The God of the Old Testament started out as just one of many deities of the ancient Israelites. It took a traumatic crisis to make him into the all-powerful creator of the world. Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in a single, omnipotent deity that created the heavens and earth. But if he was and […]
Biblical Contradictions
How the Jews Invented God, and Made Him Great – Ariel David
Theological Terrorism – pdf
The Invention of the Jewish People – Shlomo Sand – pdf
How Persia Created Judaism: Persian and Jewish Religion – Dr Mike D. Magee
The Universal God The Influence of Exile Nehemiah and Ezra Judaism and Zoroastrianism Ahuramazda and Yehouah Eschatology Holy Spirits and Saviours Purity A Law for the Priests The traditional view is that Cyrus and successive Persian kings of the sixth and fifth centuries BC were being religiously liberal in allowing the Jews to reconstruct their […]
Men. Woman and Gods – Helen H. Gardener (Intro by Robert G. Ingersoll) pdf
The Bible its Own Refutation – Charles G. Olmsted – pdf
The Bible is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence – Daniel Miessler
☞ Every Sunday I put out a curated list of the week’s most interesting stories in infosec, technology, and humans. You can subscribe to it here. Similarities to Other Stories Unavoidable Contradictions The Logical Explanation SIMILARITIES TO OTHER STORIES The similarities between the stories and characters in the Bible and those from previous mythologies […]
The Abraham Myth – Peter J. Leithart
Evangelicals are debating the historicity of Adam, but they are too timid. It is time to reject fundamentalist distortions of the Abrahamic narrative just as decisively as we have abandoned literalistic readings of Genesis 1–3. Clinging to discredited biblical accounts of Abraham as if these events actually happened makes us look like Neanderthals, undermines the […]