I recently posted a blog in mainstream religious objection to a secular book by Paul Young that would dare to challenge the traditions of man that have perpetuated religious organizations the past two thousand years. I questioned the very fact that we are supposed to not diverse – neither add to nor take away – from what is written in the books we call the bible. Well, I ask you, “Which of man’s versions of the bible is it that is the true Word?” How can I be expected to hold up a book as my barometer for living when I don’t know which version “they” (whoever they are) are referring to.
So you ask me, “What does it matter? They’re all pretty much the same.” First of all, they aren’t all pretty much the same. There are versions of the bible and the torah/tanakh (old testament of the christian bible) that have books either missing or added. Which is correct. And again, you ask, what does it matter. I say what matters is that even just a single word matters, if you really believe…that YHWH spoke and so it was; think about the power in just one word – to give life or destroy. Aah, but you say, that was god; we’re only people, humans…it’s not the same. I beg to differ; no I absolutely and totally disagree. Yahshua said with but faith as tiny as a mustard seed, we need only say to the mountain be moved and it will be moved. We are speaking to that mountain; telling it what to do. So, you continue to argue with me, what’s that got to do with the word, the bible and what’s missing or added, and again I say to you – if as commanded in the Bible we are commanded not to add to nor take away, how in heaven’s name can we ever know what we, individually or in our collective religious bodies are attempting to add to or take away?
And I question….what happened before the book of genesis as we know it? Surely there was life before that was written? Why has the story of life only begun hundreds of thousands of years ago? What about the Mayans, the Sumerians….their knowledge and abilities thousands and thousands and thousands…of years ago? Those pyramids….good heavens they didn’t have crains and machinery like we do today; how did they build those pyramids? I personally recall watching this huge crain strain and groan as it lifted and placed the tower, the spiral pinnacle on the Toronto CN Tower. The city stood outside their office towers watching, mouths agape…applauding and the marvellous feat of us grand folks today; to be able to do such a thing, “Ain’t we just marvellous.”
Well, for those of you reading this blog – who have thumbed through the bible, what have you got to say about this?
Stories throughout the english version of the bible, today’s modern version, speak of many events that changed the coarse of humanity in our past. If we look at the stories in the bible as historical accounts of what actually took place, then we need to research the origins of these stories. The hebrew version of the bible, known as the Old Testament, which is a much older version than the english translation, is derived from the stories of the Sumerian Culture. When we trace the origins of the Old testament we can see that it is also based on previous translations from subsequent older languages throughout history.
The Sumerian culture, the first civilization to invent writing as a complete written language, recorded stories that have been preserved through the modern day biblical passages found in the Old and New testament. All of which speak of a time when man lived among their living gods here on earth. The Sumerians had 7 sacred tablets that explained our creation. These stories preserved in stone, are now told to us in the form of the english version, “7 days of creation”.
They also had a story of a great flood, and how one of the Gods choose to give a certain Sumerian man knowledge on how to build a boat that could withstand the great flood. All the stories in the bible are just translated versions of the original Sumerian Texts that we still have today preserved in stone, unchanged.
The Sumerians tell us that their Gods, taught them all the amazing knowledge that the Sumerian Culture possessed, 6,000 years ago. They called their Gods, “anunnaki” which is translated to mean “those who from heaven to earth came”..
Are those books we refer to in the bible, a modern day version, of a very historically old happening; a retelling?
Am I heretical in thinking and questioning? Is this that 80% of my human brain that is trying to get out; to be heard; to know? Only …. knows, and as for me I will seek to question, to learn, to understand…to have wisdom unfold and with the gaining of wisdom pray for understanding.
