Many are the stories that were told in the Hebrew Bible, but the one story that is yet to be told is the story of the Hebrew Bible itself. The relationship with gods/god has always been one of man’s oldest preoccupations, and still is till this very day. While it’s fair to assume that Modern […]
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Investigating the Pre-Biblical origins of the Holy Bible via Archaeology*
Your Host: Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre, M.A. Ed. e-mail contact “If you would subject all things to yourself, subject yourself to reason.” –Seneca “Only knowledge, then, is power and freedom; and the only permanent happiness is the pursuit of knowledge and the joy of understanding.” –Will Durant (1885-1981) “Happy the man who has […]
Castration of Ouranos and the Drunkenness of Noah
This post complements my previous one about the Ham “seeing his father’s nakedness” story developing in three stages: Originally the story was an adaption of the myths of the youngest son castrating his father (the motive: to maintain an inheritance) Then it was more delicately shifted to a story of illicit sex And finally […]
Zeus, Elohim, Yahweh, etc. are all the same gods – Dr. Arthur Ide
Dr. Arthur Ide more Contact Author Zeus & the Gigante Porphyrion; in Antikenmuseen, Berlin, Germany, No. 52521 Source Zeus, Elohim, Yahweh, Osiris, Isis, Horus and the Others All of the ancient gods and goddesses had equals but different names depending on which civilization mortals invented them in an effort to answer questions that seemed to […]
Events recorded in the Pentateuch: True or False
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_arhs.htm Considering the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) the most extreme views are: The Pentateuch Common conservative religious beliefs Common beliefs of secular archaeologists & religious liberals Accuracy Totally accurate, inerrant, & infallible. Contains no mistakes. Inspired by God. Mixture of ancient myths, some valid history, […]
Bible Inconsistencies … pdf
Noah’s Ark and the Flood
Points of similarity between the Babylonian and Noachian flood stories Comparing the stories The Chaldean Flood Tablets from the city of Ur in what is now Southern Iraq contain a story that describes how the Babylonian god Enlil had been bothered by the incessant noise generated by humans. He convinced the other gods to […]
Inventing God’s Laws … David P. Wright – pdf
Hammurabi and Moses: Law as a Mirror of Civilization – Ken Wolf
Hammurabi and Moses: Law as a Mirror of Civilization excerpted in its entirety from Personalities and Problems, by Ken Wolf (McGraw-Hill: 1999) What do the laws of a society tell us about the lives and beliefs of the people who write, enforce, and obey those laws? What was the chief difference between the law codes […]
I just read “The Greatest Lie Ever Told” by historian W H Uffington …
Douglas Michael King to The Humanist Hub I just read “The Greatest Lie Ever Told” by historian W H Uffington. Caesar’s Messiah proved there is no Jesus. But, this book proves their is no god. It’s a historic scandal. Here are some interesting points he made: According to Genesis 24, Abraham lived in Nahor, not Ur of […]