BY ELIMINATING THE TANGLES IN YOUR RELIGIOUS THINKING, YOU STOP BELIEVING IN GOD Are you a religious person? Do you believe in God or Allah or Jesus? If so, then I would like to show you something about yourself that may really surprise you. It comes from the breakthrough book How God Works. Here […]
Biblical Discrepancies
Who Wrote the Torah? Brandon Norgaard
Who wrote the Torah? Many people believe that the Bible is the word of God. The first five books are known to Jews as the Torah, and they are the most important books to Judaism. These books include Genesis, which begins by telling stories of how God created life on Earth and mankind and also […]
Biblical Monotheism and the Persian Influence – Lewis Loflin
The early Jews were not monotheists, but followed henotheism or even outright polytheists. They had one central god but believed in other gods. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3) indicates the belief there was other gods. This was the tribal god, often bloodthirsty and murderous who (they claimed) ordered the killing […]
Blood Sacrifice (full article)
Historical pagan practices have also included ritual animal sacrifice and utilized animal parts within ritual and magic. Traditional religions such as Christianity inherited their attitude towards blood and animal sacrifice from pagan origins, such as the way in which the Abel and Cain story was copied from the Sumerian story of Enkimdu and Damuzi6. Neo-paganism, […]
Where Did Judaism Originate? pdf
A History of God – Karen Armstrong – pdf
How the Jews Invented God, and Made Him Great – Ariel David
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 […]