely God-like.
Written 3000 year's before the bible Eden is mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh as the garden of the Gods and was supposedly located somewhere between the Rivers Tigris and the Euphrates in ancient Mesopotamia. Eden is an ancient Sumerian word which means ‘flat terrain’. What is extremely interesting in the ancient Sumerian Creation Story is the fact that initially, man created by the Gods was not able to reproduce on their own. This is why the Gods ‘MODIFIED’ mankind with the help of Enki and his sister Ninki. After the Gods had modified mankind, Adapa was created as a fully functional human being which had the ability to reproduce. However, this ‘modification’ was done without being approved by Enlil, brother of Enki and Ninki, which created a conflict among the Gods. The conflict made Enlil the first adversary of human beings and according to ancient Sumerian texts, mankind went through an extremely difficult time while serving the gods. So much *plagiarizing* in the bible
@@fordprefect5304 I wouldn't call it plagiarizing at all, but rather their own take on stories and myths that existed in the Middle East. In fact you could almost call it localisation.
The meaning of the word Adama is Earth not earthling. Very different from the word Adam which literally means Man. Ben Adam, means son of man. In other words, human. In the Torah it says that Adam was created from the Earth and Eve was created from his rib. So that he would understand she's an extention of him, of the same flesh and blood.
@@seriouslyinsanediva According to the Sumerian story “Enki and Ninmah,” the lesser gods, burdened with the toil of creating the earth, complained to Namma, the primeval mother, about their hard work. She in turn roused her son Enki, the god of wisdom, and urged him to create a substitute to free the gods from their toil. Namma then kneaded some clay, placed it in her womb, and gave birth to the first humans. *Written thousands of years before the bible.*
The documentary hypothesis has been shown to be not true by archaeology. 1.The worlds oldest alphabets are not from Phoenicia like previously thought, but found in the Sinai, and dated from the time Moses and the people of Israel would have been on the Exodus (proto-Sinaitic/Hebrew). " 2. It is widely known among Orthodox Jews who read the Mishna (written 10-220 AD) and the Talmud (70-520 CE) that the last 8 verses of Deuteronomy were written by Joshua, and the whole Torah was recompiled by Ezra in the 2nd Temple period. The creators of the documentary hypothesis formed this by using logical Western European models instead of Jewish culture/Archaeology/ and historical sources from Rabbi's. Traditional Judaism has 70 names for G-d, they describe his attributes, much like we can call a king a ruler, head of state, monarch etc.
I have seen too many people who are very religious at the same time haters, racists etc. I have concluded that all I need is to practice the three commendments/principles of the Zoroastrian without conveting. I don't need anything more to be good in this world to be kind and service to otheres : "Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good deeds!"
I appreciate that you shared this video; thank you. The part about the first two chapters of Genesis reminded me of a conversation that I had with my dad when I was a child. He told me that there were two distinctly different creation stories in the Bible-- that these chapters were somewhat contradictory. I respectfully disagreed (and still do). To me, the first chapter of Genesis simply lays out a basic outline and time frame for what happened during creation, while the second chapter gets into the details in a more personal way. It would be quite difficult to merge the two in any manner that would be reasonably easy to follow. So, when I read it, I see a very deep and poetic story conveying the occurrences concerning the creation of our earth 🌎, and possibly even the beginning of time (as we conceive it to be)-- not two separate and conflicting accounts. I don't recall any disparate details.
The monotheism and the concept of heaven and hell, came from their liberators in their babylonian captivity, under Cyrus the Great who was a zoroastrian
I've thought for years that the first 2 chapters of genesis are 2 different creation stories, but unlike what you said I've always thought genesis 1 is the older
@@James-iu2km I take the Bible literally. In Genesis 2 the creation week is over. Whom do you believe? Gen. 2.17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.... Or do you believe this? Gen.3:4b-5 "You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." And disbelieve this? Ezekiel 18L20 "The soul who sins is the one who will die...." Or do you believe the lie of Genesis 3:4-5? "When he (Satan) speaks a lie, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44). Do you believe you're going to heaven and others are already in torments? "You shall not surely die" equals "the doctrine of the immortality of the soul." Or do you gloss over Ezekiel 18? The precious hope of an immediate heavenly reward is desired by those who adopt this Platonic doctrine as Bible Truth. Was the apostle JOhn wrong when he wrote "No man has ascended into heaven except for He who came down from heaven, even the Son of Man Who is in heaven" (John 3.13).Yep, the devils deception disguished as assurance of a heavenly home immediately after death rather than a paradise in the coming Kingdom of God on Earth. Who do you believe? The Father and the Son or the father of lies?
according to Jewish interpretation "Elohim" is the plural word for Yahweh attributes and powers manifested. EL or ELOH is singular and when adding the "IM" it becomes plural. Elohim is also associated with angels who are like the ambassadors of those attributes. for example in the Hebrew bible, Exodus Chapter 7:1 both words appear in one verse: "And the LORD (Yahweh/יהוה) said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in God's (Elohim/אלוהים) stead to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet." in this verse God/Yahweh does not make Moses God but grant him the status of "Gods attributes"/ELOHIM in the eyes of pharaoh.
I just discovered and subscribed to your channel, I really appreciate it! I found you while researching the gnostic gospels which I just read for the first time. I am very curious how/why the gnostic gospels were rejected from the cannon. Do you have any suggestions for content for me to better understand this historical process? Thank you!
All races are mixed with other races, all languages are related to many other languages, all religions are borrowed from other religions. The process is going to continue.
I really wish you talked more about whether the old testament was influenced by zoroastrianism or other religious beliefs that they would have been more heavily exposed to while in exile. Your explanation of the Hebrews transition from monolatry to more monotheistic views is great, but more detail into whether or not other aspects of Judaism were influenced by other cultures and religions would have been better.
One of the most interesting influences from Zoroastrianism is the introduction of the devil as a true foil/opponent that has been more prominently retained in Christianity instead of modern strains of Judaism. Ha-satan in older texts is actually an agent of God and a proper modern translation that would capture the meaning is arguably prosecutor (AKA a proper role within the court of God and not a cosmic evil being)
One thing I heard at marker 3:20 is that we have "no real evidence" but that is why it is called Faith. Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
The Torah is what started my path to atheism. As a young child, god and his angels killing innocent babies really bothered me. But the adults found inspiration in that.
God can't murder anyone because he is the owner and giver of life, and if you believe Christianity to be true, people dont really "die" they just change "places".
Me too! ESPECIALLY the story of Sodom and Ghamora (spelling???)!!! Whoa!!! Offering his daughters up for gang rape and then in turn, them getting him drunk so they could rape their father!!! If that is even possible cuz let me tell you.... if these girls really existed and were in fact, impregnated by their father, I am 99.99999999% certain that the explanation given in Genesis isn’t entirely accurate!!! I’d believe it if it were the other way around, but regardless of one’s morals here, I’m pretty sure that the logistics are physically improbable since the male equipment is usually pretty useless for baby making after heavy alcohol consumption or while the owner of it is asleep! Then, as you mentioned, the whole killing rampage thing where they are instructed by god to kill everyone in town except for the virgins (more specifically, “the women children who have never laid with a man”), whom they were told to take as wives for themselves. I, personally, would refer to these young girls as victims of slavery and child abuse rather than as “wives” though! So yeah- A LOT of atheists become atheists just by reading the Bible. Not only does it contradict itself many many times and no one even seems to know who even physically wrote it and yet we’re also expected to trust completely that these mystery authors were actually being spoken to by god himself. (Even tho God never seems to do it when anyone else is around in order to corroborate!) but all the talk of slavery, sexism, genocide, etc etc. is just NOT what a supreme, all knowing, all loving god would ever choose to share with his people. It’s just not. It’s OBVIOUS! And then... all the issues and variations due to translating in from and into various different languages! It’s downright ridiculous.
Interestingly, scholarly research suggests David did not slay Goliath, but an individual named Elhanan did. If the ancients could modify the Torah to say this it should make you wonder what else was modified.
God made the law for us to live in a moral society. Those who follow His Commandments will be rewarded with a good life and peaceful existence during their lifetime while He punishes those who break his laws. Wise men could easily recognize between good and evil deeds. If they choose the latter, then they have to pay the price.
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@@tiyopaeng2425 God made the law to teach the nature of sin and grace, as a disciplinarian for the spirituality weak until an age when he would reveal the way to spiritual maturity.
Thank You for addressing the controversy. Many leave that part out. While getting my Religion Major in college the JEDP sources and Documentary Hypothesis were the Gold Standard among Biblical scholars. Today there are more and more challenging that view as outdated.
Thank, this was very helpful! I have been struggling with this concept of biblical facts for a few years now. Whether factual or not; the important thing is the message or lessons the writings convey.
@@unme4728 Yep - the book is human, don't you agree? It does not appear to be like the so called unscriptural New Testament that tends to avoid such words. Love it or leave it - The Torah is against - the list of vices you indicated. However, the Torah does not prevent you from acting wickedly. It is similar to our laws and constitutions - that are full of morals but prisons are filled with every law breaker you can imagine. If people commit crimes we don't conclude, that the King or President is mad or irrational. The criminal is to blame and not the law makers. Same with Bible - sinners walk in every street - but that does not make the Torah evil.
I often wonder how much variation in the stories crept in from translation to translation. Abraham would have told the stories in Chaldean, his descendants would have used Canaanite, the slaves would have spoken Egyptian, later it would have been Canaanite again, finally Hebrew. Some words and phrases would not translate exactly, so substitutes would have to be used.
You are very close to the truth , which language did Moses and his followers speak or read ,? And would God send a message to the people in a language they never knew anything about it ? Doesn't this explain why it took them such a long time to write it ? It took them a thousand years to come up with what we see now.
@@ahmadalminyawi8400 Moses spent 40 years in the Palestine area, so likely knew that language. If he was educated as a prince, he could very well have known other tongues as well. But the slaves would have known only Egyptian, since they and their parents were raised in that language.
@@ahmadalminyawi8400 Moses died at 120 after 40 some years in the Exodus, so he must have been somewhere between 70 and 80 when he came back to Egypt. He had to have spent some decades of that in Midian.
Hello Filip. I really enjoy your presentations. Many years ago I read a book called God: a biography. Written by Jack Miles in 1995. It was very interesting and I wonder if his treatment of the source texts meshes with the four sources theory? I'll have to read it again....
The most interesting thing it’s Middle Eastern origin and the first Jewish and Christians were Middle Eastern which later on Romans fraud it and changed it a lot
Muslim Believes in Torah, Zabur, And Injeel beside Quran. But these were not Biography about Prophets, but morals, and judgements by God given to Respective Prophets to make ruling and judgements among themselves.
Muslims believe that both Jewish and Christian scriptures were CORRUPTED! Whether it was on purpose is debated among Muslim scholars. Which parts were changed is also debated. All parts that support Islamic doctrine, dogma and ideology are believed to be true, accurate unchanged ,uncorrupted.😉
@@owlnyc666 Allah clearly told Muslims that Pervious generations people wrote into God's book and selling for small profit as Money, Power, Supremacy, getaways from Punishments. And told us that Quran is Acid test for all those books to makeout True from False acclaimed words to be from God. All books has certain truth and without it, those books will be just a book and nothing more for readers as everything requires certain truth to stand on and corruption is Ruling and thanking that divert people from Following Truth.
@@owlnyc666 The person who don't read and understand their own book, and could not accept the countless numbers of Revisions, Addition, Subtraction, and rejection of other similar text. These don't need Upgrade/correction
I would love to see you do "Who wrote the Torah?", since that would cover the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and also the surprising role of the Abbasid Caliphate in its development. Your existing videos on Judaism jump from the earliest history of Judaism to a much later period.
Job has a passage in it referring to "I am a companion to owls and a brother to dragons". I have only ever seen it in a very old KJV! At some point, apparently, the dragon was changed, being too serpentlike. I've googled but can't find if the dragon is in the Torah, and I know no scholars to ask. Can you find out?
I think your viewers would love a video about the earliest artefacts for the Hebrew Bible and what they show about easiest versions of the texts. Plus a corresponding video on the gathering and sélection (and omission) of texts for the earliest Christian bibles.
On the Jewish artifacts, check videos featuring prominent archaeologist/historian Israel Finkelstein (I've outlined a tiny bit in response to another person in the comments here). He represents a middle-road perspective on the early Israelites. He's not a "believer," in that he's not about proving or disproving the Bible. In fact, he's been opposed by religious Jews and Christians for some of his views. He co-authored a revolutionary popular book in the early 2000s called "The Bible Unearthed," which shifted many people's ideas about (a) the historicity of the people who came to be known as the Israelites, the Judahites, and later, the Jews; and (b) what we can know and can't know about them, at this point. It's still a good book, but it's now about 20 years old; so it's worth looking at videos of Finkelstein's later talks. You'll see some debates between him and other archaeologists, but it's mostly about interpretation of the data, not whether or not the evidence exists. It exists, and it's quite ancient. There's also a History Channel show on TH-cam that's based on "The Bible Unearthed," which features Finkelstein and his co-author. It's also older, but still can give a good introduction to the places and pieces of proof. I'd caution that the narration is overblown and over-dramatic, but that's the History Channel for you. Still, good stuff in it, and nice views of the locations and digs.
The exiles returned from Babylon in three waves. The first was led by Zerubbabel, the second by Ezra, and the third by Nehemiah. Perhaps these waves correspond to the JE, P, and D sources.
Or maybe the two sources J and E are from oral or written traditions from the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah, respectively or vice versa, joined and commented in Babylon. Those two states might have evolved differing traditions.
Who wrote the bible is also the title of one of my favorite books on the subject. By Richard Freeman. The writing is really clear, even being an academic publication.
I have this book. The theories it offers are quite compelling, and the book overall is very good. I would recommend it to anyone interested in biblical history. I have heard from someone more knowledgeable than I am that some of the scholarship is a bit dated, but that overall it's pretty solid (at least, by contemporary biblical research norms). Even if the theories are flawed, I think it offers an eye-opening exercise that leads the reader to a greater understanding of the challenges that historical researchers face, and how historians can apply rigorous analysis to develop plausible explanations.
When juruslam was sacked, temple was raised to ground, total population which was about 80 thousand then rounded up and taken to babylon ....not a single copy survived. Rest is history.
That’s not true. When the canaanites including the tribe of Judah was punished for collapsing the Bronze Age world, they were exiled into enduntured slavery for 500 years(the time the whole world was set back by their actions). Their faith was taken as well, put into a vault(along with the people’s who aided them). Upon release by Cyrus, they were given the Torah back, edited, to confuse its people on their origin. The idea is if you spend generations chasing that ghost you will never know the parts of the faith that caused the violence and entitlement. The word bible comes from it’s place of writing, Byblos(pronounces Bible-ous). Byblos is the second oldest canaanite city, seconded by tyre, and succeeded by Beirut. The Bible comes from Canaan, not the smaller tribe of Canaan, Judah.
I love your channel! You stay objective, appealing to individuals of all beliefs to learn more. Citing your sources is a big bonus. Thanks for the well-made educational content!
It was David whomst received the Tanakh or Zabur as we addressed it in Islamic teaching. And yes, Yahweh does have a spouse because he sometimes could feel lonely too
@KNIGHT it's as unbiased as it can be. He is not pushing his beliefs, he is stating what he has studied. Every presentation has a certain bias it cannot be helped, but he does a good job on all his work.
Hmm probably. He collected all the documents, formed by centuries of tradition (mostly oral), compiled it and written it in a way for contemporary Israelites to understand.
You also can read the Quran/translation in english...as ISLAM,JUDAISM,CHRISTIANiTY..is From ABRAHAMIC FAITH.(PURE MONOTIESM) .. Its really Worth reading it..QURAN'😊
@@__foam you can at least get a bigger picture on Abrahamic Faith(jew,Christian,Islam) by looking at the History told in each Faith Scriptures/Holy Bible/TORAh/Quran..But anyway this only my suggestion to you..may you success in your study of Abrahamic faith and Chuches History..😊
I think the TORA is the work of a much older tradition, that began with the ATEN and an oral collection of the stories of Abraham, exodus, Mt. Sinai, Canaan, Israel, etc., compiled orally and manipulated, edited many times before put into writing.
Torah is the work of Indo-Europeans (Babylonians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Hitties) except the Book is told from a perspective of a select few who made it from all those civilizations. Possibly took traditions from those civilizations and created their own. It is all under the umbrella of Good VS Evil. That's why you hear a lot of egypt, babylon, etc., Bashing.
At least one survives: Unbeknownst to Jacob, Rachel stole her father's household gods or teraphim. When Laban caught up with them, he searched for the idols, but Rachel had hidden the statues under her camel's saddle. She told her father she was having her period, making her ceremonially unclean, so he did not search near her. Polygamy too: In the morning, Jacob discovered he had been tricked. Laban's excuse was that it was not their custom to marry off the younger daughter before the older one. Jacob then married Rachel and worked for Laban another seven years for her. Jacob loved Rachel but was indifferent toward Leah. God took pity on Leah and allowed her to bear children, while Rachel was barren. Jealous of her sister, Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife. By ancient custom, Bilhah's children would be credited to Rachel. Bilhah bore children to Jacob, causing Leah to give her servant Zilpah to Jacob, who had children with her. Altogether, the four women bore 12 sons and one daughter, Dinah. Those sons became the founders of the 12 tribes of Israel. Rachel bore Joseph, then the entire clan left Laban's country to return to Isaac.
@@nicolasbouyiouclis4726: Notice that this story containing polygamy and polytheism could have been told by desert Arabs who lived in the same region, but further south, proof of the antiquity of the story. Certainly before writing was invented, and probably embellished by storytellers. But it does seem to me that this is nearer to real life than David and Goliath, just because it is so messy.
Even if moses wrote TORA ,THERE IS STILL ALOT which was added after his death so you don't know for sure which part is added later and which is original
Love your show. One request is please use the word "proposal" for when someone is doing guess work. I understand different academic traditions us the word "theory" in a variety of ways but the anti-science movement's use of it to degrade the term from "the most proven foundation of a science" to "just a guess" has become rather toxic to society. Appreciated!
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The time and effort it takes you to put together first rate presentations- for those of us who are not scholars or students is wonderful! Think you!
This helps me a bunch because he cites sources, and I gotta write a paper, so thanks for him for doing that
I always think about this stuff when I hear people (American Evangelicals, mostly) say that every word of the Bible is literally true. Like... ok but which version each story? Why wouldn’t you acknowledge that fallible humans wrote the stuff down sometimes? It’s just so obvious if you look at the text...
Divine inspiration. Humans may not be perfect but the Bible still largely makes sense. Yahweh knows that humans are sinful, and that we are prone to error. But it's remarkable how well Yahweh's word has been preserved over so many generations and thousands of years, through oral and textual traditions.
I think the Bible has both spiritual and physical meanings behind its words, it's just in riddles because of one how many times it's been translated and two because of the fact the authors tried to hide a few things and that's been proven
@@clouds-rb9xt Do you have any proof for this "Divine Inspiration "?
As a religious person, I read the bible more for the meanings of the stories. There's definitely hyperbole and edits because of political reasons throughout history, but you can get the basics of what is intended if you are able to separate bits. It's impossible to tell which book is most accurate, but my assumption would be the Torah is the most accurate of the "old testament." It's frustrating when Americans or the English burn the world down to claim Christianity is more right than Judaism, or Islam is more correct than Christianity etc, cause it's all interrelated in some way shape or form lmao.
In a way everything is true. It was written by people trying to survive in a society of psychotic idiots just like we are today. There are definitely lessons and warnings to be learned from every religion. Like just be good to people and don’t be an a hole.
This is one of the clearest, most concise and most precise presentations of the documentary hypothesis with which I am familiar. Much better than the graduate - level scripture courses I've taken. Good work. Good teaching!
All Denominations, I tell you the Truth. Satan hated all our Father’s Creations & in particular, Us, so he came for me knowing if I lost the faith we were all gone, written in the Covenant of the Ark our Father gave us of which all left outside the Ark regret. When our Father presents me with something it usually means it’s for us all as it is with our Coat of Many Colours which sometimes you can see when the sun shines through the rain & a beautiful sight it is. When the Creator Isaac gave my Birth Right to Satan-Jacob later called Israel He gave him dominion over all on my Footstool & out of the flesh he slithered from one to another recruiting those that Stumbled & took much pleasure rearranging our scriptures. For thousands of years people have been born into Satanic madness which over time has intensified. All deceived, some desiring, relishing sin. I am Aaron of Judah, High Priest under our Father, guardian of the Ark & Judah is our Father’s Law. I am Moses, there were no stones to smash, it simply means the Law was broken. Our Father’s Law is engraved in the Rock of Ages, my soul & it was always Satan that was Blind. Everlasting peace, love & goodwill to all filled with the love of our Father await the faithful in the Promised Land, not war. When our Father said to me Ezekiel Son of Man I send you to the children of Israel I arrived on the 1st July, 1951, hair cut, blindfolded, gagged with no memory of before & no ability to think for myself. Our Father put Satan in my flesh & for 17 years examined my desires. Having left me, to stay a little longer he needed to get inside a flesh with the host accepting him for what he was. Trapped, he was dealt with in 1985 as I regained my Birth Right. Now, through our Father’s power my desire rules the Footstool. I bring people’s truth out in them, warn of the consequences of sin & call on sinners to repent. Satan’s desires compelled him to kill, deceive & brag which to him was all a “piss take” in the most grossly perverted of manners for he knew whatever the outcome between him & me he was always a dead man. Strangest of all, our Father’s Creation Mankind turned against the Creator, how do you fathom that. Satan called that on earth which is in the Heavens. Jerusalem is a beautiful place in the Heavens while here on earth it’s namesake should be the very place where peace, love & goodwill to all should flourish from yet how long has it been a war zone & he changed the name of it’s country to his own, Blasphemy-Israel. Scientists said they could not understand how so much radiation emits from the Black Hole but no light. Boys & girls, I give you my Word of Honour which it is to be our Father’s Messenger, His Word for all our sakes. Inside THEE CAVE is Thee Sea of Fire where rejects perish into Eternal Death Judgement Day. The Father saith, “Because you have forsaken My Law, I will melt you.” Satan knew where he was deceitfully leading those that abide with his Satanic scriptures from the Cave. Three times, 1 for each challenge Satan denied me before that cock crowed while here he used the true faith with rotten administrators to sin in my name. Santa is an anagram of Satan where he tries to indoctrinate the youngest into his ways on the very day people celebrate my birthday although I was born a long time before & not from woman. That Bastard had a field day turning brother against brother now come together with me for the love of our Father. Muslim, Jew, I admire your strength in faith very much but despise your faith for righteousness sake. Everyone put your strength of faith in me & you are home & dry for evermore filled with the love of our Father. Tempus Fugit boys & girls. CHRIST.
@@davidbarnes3262 David this was absolutely mind boggling and interesting. Can you summarize what you mean? This seems like lore no one has read before.
@@justinmcintire4980 Concisely then: Please, allow me to introduce myself;
I am he whose birth was Willed by the Creator. He then did the same with His Daughter. We were not born from woman & It was a long time after we were born with war in the Heavens that the Word became flesh. The Holy Spirit is our Father extending Himself. I am an extension of & One with the Creator, the Creation Man, not Creator. I am the Father's Mould for people. All lines come back to me & that's why our Father said only through me His Son can you reach the Kingdom of Heaven. I am the Creator’s Judge over all His children & that is why our Father Engraved His Law in His Mould’s Rock of Ages Soul. The Father is Thee Prophet. I am His Word, His Messenger, His Prophet. My Sword is my tongue.
People have been subjected to SATANIC INSANITY for a very long time & here’s the reason why;
Our Father’s Creation mankind turned against Him when Satan blasphemed.
Having accepted Satan’s 3 challenges the Father’s merciful benevolence came with a condition.
For myself, being One with the Creator was put on hold when our Father told me if I keep the faith all doing likewise will survive, if I don't all perish. When you trace a fault on a production line to the Mould all is discarded. Covenant of the Ark.
When my Father the Creator Isaac gave my Birth Right to the Greatest of all Deceivers Satan-Jacob later called Israel He gave him dominion over all on my Footstool. Life became a strict test of faith with Satan on the prowl. Hence, the worst words I ever spoke, Suffer Unto Me.
Out of the flesh the Swine recruited those that Stumbled & took much pleasure rearranging our SCRIPTURES to assist him turning brother against brother & belittling me to turn people against me & didn't he manage a real good job of it all, a boys & girls.
People insisting abiding with their beliefs preventing them accepting the Truth after being informed throughout the ages people have inadvertently studied that which is false having been indoctrinated into the falsehood from birth is so hugely disappointing & even more so with Everlasting Life at stake.
The book of Enoch says when Lamech’s son opened his eyes the whole house lit up. In the Bible the same says Light came into the World & here I am despised for revealing the sins of mankind.
@@justinmcintire4980 Little wonder then, with mankind being easily led rebellious sheep it was just a matter of time before Satan so easily imposed his Democracy upon the Father’s children turning state with it’s sinfully attractive freedoms against corrupted church convincing the sheep in their majority it was their legal right to rule over the Father as he did so.
Such are the desires of those that stray Democracy very happily & oh so easily accommodates itself for & with votes.
Consequently, millions upon millions of the Father’s very youngest are murdered as they lay helpless inside their mothers.
Democracy even questions the Father’s Creation of gender & eagerly encourages man to lay with man & woman to lay with woman along with it’s disgustingly filthy sex in dust try.
Democracy indoctrinates children into it’s Satanically retarded educational
system which is steadily destroying it’s own home with Democracy’s greedy Free Enterprise filth.
Democracy pushes it’s disease infested food, water & medical supplies upon the Father’s children & has continued to do so after I gave you the evidence in your British West Midland Police Operation Crossbow & again when your British Police raided a Scottish BBC studio in your Zircon Spy Satellite Affair where you were told Zir Con was getting you to collect all the evidence again after you lied about the Operation Crossbow evidence having gone missing.
Wrong Pharm. It does not Ceut mankind as on the contrary it’s violently detrimental to mankind's health.
Democracy stole the food out of the mouths of starving children taxing the
band & live aid collections & refused to hand over both seeds needed for food growth after being paid for both when the children of Ethiopia were deliberately herded into the desert & starved to death in their tens of thousands.
Against the will of the majority even, as behind the scenes the will of the people is meaningless, Democratically “elected” terrorists masquerading as democrats eagerly conspire to turn brother against brother for hate’s sake, to rule through fear, to impose their will on other states, to rule the roost over their own electorate, to sell their murderous filth to fund their pseudo Democratic disgrace & as always line their own blood stained pockets, etc etc etc.
Of late Democracy’s very own Satanic Illuminati terrorists have taken to moving Europeans around Europe disorientating them while they stampede Satan’s very own Islam into Europe & everywhere else whereupon Islam immediately sets about constructing it’s terrorist network where every mosque is the local FALSE PROPHET terrorists HQ.
Also of late Democracy sees to it that it’s High Tech disenfranchises voters that are not of the same disposition, although, from inception Democracy was always Satanically farcical.
@@justinmcintire4980 The Father made you all free to choose for yourselves & warned you all about making the wrong choices & I warned you in 1987 when the Father Heralded the Overturning of Free Enterprise the Father is in the process of Reestablishing His Law Over His Creation Mankind.
I warned you when the Piper Alpha oil rig exploded, the Father is the Piper that calls the Tune, I am Alpha & the oil was only for sale should you agree to take less & less in a manner that would cause no person any harm, you declined a lifeline.
I warned you when a ball of fire was seen shooting around the ticket office at Kings Cross, Death by Fire is the ticket for all the Father’s enemies.
I warned you of your Discovery when you become a Challenger to the
Father but you learnt nothing from the teacher I put aboard the shuttle.
I warned you of your desire to destroy my Footstool & live in outer space when I told you about the billions of gallons of toxic filth you pour into the waters daily from which CFC’s etc rise with the filth that forms the rain clouds but like iron filings to a magnet the CFC’s are drawn to two points, one directly above the North Pole the other directly above the South Pole where your toxins burn holes in the sky allowing the sun’s rays to shine through stronger causing Global Warming & the Ice Caps to melt. It took Satan a long time but you got there. Consequently, I told you there is No, Zero, 0 Zone you can hide from me & space is where you will perish for I Will Melt You saith the Father because you have forsaken MY LAW.
I warned you when Adam bit the Apple & Samson brought down those Pillars it is an EMERGENCY & I have warned you of much else many times before & since 9/11.
Democracy, with all that vote for Democracy in their “HEARTS” should a time arrive when my Father & myself are not One we will all perish but whether the Father & myself remain as One or not EITHER WAY DEMOCRACY YOU PERISH as your grossly perverted Satanic murderous way of life has deliberately set itself against the Creator constantly working at disrespecting the Father, constantly deceitfully reducing the population with your wars, a long list of diseases along with your free enterprise in dust trial home wrecking disgrace etc etc etc have all amounted to a most disgraceful departing Satanic failure.
Democracy & my ass is the Statue of Liberty & soon after it’s placement those that gave it to you also announced Ei-Ffel. Satan saw to all that.
This is not a request. The power you have & should never have taken & even more so wielded in such a horrendously disgraceful two faced manner over the Father’s children is being taken from you. Your grand speeches, military might & evil ways will be no more. Your reign of terror is over. Altogether you are less than a crippled fly to be swatted & swatted you will be.
Rare unfolding of a Beautifully, and intellectually discussed difficult subject, should be accepted by believers and nonbelievers alike. Congratulations to our narrator.
God damn
remove this verse from your quran and hadith first, my friend
The Qur'an calls Christians and Jews "the worst of creatures" (98:6) and commands you to violently subjugate us (9:29). Christians are being mercilessly persecuted in Muslim lands by your brothers and sisters. And you ask why we bother to respond? It's all out of hatred, right?
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
But you don't see anything hateful in what the Qur'an says about non-Muslims (for instance, when Allah says that he has no love for non-Muslims in 3:32)? And you have no objections to 4:34, 4:24, 5:51, etc.?
if you do not agree with me, then you are terrorist,
go in peace, my friend
from peace nobleist
@@seekkeith23 they want death to christians and the west in general
True love = the love of God!
*God himself went to the cross for you out of love for you as a human being*
Philippians 2:5-8
Great work! Especially how you focus on facts and you’re not biased, but rather you keep to the historical facts as they are available. Thank you
It's easy to overlook the fact that scholars have been approaching these subjects in this way for decades, given how loud the more biased voices among the faithful can be.
Fun occult fact: if u burn a black cat and put the ashes in your eyes, u can see the demon world that God put a veil on. Burning and sacrificing the black cat to lord Satan will remove the veil.
@@kingofdetroit358 liar. u owe me a cat
@@blueweegie6541 nope, this is a real ritual found in the necronomicon...I will try it one day
Stupid repetition without historical facts real! Study real to understand history: th-cam.com/video/ShaWeLvFjwk/w-d-xo.html
I enjoyed this brief and fair summary. I’d nuance two bits of it: 1., most scholars agree that those taken to Babylon in 586 BCE were the elites, mostly, not all the Judahites, regardless of what the texts say. It was common practice among many conquering peoples (the Assyrians were another example) to exile or sell the elites in order to subdue resistance and eradicate “high culture”; often, other people were then imported to replace them. 2., it’s generally agreed that the shift to a monotheistic cultus was not “pure." The Jerusalem Temple may have been restricted to the worship of one, unseen God; but the people's beliefs and practices were likely difficult to control -- thus, the need for the inclusion of all the opposition to such practices in the later editions of the texts. As more than one prominent historian has said: there's no need to strongly forbid something unless it's happening. A lot.
It's likely that, at least into the Hellenistic era, there were many Jews (the name change is accepted for post-586 BCE eras) who visited the shrines and holy places of others' deities, to show respect. In the ancient world, it was considered extremely rude to ignore the god(s) of the places and people one visits. Thus, many non-Jews respected the Jewish people as an ancient one, but considered their refusal to give other gods their due to be atheistic and downright rude. In fact, the term "atheist" was first lobbed at Jews and early Christians, because of their refusal -- more widespread by then -- to acknowledge other gods.
One prominent scholar of the Near East in Late Antiquity has asserted that there was no such thing as “pure monotheism” anywhere in antiquity, possibly not even during the Byzantine era. Given the persistence of beliefs in demons, lesser deities, spirits of the dead, angels, etc., into our own time, one could assert that pure monotheism is an ideal, but not real on the ground, so to speak.
This is true among Jews as well as other peoples. See the persistence among Jews of amulets, talismans, appeals to angels and warding-off of demons, down to the present. Jews wore -- and wear -- the hamsa, a charm used to ward off the evil eye among many peoples throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere; the mezuzah, a tiny portion of scripture encased in a container and attached to the doorposts of buildings, is popularly thought to keep the premises safe -- despite assertions by rabbis that this is superstition, and was only intended to remind people of God as they come and go. The mezuzah or mezuzah-like pendants are popularly worn around the neck, for similar reasons. We can call it superstition, but on some level, it's a belief system.
BTW I’ve encountered a number of Jewish women who are very drawn to the Christian figure of Mary. The adoration of the Shekhinah/Sabbath Bride became popular among Jewish mystics in the 13th century (as seen in the Zohar and later texts), and possibly earlier. This practice closely parallels the era of the growing celebration of Mary among European Christians, especially during the troubadour period, and the spread of cathedral building during the European Middle Ages.
The great Rabbi Yosef Caro, author of the still-authoritative Jewish law code, the Shulchan Aruch (16th century), described being “visited” by an angelic teacher (a "magid") who imparted mystical and other insights to him. And on and on.
So the argument for a purity of monotheism is flimsy, at best. We humans love our unseen forces.
Historian212- You are way to historically accurate for this thread :). I will add though that Hebrews struggled with polytheism right through the first temple period as evidenced in the multiple names for God with uncanny similarities to the Canaanite deities (eg Baal) as evidenced in The Hebrew Bible. It wasn't until the second temple period when monotheism was dogmatized and ensconced in the narrative when the Hebrew Bible was compiled and canonized.
Great, detailed retort to the fallacy of monotheism; and poor Mary, she had to embody ALL the female attributes previously associated to a multitude of goddesses in polytheistic traditions.
@@Alkes777 and that was due to their exposure to Zoroastrianism while exiled in Babylon.
I have spent my life being fascinated by religion as a cultural phenomenon, and also in searching for the true nature of spirituality as it underpins the meaning of life. This man is benefiting me greatly. No didacticism, no guru delusion, no ego - just the facts and theories stated with commendable lucidity. The fact that we don't even know his name gives us a reason to trust and listen to him. I'm watching one video a night and learning a lot.
Then Ill make it short for you.
Islam will find you.
@@amn1560Darth vader will find you first
Just to say I’ve found your channel today and I absolutely love it! History and religious history absolutely fascinates me and I wish I did it at university but instead I got my doctorate in quantum physics at Cambridge University (subject that I love too) but I did look at going back to study one of these subjects but family matters happened and I couldn’t do it. I have heard of Yahweh once having a wife/female partner and a personal theory of mine is that when the early Jews were taken back to Babylon (who’s own religious beliefs come down from the earlier Sumerians) adopted some of the Babylonian/Sumerian’s beliefs into their own even though they were still allowed to practice their own beliefs (Jewish beliefs). The stories of Adam & Eve and Noah come from Sumerian sources and the word “Eden” is in fact Sumerian meaning “wild land” that has not been cultivated by man (though many cultures around the world have flood stories which I believe have been passed down orally for thousands of years from the Younger Dryas 11,600yrs ago). Like I said a personal theory
"The jews adopting some Babylonian beliefs".... Wow that's a really plausible theory, I've never thought of it like that. Really interesting.
@@ezrakim1323 actually the book of Malachi in the bible confirm this ..
Some of the Jews back then (in The Babylonian Exile period) did fell into some pagan practises of the people there. Some fell bcs of their pagan spouses ask them pay respect to their gods and some other fell for cultural and social causes .. The book of Malachi especially rebuke those jews bcs of this misbehaviour ..
I have fallen now down the rabbit hole and its been so interesting. I also believe your opinion is most likely a correct one.I am now reading the Torah for the second time.
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I've always found strange the fact that the torah supposed to be written by moses contains his death's story.
Now i have an explanation, he didn't.
Yes. The story of Moses’ death was one of the biggest clues that first helped scholars to realize the first 5 books could not have been written by Moses. For some additional textual clues, try reading here: sites.google.com/site/investigatingchristianity/home/otchrono#LateAuthorship
@@historian96 thanks for the useful link. It is so detailed and rich in explanation.
@Ryan DeGrave it's sadly true.
@Ryan DeGrave good point!
Of course he didn't,but religious people just claim that Joshua wrote that part.
I am a Mosiem, and got confused regarding the Holy books of the Jews and the Christians. You gave explicit details and explained it very comprehensively. Very well presented. Thanks. 🤗
Thanks for reading.
I am Mosiem tuu
@@onkelirohsjasmintee5613 Alhumdul Lillah.
Are you the presenter of this programme?
@@shabbanzaidi8795 yes
@@onkelirohsjasmintee5613 it's nice to correspond with you. You put in a lot of effort in your presentations. Please keep up the good work🤗and God bless you. 🙏.
I really enjoy your presentations...I just finished the one on the Jinn. Thank you for all the research you have done for these. You are a very good teacher.
Jesus Christ my miraculous healer who took away my chronic years long nightly breathing issue instantly in an anointed prayer, cares about you 😊
Judaism have a long tradition of debating among Jewish theologians. So I guess it i logical to conclude that the texts changed according to what ever interpretation of any given idea was strongest at that moment.
I don't know why while writing this I have this mind picture of Diogenes crashing a lecture at Plato's academy with a plucked chicken.
Behold! A human.
Does genises 2 can be contrasted with Zoroastrians or the Egyptian and the lesser deities of the Greeks
You have become my favoured bedtime story narrator. The work you have put in your videos are amazing, and I humbly offer my thanks and appreciation. Who knew Sweeds could be this smart. Blessings from your oil nation brother, just across the border.
"No religion can saved us.. There was no religion specified in the Holy Bible that can saved us but loving God with whole body, mind, Heart and soul can saved us. Meaning you and only God can saved us. Goodluck. "
The mural relief you showed was of the Romans carrying away the contents of the Temple in Jerusalem after they sacked it and left ‘no stone atop another’
The arch of Titus.
The more I read about it, the more saddened I feel when I see it used to visualize the Judean people.
@@p.bamygdala2139 that proves there was a Jewish Kingdom/State 2000 years ago. Jewish people is indigenous to the State of Israel.
@@claudioborton4394 or modern days Yemen as the Torah stories could never have happened in Palestine/Levant.
@@elfarramohamedriad 😂😂😂
@@p.bamygdala2139 why, when it was Israel doing the conquering they murdered the entire population if the Bible is to be believed
Your account of Torah and Jews religion is very accurate .
Hope humans understand these factual narrations, and revive humanity, which has been lost in the horizon.
What a great channel :) I really appreciated your closing remarks. That for a lot of people, textual contradictions are not what is important in relation to the stories and their teachings. Maintaining neutrality is difficult when talking about scripture, but I think you do a good job!
All Denominations, I tell you the Truth. Satan hated all our Father’s Creations & in particular, Us, so he came for me knowing if I lost the faith we were all gone, written in the Covenant of the Ark our Father gave us of which all left outside the Ark regret. When our Father presents me with something it usually means it’s for us all as it is with our Coat of Many Colours which sometimes you can see when the sun shines through the rain & a beautiful sight it is. When the Creator Isaac gave my Birth Right to Satan-Jacob later called Israel He gave him dominion over all on my Footstool & out of the flesh he slithered from one to another recruiting those that Stumbled & took much pleasure rearranging our scriptures. For thousands of years people have been born into Satanic madness which over time has intensified. All deceived, some desiring, relishing sin. I am Aaron of Judah, High Priest under our Father, guardian of the Ark & Judah is our Father’s Law. I am Moses, there were no stones to smash, it simply means the Law was broken. Our Father’s Law is engraved in the Rock of Ages, my soul & it was always Satan that was Blind. Everlasting peace, love & goodwill to all filled with the love of our Father await the faithful in the Promised Land, not war. When our Father said to me Ezekiel Son of Man I send you to the children of Israel I arrived on the 1st July, 1951, hair cut, blindfolded, gagged with no memory of before & no ability to think for myself. Our Father put Satan in my flesh & for 17 years examined my desires. Having left me, to stay a little longer he needed to get inside a flesh with the host accepting him for what he was. Trapped, he was dealt with in 1985 as I regained my Birth Right. Now, through our Father’s power my desire rules the Footstool. I bring people’s truth out in them, warn of the consequences of sin & call on sinners to repent. Satan’s desires compelled him to kill, deceive & brag which to him was all a “piss take” in the most grossly perverted of manners for he knew whatever the outcome between him & me he was always a dead man. Strangest of all, our Father’s Creation Mankind turned against the Creator, how do you fathom that. Satan called that on earth which is in the Heavens. Jerusalem is a beautiful place in the Heavens while here on earth it’s namesake should be the very place where peace, love & goodwill to all should flourish from yet how long has it been a war zone & he changed the name of it’s country to his own, Blasphemy-Israel. Scientists said they could not understand how so much radiation emits from the Black Hole but no light. Boys & girls, I give you my Word of Honour which it is to be our Father’s Messenger, His Word for all our sakes. Inside THEE CAVE is Thee Sea of Fire where rejects perish into Eternal Death Judgement Day. The Father saith, “Because you have forsaken My Law, I will melt you.” Satan knew where he was deceitfully leading those that abide with his Satanic scriptures from the Cave. Three times, 1 for each challenge Satan denied me before that cock crowed while here he used the true faith with rotten administrators to sin in my name. Santa is an anagram of Satan where he tries to indoctrinate the youngest into his ways on the very day people celebrate my birthday although I was born a long time before & not from woman. That Bastard had a field day turning brother against brother now come together with me for the love of our Father. Muslim, Jew, I admire your strength in faith very much but despise your faith for righteousness sake. Everyone put your strength of faith in me & you are home & dry for evermore filled with the love of our Father. Tempus Fugit boys & girls. CHRIST.
Beautiful post, but no way he could cover the entire topic, which is truly mesmerizing. There are ancient political factors, regional variants, foreign influences, and if you read closely you can see the idea of the Hebrew God evolve, from a tribal war god to king of the Universe.
YesEnlil,asyrian god evolved to elohim later jahve,the destroyer!
The bottom line; we don't know.
We don’t know the author, and on top of that millions of contradictions, NUMERICAL contradictions, and a flawed logic. How do you follow a book that has millions of versions, doesn’t that show you the true book wasn’t protected, how would you know which one is true? And no authors for any of them? Oh I’ll tell you their authors, the Christians themselves.
That's what's amazing in the humanities at large. Not knowing the answer doesn't hinder the development of the hypothesis that push the field forward.
We should know enough to be skeptical.
That's the worlds largest kept secret , No one knows. In fact that's the only thing which keeps the people trusting the powers.
Don't follow man for that very reason: for they do not know with certainty where they are going.
I just love democracy
I'm really enjoying this channel. You're giving "Religion for Breakfast" some great competition!
If you're taking requests, I'd really like to hear more about the morphing of Judaism into Christianity in its earliest days, from the Hasmonian Dynasty with its apocalyptic cults and Qumran writers, up to Rabbat Johanan ben Zakkai and his students, and their replacement of sacrifice with deeds and prayer for the atonement of sin in place of the lost Temple.
And, your recommended scholarly reading on this time period.
Thanks!
I cannot tell you how grateful I am to have come across your channel. I had been listening to another channel that mentioned gnoisism when I realized though I've heard the term many times, didn't really know what it meant. When I dug deeper, of course your video on it came up and I absolutely loved your quality research and delivery. From there I binged all of your videos on the so-called Gnostic texts, and finally decided I needed to just subscribe but go back to your oldest work and work my way forward because I want to learn everything you're teaching through your videos. Thank you so much for creating all of these videos, they're absolutely fascinating and well done. You also have one of the most soothing voices and accents I've ever heard so I could listen to you talk all day. Blessings to you. It's brightened up my last couple days to listen to you in my headphones while I go about otherwise dull daily activities. Everything you're covering is so beyond fascinating!! 😊🩵
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I have been watching every video of this channel. This is the most comprehensive treatise on religion that's both engaging and informative. Cant recommend it enough. Good job!
Speaking purely from a linguist's perspective, the Torah is written in a number of language varieties, whose differences from each other go far beyond differences of style. Differences in the inflection of verbs give the impression that some passages are of much greater antiquity than others. As I am not a theologian, I will not speculate as to why this should be so.
you could link and add to this. keep up the good work
I really love your videos! Your presentation style is rationally presented as a means of learning, and I really love that.
The Ancient Rabbis wrote the words of Moses according to their own understanding, will , policy and added mythical stories to it,
even made changes to it , to please the kings of that period .
Mythical?
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Of course, for example:
God had wrestling with Jacob for hours, then God tells Jacob: your name is Israel from now .
What was necessary to wrestling?
No difference between Christians and Jews , when they believe that God came in human body and had wrestling with Jacob.
At least , Christians say that God came to lead people, not for wrestling.
@@susandidary9646 that’s truth it was symbolic that Israel wrestled God for a Blessing and Remember were made in God image so it wasn’t a Human form it was just God
@@uhhh604 Yes, because the standard for writing "history" was different in those days. Mostly allegorical, like Aesop's Fables, the point was the moral to the story, not the "events".
@@susandidary9646 actually that was supposed to have been an angel
As you know, I love your work here on TH-cam, Filip! I'm going to recommend this one to my Religious Studies students.
With my respect what do you mean Religious studies students? Is it an university or something like that
@@rahimerayane4298 I am assuming that it's a course in a university
The task was to explain something scientific and complex in terms understandable for a broad audience without oversimplyfying, and he did that well
I doubt that the writers of the Torah even knew about the scientific method.
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I enjoy your talks and get a good perspective on different Faith's. Thank you
How many talks have you presented?
Is there a way to get them ?
Why would people even dislike this video?? I mean, he's as objective as one can be
that could be why 😂
I am Catholic (lay minister) and teach Bible. Nothing you said contradicts my introductory class. The Bible must be first understood as literature then in light of the faith and times if one so chooses. Your approach is very respectful. I trust the info you share about religions completely unknown to me to be equally objective. Thanks.
Ok.
I have to wonder whose story we are reading. I have read the Epic of Gilgamesh and found a few stories the same as in the Torah. The is a seven year bounty and famine in Gilgamesh similar to the story in Genesis of Joseph preparing Egypt for the same conditions.
also the flood (deluge).
Some of the psalms bear striking resemblance to Atenist poetry (ancient Egyptian monolatry)
@@changer1285 what i found out about people and even religion, they are kinda lazy and like to steal ideas. What, easter ? Well of course that's christian holiday, no way did they try appease pagans so they don't bitch about not having nothing to celebrate that day. Reminds me, out of 875 re-imaginations of dracula- just in movies, which is your favorite ? Because if i asked about god, people would get more mad then about favorite version of dracula, and future generations will have their version... like Twillight uh.
@@Enkabard none of us really know which religion is correct and by how many religions they are that's crazy to think about, maybe there isn't even a "right" religion at all.
@@CRXW. agree, just following the evolution of religion makes it clear there isn't much truth to neither.
1)We started of in stone age believing anything we cant explain is god- fire, sun, rain.
2)Then we stepped up before ancient times to believing more abstract things are god, like War, Love, Cash is god, cause we knew what sun or fire is long time ago.
3)Then we had to scrap that because we realized what chemicals in our brains are some time BC. so newly god is one invisible dude who is just chilling in the sky, punishing people for fun.
4)But now we reached point that we know in the sky there is universe and no bearded guys having fun with jesus in there so basically if you ask people in modern time, for them "god" is force in the universe, just unknown power that really doesnt exist, but leads fate of everything somehow... i think we reached absurd level of religion cause there is really nowhere to step down to accommodate religion and human knowledge at same time.... maybe like Scientology but that's just stupid.
Humans have always had an amazing ability to tell fascinating stories. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that we will ever really know what level of truth these stories contain and most of them are probably fiction. The literature that contains these stories is also fascinating and written by some of the most wises and influential men at the time. Throughout the centuries, the literature has been used to conquer, dominate and control humans. Sometimes for the better but, often times for the worst.
Couldn’t have said it better.🤐
I totally agree.
Curious CAT Ph Yes my drill sergeant had a better take on life:The universe rewards the valiant...life is firm but fair.🤐take care.
It's strange how we seem to think ancient people had no concept of fiction and metaphor and we try to interpret their writings as literal
June L absolutely ancient people never get enough credit...
thank you from a 80 year old inquisitive learner you make it so easy to follow from a very difficult subject. Thank you took me a long time to find you, never to old to lean.blessings d❤
Very informative and well constructed video. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
I would argue against the idea that most Christians don't care whether the events of the Bible are historically true (although my view may be biased by having grown up in American Evangelicalism, so that branch of Christianity is the norm I'm used to). Many Christians (IME) believe that the Bible is the revealed word of God, and their adherence to its rules is based on that belief. If they cease to believe that, for instance, the Torah was given to Moses by God, then their belief in the teachings of the Torah may be greatly shaken. They don't even have to be absolutely fundamentalist, or believe in an entirely literal reading of things like the six-day creation story to believe that the authority for their faith rests on the (historical) Truth of fundamental parts of the Bible, like Moses' reception of the Torah on Mt Sinai.
I'd say Jews in general tend to care way less than Evangelical Christians about the historicity of the stories. Catholics in my experience care less also.
Great video.
My second of yours.
Looking forward to more.
Thanks for the unobjective lessons.
One of my favorite interpretations of the creation of mankind in Gen 1 & 2 is that what God created--the Adama, or earthling made of clay and imbued with life via the breath of God--was not "a man," but rather a creature that was neither male nor female--or, perhaps was both. As such, this being initially carried with it the whole of what humanity is, regardless of sexual roles. This seems (to me) to be a more generous interpretation of what God is, if His creation was created in His image: God is not a male, not some heavenly analog of a man, but is instead a representation of the human-kind. An interpretation of creating woman from from the Adama that is a more poetic interpretation than the traditional one where she is created from a rib extracted from the Adama, is one in which she is originally a part of the Adama that is separated (perhaps at the rib, as if they were like conjoined twins, say) from Adam.
Another (major) thing that (I think) makes this such a beautiful interpretation is that the sex act becomes an act of imitatio dei--imitating God to create life, a feature that is uniquely God-like.
Written 3000 year's before the bible
Eden is mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh as the garden of the Gods and was supposedly located somewhere between the Rivers Tigris and the Euphrates in ancient Mesopotamia. Eden is an ancient Sumerian word which means ‘flat terrain’.
What is extremely interesting in the ancient Sumerian Creation Story is the fact that initially, man created by the Gods was not able to reproduce on their own. This is why the Gods ‘MODIFIED’ mankind with the help of Enki and his sister Ninki. After the Gods had modified mankind, Adapa was created as a fully functional human being which had the ability to reproduce. However, this ‘modification’ was done without being approved by Enlil, brother of Enki and Ninki, which created a conflict among the Gods.
The conflict made Enlil the first adversary of human beings and according to ancient Sumerian texts, mankind went through an extremely difficult time while serving the gods.
So much *plagiarizing* in the bible
Image of God could be interpreted as God giving us authority over the world like how he has authority over all creation
@@fordprefect5304 I wouldn't call it plagiarizing at all, but rather their own take on stories and myths that existed in the Middle East. In fact you could almost call it localisation.
The meaning of the word Adama is Earth not earthling. Very different from the word Adam which literally means Man.
Ben Adam, means son of man. In other words, human.
In the Torah it says that Adam was created from the Earth and Eve was created from his rib. So that he would understand she's an extention of him, of the same flesh and blood.
@@seriouslyinsanediva According to the Sumerian story “Enki and Ninmah,” the lesser gods, burdened with the toil of creating the earth, complained to Namma, the primeval mother, about their hard work. She in turn roused her son Enki, the god of wisdom, and urged him to create a substitute to free the gods from their toil. Namma then kneaded some clay, placed it in her womb, and gave birth to the first humans.
*Written thousands of years before the bible.*
Most excellent. You are a very trusted source for information. You are concise and on topic. Something I struggle with, but am working on. Thank you
Find and listen to Mauro Biglino on YT,what he discovered who are the elohim gods!
Awesome explanation, I really admire how you break it down. Keep up the good work
The documentary hypothesis has been shown to be not true by archaeology.
1.The worlds oldest alphabets are not from Phoenicia like previously thought, but found in the Sinai, and dated from the time Moses and the people of Israel would have been on the Exodus (proto-Sinaitic/Hebrew). "
2. It is widely known among Orthodox Jews who read the Mishna (written 10-220 AD) and the Talmud (70-520 CE) that the last 8 verses of Deuteronomy were written by Joshua, and the whole Torah was recompiled by Ezra in the 2nd Temple period. The creators of the documentary hypothesis formed this by using logical Western European models instead of Jewish culture/Archaeology/ and historical sources from Rabbi's. Traditional Judaism has 70 names for G-d, they describe his attributes, much like we can call a king a ruler, head of state, monarch etc.
I wish all TH-camrs would be as clear and precise as u . Great work Bro
I have seen too many people who are very religious at the same time haters, racists etc. I have concluded that all I need is to practice the three commendments/principles of the Zoroastrian without conveting. I don't need anything more to be good in this world to be kind and service to otheres :
"Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good deeds!"
I appreciate that you shared this video; thank you.
The part about the first two chapters of Genesis reminded me of a conversation that I had with my dad when I was a child. He told me that there were two distinctly different creation stories in the Bible-- that these chapters were somewhat contradictory. I respectfully disagreed (and still do). To me, the first chapter of Genesis simply lays out a basic outline and time frame for what happened during creation, while the second chapter gets into the details in a more personal way. It would be quite difficult to merge the two in any manner that would be reasonably easy to follow. So, when I read it, I see a very deep and poetic story conveying the occurrences concerning the creation of our earth 🌎, and possibly even the beginning of time (as we conceive it to be)-- not two separate and conflicting accounts. I don't recall any disparate details.
Shabanzaid. Quran has many conflicts too. These books are not from ALMIGHTY wen yu read Conflicting scriptures
The monotheism and the concept of heaven and hell, came from their liberators in their babylonian captivity, under Cyrus the Great who was a zoroastrian
I've thought for years that the first 2 chapters of genesis are 2 different creation stories, but unlike what you said I've always thought genesis 1 is the older
Genesis 1 is the creation of heaven and earth. Genesis 2 is the creation of the garden of Eden which was a local creation billons of years later.
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@@daviderman5931 Uh... The Bible *_Itself_* would disagree with you, but I of course assume *YOU* know better than the actual book itself.
@@James-iu2km I take the Bible literally. In Genesis 2 the creation week is over. Whom do you believe? Gen. 2.17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die....
Or do you believe this? Gen.3:4b-5 "You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
And disbelieve this? Ezekiel 18L20 "The soul who sins is the one who will die...."
Or do you believe the lie of Genesis 3:4-5? "When he (Satan) speaks a lie, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44).
Do you believe you're going to heaven and others are already in torments? "You shall not surely die" equals "the doctrine of the immortality of the soul." Or do you gloss over Ezekiel 18? The precious hope of an immediate heavenly reward is desired by those who adopt this Platonic doctrine as Bible Truth. Was the apostle JOhn wrong when he wrote "No man has ascended into heaven except for He who came down from heaven, even the Son of Man Who is in heaven" (John 3.13).Yep, the devils deception disguished as assurance of a heavenly home immediately after death rather than a paradise in the coming Kingdom of God on Earth. Who do you believe? The Father and the Son or the father of lies?
If you visit some mountaintops you can find shells and fossilized plant and animal life that lived in the seas. peace
I really enjoy your channel. Religion for Breakfast, Religiosity Plus, and Let's talk Religion are my absolute favorites!
All religion is man made. The most High GOD only gave his chosen Nation of people law's, statutes and commandments to live by. peace
according to Jewish interpretation "Elohim" is the plural word for Yahweh attributes and powers manifested. EL or ELOH is singular and when adding the "IM" it becomes plural. Elohim is also associated with angels who are like the ambassadors of those attributes.
for example in the Hebrew bible, Exodus Chapter 7:1 both words appear in one verse: "And the LORD (Yahweh/יהוה) said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in God's (Elohim/אלוהים) stead to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet." in this verse God/Yahweh does not make Moses God but grant him the status of "Gods attributes"/ELOHIM in the eyes of pharaoh.
Very interesting! I had not heard of this interpretation.
@@LetsTalkReligion This is a common arguement in Christianity for the doctrine of the Trinity in many Christian denominations
@Yousef Ghaneemah can you expand more on this? Is it mainly in a dialect of arabic or fus-ha Arabic
Yes very interesting
That’s why I call God The Elohim and not just Elohim
Answer: "some jews"
Lol
@Anony Mouse what the fuck are you talking about
@@samuelpollock2572 he's a Nazi is what he's saying.
Yes ... and the etymology for the word "Jew", or "Iewe" dates to one of many papal revolutions to the 12th C CE ....
@@changer1285 haha loser, everyone you disagree with is a Nazi no doubt, can't imagine being that much of an idiot. You're weak.
I just discovered and subscribed to your channel, I really appreciate it! I found you while researching the gnostic gospels which I just read for the first time. I am very curious how/why the gnostic gospels were rejected from the cannon. Do you have any suggestions for content for me to better understand this historical process? Thank you!
very interesting, looking forward to next talk
All races are mixed with other races, all languages are related to many other languages, all religions are borrowed from other religions. The process is going to continue.
@margaret Wherever you are you are mixed. Peoples from the Steppes or from Arab peninsula or from sub Saharan Africa even the Eskimos.
@margaret Nobody is trying. It already happened over past thousands of years.
Blame horses or hunger or verdant lands.
susanta Deb your right expect not all religions are borrowed.
@@chriskarsseboom2200 We have been building Taj Mahal for our dead beloved since the dawn of humanity.
I really wish you talked more about whether the old testament was influenced by zoroastrianism or other religious beliefs that they would have been more heavily exposed to while in exile. Your explanation of the Hebrews transition from monolatry to more monotheistic views is great, but more detail into whether or not other aspects of Judaism were influenced by other cultures and religions would have been better.
One of the most interesting influences from Zoroastrianism is the introduction of the devil as a true foil/opponent that has been more prominently retained in Christianity instead of modern strains of Judaism. Ha-satan in older texts is actually an agent of God and a proper modern translation that would capture the meaning is arguably prosecutor (AKA a proper role within the court of God and not a cosmic evil being)
Great video. Your channel is going to grow. Very engaging and educational.
One thing I heard at marker 3:20 is that we have "no real evidence" but that is why it is called Faith. Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Thanks so much for your clear and succinct summary. Much appreciated 🙏
After doing research i am glad that all of these religions are man made..
And the concept of the hell is man made
Jewish people have a different understanding of hell
All religion were Invented to stop the Poor from killing the rich
Prove to me the Qur’an is false.
@@petecarroll3949 the New testimate tells the poor to rise up and the poor are special instead of the heirchy?
Well in most Bible’s
@@ajthebestguy9th The Qu'ran is certainly a real book. The historic and supernatural claims in it are what is demonstrably false.
Thanks for objective presentation of the troubling past of our lives 🙏
Can we get the sound of file of that dulcimer track at the beginning?
The Torah is what started my path to atheism. As a young child, god and his angels killing innocent babies really bothered me. But the adults found inspiration in that.
God can't murder anyone because he is the owner and giver of life, and if you believe Christianity to be true, people dont really "die" they just change "places".
The text may have been corrupted. Truth mixed with falsehood.
Me too! ESPECIALLY the story of Sodom and Ghamora (spelling???)!!! Whoa!!! Offering his daughters up for gang rape and then in turn, them getting him drunk so they could rape their father!!! If that is even possible cuz let me tell you.... if these girls really existed and were in fact, impregnated by their father, I am 99.99999999% certain that the explanation given in Genesis isn’t entirely accurate!!! I’d believe it if it were the other way around, but regardless of one’s morals here, I’m pretty sure that the logistics are physically improbable since the male equipment is usually pretty useless for baby making after heavy alcohol consumption or while the owner of it is asleep! Then, as you mentioned, the whole killing rampage thing where they are instructed by god to kill everyone in town except for the virgins (more specifically, “the women children who have never laid with a man”), whom they were told to take as wives for themselves. I, personally, would refer to these young girls as victims of slavery and child abuse rather than as “wives” though! So yeah- A LOT of atheists become atheists just by reading the Bible. Not only does it contradict itself many many times and no one even seems to know who even physically wrote it and yet we’re also expected to trust completely that these mystery authors were actually being spoken to by god himself. (Even tho God never seems to do it when anyone else is around in order to corroborate!) but all the talk of slavery, sexism, genocide, etc etc. is just NOT what a supreme, all knowing, all loving god would ever choose to share with his people. It’s just not. It’s OBVIOUS! And then... all the issues and variations due to translating in from and into various different languages! It’s downright ridiculous.
Interestingly, scholarly research suggests David did not slay Goliath, but an individual named Elhanan did. If the ancients could modify the Torah to say this it should make you wonder what else was modified.
Well God did give Pharoah many chances.
_How can you say, we are wise, for we have the law of the Lord, when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?_ - Jeremiah 8:8
That pretty much says it all doesn't it?
God made the law for us to live in a moral society. Those who follow His Commandments will be rewarded with a good life and peaceful existence during their lifetime while He punishes those who break his laws. Wise men could easily recognize between good and evil deeds. If they choose the latter, then they have to pay the price.
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@@tiyopaeng2425 God made the law to teach the nature of sin and grace, as a disciplinarian for the spirituality weak until an age when he would reveal the way to spiritual maturity.
@@tiyopaeng2425 a moral society when god itself was immoral
Glad to have discovered you🎉
What song is uses in this video?
Salam could you please mention the name of the music starting from 2:01?
I actually made that music for this video :)
and I thought you are just a good historian .... a big WOW on your style and music as well.
Thanks a lot :)
Incredible you just created masterpiece
@@dd615 Indeed. I wish he could upload the full piece someday or share the link with us :)
Thank You for addressing the controversy. Many leave that part out. While getting my Religion Major in college the JEDP sources and Documentary Hypothesis were the Gold Standard among Biblical scholars. Today there are more and more challenging that view as outdated.
Because it is
What’s the little snip of music at the beginning of the video? 😊
Beautifully explained in an unbiased manner. Keep it up.
Unbiased? There’s only one way to look at this if you have a brain. It’s fiction.
Thank, this was very helpful! I have been struggling with this concept of biblical facts for a few years now. Whether factual or not; the important thing is the message or lessons the writings convey.
Not much of value in there, is there? Smiting, vengeance, incest, rape, on and on.
@@unme4728 What your problem with people melting down ore to make tools?
@@unme4728 Yep - the book is human, don't you agree? It does not appear to be like the so called unscriptural New Testament that tends to avoid such words. Love it or leave it - The Torah is against - the list of vices you indicated. However, the Torah does not prevent you from acting wickedly. It is similar to our laws and constitutions - that are full of morals but prisons are filled with every law breaker you can imagine. If people commit crimes we don't conclude, that the King or President is mad or irrational. The criminal is to blame and not the law makers. Same with Bible - sinners walk in every street - but that does not make the Torah evil.
I often wonder how much variation in the stories crept in from translation to translation. Abraham would have told the stories in Chaldean, his descendants would have used Canaanite, the slaves would have spoken Egyptian, later it would have been Canaanite again, finally Hebrew. Some words and phrases would not translate exactly, so substitutes would have to be used.
You are very close to the truth , which language did Moses and his followers speak or read ,?
And would God send a message to the people in a language they never knew anything about it ?
Doesn't this explain why it took them such a long time to write it ?
It took them a thousand years to come up with what we see now.
@@ahmadalminyawi8400 Moses spent 40 years in the Palestine area, so likely knew that language. If he was educated as a prince, he could very well have known other tongues as well. But the slaves would have known only Egyptian, since they and their parents were raised in that language.
@@amadeusamwater he only spend ten years in Palsten as shepherd , where there was no schools .
Sorry I can't except your argument.
@@ahmadalminyawi8400 Moses died at 120 after 40 some years in the Exodus, so he must have been somewhere between 70 and 80 when he came back to Egypt. He had to have spent some decades of that in Midian.
THATS WHY ,CHAIN OF PHROPHETS KEPT COMING TO STEER THE HUMANS BACK TOWARD GOD.
I've watched this video many times but not with headphones on... And I just noticed how great the music is in this... Short but great 👍
Hello Filip. I really enjoy your presentations. Many years ago I read a book called God: a biography. Written by Jack Miles in 1995. It was very interesting and I wonder if his treatment of the source texts meshes with the four sources theory? I'll have to read it again....
The most interesting thing it’s Middle Eastern origin and the first Jewish and Christians were Middle Eastern which later on Romans fraud it and changed it a lot
@Daren Fliflet Romans were hard core pagans.
Muslim Believes in Torah, Zabur, And Injeel beside Quran. But these were not Biography about Prophets, but morals, and judgements by God given to Respective Prophets to make ruling and judgements among themselves.
Muslims believe that both Jewish and Christian scriptures were CORRUPTED! Whether it was on purpose is debated among Muslim scholars. Which parts were changed is also debated. All parts that support Islamic doctrine, dogma and ideology are believed to be true, accurate unchanged ,uncorrupted.😉
Since there are DIFERRENCES this proof of corruption non revealation to a Muslim! 😁
@@owlnyc666 Allah clearly told Muslims that Pervious generations people wrote into God's book and selling for small profit as Money, Power, Supremacy, getaways from Punishments. And told us that Quran is Acid test for all those books to makeout True from False acclaimed words to be from God.
All books has certain truth and without it, those books will be just a book and nothing more for readers as everything requires certain truth to stand on and corruption is Ruling and thanking that divert people from Following Truth.
@@owlnyc666 The person who don't read and understand their own book, and could not accept the countless numbers of Revisions, Addition, Subtraction, and rejection of other similar text.
These don't need Upgrade/correction
@@Malik_are_Kings you know that Koran was written many years after death of your "prophet"
your vids are so good and i dont say that often keep it up man!
I would love to see you do "Who wrote the Torah?", since that would cover the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and also the surprising role of the Abbasid Caliphate in its development. Your existing videos on Judaism jump from the earliest history of Judaism to a much later period.
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Excellent presentation. Clear and enlightening.
Job has a passage in it referring to "I am a companion to owls and a brother to dragons". I have only ever seen it in a very old KJV! At some point, apparently, the dragon was changed, being too serpentlike.
I've googled but can't find if the dragon is in the Torah, and I know no scholars to ask.
Can you find out?
Take a look at John Kostik, youtube a Hebrew teacher.
What's the time-line from receipt of the Ten Commandments and the Babylonien Captivity ?
2:47 painting name please
I think your viewers would love a video about the earliest artefacts for the Hebrew Bible and what they show about easiest versions of the texts.
Plus a corresponding video on the gathering and sélection (and omission) of texts for the earliest Christian bibles.
On the Jewish artifacts, check videos featuring prominent archaeologist/historian Israel Finkelstein (I've outlined a tiny bit in response to another person in the comments here). He represents a middle-road perspective on the early Israelites. He's not a "believer," in that he's not about proving or disproving the Bible. In fact, he's been opposed by religious Jews and Christians for some of his views. He co-authored a revolutionary popular book in the early 2000s called "The Bible Unearthed," which shifted many people's ideas about (a) the historicity of the people who came to be known as the Israelites, the Judahites, and later, the Jews; and (b) what we can know and can't know about them, at this point. It's still a good book, but it's now about 20 years old; so it's worth looking at videos of Finkelstein's later talks. You'll see some debates between him and other archaeologists, but it's mostly about interpretation of the data, not whether or not the evidence exists. It exists, and it's quite ancient.
There's also a History Channel show on TH-cam that's based on "The Bible Unearthed," which features Finkelstein and his co-author. It's also older, but still can give a good introduction to the places and pieces of proof. I'd caution that the narration is overblown and over-dramatic, but that's the History Channel for you. Still, good stuff in it, and nice views of the locations and digs.
The exiles returned from Babylon in three waves. The first was led by Zerubbabel, the second by Ezra, and the third by Nehemiah. Perhaps these waves correspond to the JE, P, and D sources.
Or maybe the two sources J and E are from oral or written traditions from the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah, respectively or vice versa, joined and commented in Babylon. Those two states might have evolved differing traditions.
Who wrote the bible is also the title of one of my favorite books on the subject.
By Richard Freeman.
The writing is really clear, even being an academic publication.
I have this book. The theories it offers are quite compelling, and the book overall is very good. I would recommend it to anyone interested in biblical history. I have heard from someone more knowledgeable than I am that some of the scholarship is a bit dated, but that overall it's pretty solid (at least, by contemporary biblical research norms). Even if the theories are flawed, I think it offers an eye-opening exercise that leads the reader to a greater understanding of the challenges that historical researchers face, and how historians can apply rigorous analysis to develop plausible explanations.
Can you explain what the image at 2:18 is about? Like,..what is happening in this image of a stone carving?
the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom 🕊
When juruslam was sacked, temple was raised to ground, total population which was about 80 thousand then rounded up and taken to babylon ....not a single copy survived. Rest is history.
That’s not true. When the canaanites including the tribe of Judah was punished for collapsing the Bronze Age world, they were exiled into enduntured slavery for 500 years(the time the whole world was set back by their actions). Their faith was taken as well, put into a vault(along with the people’s who aided them). Upon release by Cyrus, they were given the Torah back, edited, to confuse its people on their origin. The idea is if you spend generations chasing that ghost you will never know the parts of the faith that caused the violence and entitlement.
The word bible comes from it’s place of writing, Byblos(pronounces Bible-ous). Byblos is the second oldest canaanite city, seconded by tyre, and succeeded by Beirut. The Bible comes from Canaan, not the smaller tribe of Canaan, Judah.
I love your channel! You stay objective, appealing to individuals of all beliefs to learn more. Citing your sources is a big bonus. Thanks for the well-made educational content!
It was David whomst received the Tanakh or Zabur as we addressed it in Islamic teaching. And yes, Yahweh does have a spouse because he sometimes could feel lonely too
Your videos on religion are excellent, thank you for your unbiased view. ☮️
@KNIGHT it's as unbiased as it can be. He is not pushing his beliefs, he is stating what he has studied.
Every presentation has a certain bias it cannot be helped, but he does a good job on all his work.
@KNIGHT That's cool, I migt not have explained it correct.
If I had to name a single editor, Ezra looks like a good candidate.
yep
You mean eblish?
Yeah right...and moses wrote genesis. (Sarcasm)
@@RetroRedacted No, it doesn't make sense. Joshua and Moses are mythological characters.
Hmm probably. He collected all the documents, formed by centuries of tradition (mostly oral), compiled it and written it in a way for contemporary Israelites to understand.
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Very insightful info and information regarding history and religion is unbiased and historically reliable
very good presentation. I want to learn more about the abrahamic religions from a historical perspective and this is precisely what I was looking for
You also can read the Quran/translation in english...as ISLAM,JUDAISM,CHRISTIANiTY..is From ABRAHAMIC FAITH.(PURE MONOTIESM) .. Its really Worth reading it..QURAN'😊
@@truthvsfalsehood3924 I’m more interested in the history of the church, not Islamic doctrine
@@__foam you can at least get a bigger picture on Abrahamic Faith(jew,Christian,Islam) by looking at the History told in each Faith Scriptures/Holy Bible/TORAh/Quran..But anyway this only my suggestion to you..may you success in your study of Abrahamic faith and Chuches History..😊
Glory Gloria, Gloria
Poor understanding
I think the TORA is the work of a much older tradition, that began with the ATEN and an oral collection of the stories of Abraham, exodus, Mt. Sinai, Canaan, Israel, etc., compiled orally and manipulated, edited many times before put into writing.
Torah is the work of Indo-Europeans (Babylonians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Hitties) except the Book is told from a perspective of a select few who made it from all those civilizations. Possibly took traditions from those civilizations and created their own. It is all under the umbrella of Good VS Evil. That's why you hear a lot of egypt, babylon, etc., Bashing.
@@AndrewTate-kt5mh lmao the egyptians were not indo european
Takes me back to my Graduate degree in Religion. Polytheism was edited out but fragments can be detected in less adulterated Pentateuch texts.
At least one survives:
Unbeknownst to Jacob, Rachel stole her father's household gods or teraphim. When Laban caught up with them, he searched for the idols, but Rachel had hidden the statues under her camel's saddle. She told her father she was having her period, making her ceremonially unclean, so he did not search near her.
Polygamy too:
In the morning, Jacob discovered he had been tricked. Laban's excuse was that it was not their custom to marry off the younger daughter before the older one. Jacob then married Rachel and worked for Laban another seven years for her.
Jacob loved Rachel but was indifferent toward Leah. God took pity on Leah and allowed her to bear children, while Rachel was barren.
Jealous of her sister, Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife. By ancient custom, Bilhah's children would be credited to Rachel. Bilhah bore children to Jacob, causing Leah to give her servant Zilpah to Jacob, who had children with her.
Altogether, the four women bore 12 sons and one daughter, Dinah. Those sons became the founders of the 12 tribes of Israel. Rachel bore Joseph, then the entire clan left Laban's country to return to Isaac.
@@fwcolb what a messed up story!
@@nicolasbouyiouclis4726: Notice that this story containing polygamy and polytheism could have been told by desert Arabs who lived in the same region, but further south, proof of the antiquity of the story. Certainly before writing was invented, and probably embellished by storytellers. But it does seem to me that this is nearer to real life than David and Goliath, just because it is so messy.
Even if moses wrote TORA ,THERE IS STILL ALOT which was added after his death so you don't know for sure which part is added later and which is original
Nothing has been added or removed.
@@jazznotes3802 Not since Joshua added the last 8 lines, that was discussed in the Mishna about 2,000 years ago.
@NINJANEEEERMaybe it's because the guy who wrote those stories wanted the jews to be more loyal to him than to the Egyptians.
@@donaldseigel4101 Sorry, I go by the KJV Bible.
@NINJANEEEER Sorry, I go by Gods preserved word. The KJV Bible.
Great observations and thought provoking information
Beautiful. Thank you.
what's that background misc for the intro? man it's good
Clearly the great-great-great-great-great-etc-grandfather of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Love your show. One request is please use the word "proposal" for when someone is doing guess work. I understand different academic traditions us the word "theory" in a variety of ways but the anti-science movement's use of it to degrade the term from "the most proven foundation of a science" to "just a guess" has become rather toxic to society. Appreciated!
How do you feel about string theory?
@Aziz Mahdavi you sound like you're lying.
Are you going to make a video on Judaism in india and their arrival at different times even before the common era