I strongly recommend that before you read what is placed upon this page you read whatever documents are the basis for your Theologies so that you will have a basis to compare what is put down here.
You say you don’t have time to read all that stuff with your busy schedule?
Then with an open mind peruse over my thoughts that were formed over the years and years of reading what has been created to lead the faiths and what has been written to express ideas contradictory to those faiths. Then other books and manuscripts that offer to show the errors in translation from ancient languages of just about everything dealing with any Theology. Then after the translation problems we have those writings from prominent Theologians offering to explain what the original writings really meant in the first place.
Ready or Not Here We Go
Ok so you clicked on the religious button! If you are kin to one of the so called Christian faiths let me warn you that what you have been told all your life about your Deities within the religion is a crock. Yes God does exist, but what he wants from us and who he has or hasn’t sent to lead us towards him has just been created by greedy humans out to fleece the flocks. As you read on, you can take what is said about the Christian faiths and apply it to all faiths since each and every one has strayed so far from worshiping god to worshiping some wanting Idol; which if in any reality they did exist were just used as a backdrop for somebody’s Harry Potter wizardry.
I suppose that starting with the King James Version of the Bible would be appropriate. The kiss ass guys that the king assigned to come up with a book to base the religion on he has decided to create and direct his subjects to follow, start the whole thing with a dedication page that makes old James sound like the direct descendant of god. They tell you in those paragraphs that there are other translations of the documents they used that are different from what they have written down. However they declare that those other wise men are really idiots and condemned to hell for not following the kings chosen translators. And that because they were chosen by old James to do this they are cool, with him being the coolest. Now the chosen ones that James picked to do this work were, by him, considered to be the most worthy and wisest of men in his kingdom. It didn’t hurt any that they followed his every whim with exuberance and were probably his favorite confidants at the local pub.
Nowhere am I going to say that the stories in the James book are not based on some actual happening, I’m only saying that these stories have been so twisted to meet whatever needs the writers were having at the time that what actually happened and what you are told to believe are way different. Like people are still writing stuff today about Gods and Prophets that are pure fantasy. Or didn’t you see the newest church released story with the big white guy in it who, if did exist, in real life would have been a short dark skinned fellow. There won’t be any numbered paragraph by numbered paragraph discussion here about the James book. Instead, some comments about portions of the stories that have come to dominate people’s beliefs.
Always the closer to truth comes from those documents and writings that were used to create the King James book. Starting with the story of Genesis in the James book is an account of the beginning of everything. If you read the account carefully it doesn’t say God is in Heaven. It says that God creates a firmament and divides the waters above the firmament from the waters below the firmament and calls the firmament heaven. Then it sounds like the waters below become the earth, but we never get back to the waters above. No one can know what the original description meant other than the author, who was supposed to be Moses. However, the concept of Heaven taught in Sunday school sure becomes a joke.
Next is the account of Adam and Eve - It doesn’t say there was a Garden of Eden like Sunday school teaches you. God built a garden east of Eden and there he conceived Adam and Eve. Even in the James book they talk about the gods in plural and that, way before Adam and Eve, the earth was inhabited. The Adam and Eve story is the beginning of a heritage that is to follow the teachings of that one god. When he created the garden there were already rivers that had names and other lands where the rivers came from. Next we have the problem with the discussion of gold and other gems that held value in those lands. Well, Adam and Eve don’t do so go what with the evil serpent and the fruit of the forbidden tree. So God kicks them out into the cold hard world to toil in the soil and eventually return to it. Here we reach the Cain and Able thing. After doing his bro under, Cain is driven out to the land of Nod and has a wife. This is way before we get back to Adam and Eve having other children. So just where has this wife come from, that Cain so diligently picks up and starts to begat with. Next somebody really broke their research button when they translated how long people lived. It says Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years. Then it continues on with these outlandish life spans for others who are the descendants of Adam and we aren’t told any more about Eve just that he is bagaten with his wife. So with everyone running around with many wives and begaten their brains out maybe Adam had some extras too.
If you want a real mind teaser, in the story of Noah the book talks about the sons of God getting mixed up with the daughters of men. There you have another mention of there being inhabitants of earth other then the descendants of the Adam and Eve God.
That is enough of Genesis in the James book other than to say it is an interesting read which leads up to how the Israelites arrive in Egypt and prosper. Even though moving to Egypt saved their ass and made them wealthy they still dream of going home some day. They are free to come and go as they wish in Egypt, but still feel God will deliver them back to their homeland. Oh by the way, people are living a lot shorter life by the end of Genesis. Go figure?
Now on to the story of Exodus in the James book.