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Welcome to our blog, Man needs God
and this post, the Bible is Hebrew history
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The Hebrew history
The ancient book of the Bible, is the religious and historic book of the Israelite people.
The Hebrew history
Dear readers, here we would like to point
out in this post that in the ancient world people history and religions were
written together, they were not separated like they are today and whatever
happened was written down mostly as religion, because it was the religious
leaders that knew how to write and what to say and what to do and how to
control people in most circumstances, for this reason the ancient Hebrew
history and religion were written in the Bible as well, by now we all should
know about that, even though today we think and use the Bible as a religious
book only, but if we read the Bible and we try hard to forget that the Bible is
a religious book, it follows that then we will able to see that there is more
Hebrew history than religious
writings.
We would also be able to see that those
religious writings that are written in the Bible have been written to control
the Hebrew people, which are hard to otherwise control and in those times
religions were used to control the people, since religions and government were
(most likely) the same people using the same rules.
For this reason religions had to be made to
control the people, therefore, since the Israelite was strong headed a very
strong God was needed to control them and show them what to do. This might well
be the reason why the Hebrew god had to be so powerful. Can you just imagine a
powerful god that created everything and crated man from plain dirt? This God
would be so powerful indeed, don’t you agree. So, let me ask you again this
question in a different way; can there be any other god so powerful that would
be able to create everything including man from plain dirt? I do not think so.
The Hebrew were indeed headstrong and
selfish people, if you want to see what I mean, try to imagine the Israelite
when they were in the desert and what they did, even after seeing all those
things that Yahweh their God had done for them, as we know they were delivered
from the Pharaoh slavery because of the seven plagues and many other things
that Yahweh did for them, and then afterward the crossing of the Red Sea on dry
land; but even though they had witnessed all these supernatural things, they
still had their own rebellious ideas that they wanted to follow, instead of following
their God Yahweh, as we have also mentioned in our previous article.
Now, we need to say that this hub is being
written to discuss and comment about what is written in the Bible, not only
about the religious aspect of the Bible, but also about the Hebrew history that
is written in it, so that a better understanding of the Bible could be
achieved.
Now, looking at what we have already said,
it seems to me that there must be another explanation, why the Israelite were
had strong; here we have to admit that something does not add up in the Bible, because
there is a discrepancy in the narrative of the Bible; therefore there must be
another explanation, which is that ether the Israelites were really headstrong
and wanted to see only their own ways and this means that God might have made a
mistake to choose them as his people, or perhaps God did not do those many
things that the Bible says he did?
Here I suppose that we need to explain
ourselves better about what we want to say with these religious or spiritual
writings, You see, we do not say that the Hebrew God Yahweh does not exist at
all, in fact we are pretty sure that Yahweh God does exist, but he exist in a
less powerful form than the Hebrew people have described him, of course Yahweh
is still a very powerful God, but He is less powerful than the way he has been
described from the Hebrews; of course there is a lot more that can be said
about Yahweh God of the Israelite, so let us see what happens on the Sinai
desert.
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In the Sinai desert
The Israelite in the Sinai desert
This is the Sinai desert, where the Israelite stayed a long time after leaving Egypt, they seem to be going in the wrong direction, lots of times, some of these explanations are in our text here under.
The Bible says that the Israelite stayed a
long time in the Sinai desert, at the beginning the Israelites were given laws
from Yahweh their God through Moses: they were counted and assigned there place
around the tabernacle, they were given their tasks as Yahweh God was telling
Moses and many other things that would take a long time to tell, so if you want
to check all these details it is necessary that you read the first five books
of the Bible; this is the link, www.catholic.org/bible/ but
anyhow what is so incredible here is that Yahweh God dictated just about
everything through Moses.
Here again what is written in the Bible
seems incredible, as God did so much work and every single aspect of the
Israelite life was regulated as Yahweh ordered through Moses, and then Moses
and his brother Aaron would pass to their people. Therefore here again we may
have to ask, did everything really happen as it is written in the Bible and
Yahweh God did all this programming?
Or perhaps it only seems that way, just
because later on when the Bible
was written, it
seems that Moses and Aaron were in charge of this fastidious group of
Israelite, who seemed never happy about anything, so they had to be guided with
whatever means possible, so they might have exaggerated what Yahweh was telling
Moses just to control them. Anyhow, whatever was really known or written in the
beginning might have changed, because it was written and
re-written later on many times, anyhow these religious laws were written is
such a way that the Israelites were bound to follow these religious laws. We
believe that the people then were guided by religions more than today, or just
it was necessary to control the people with religion in those times, as people
believed in God and religions more than these days.
If one had to compare the old religions
with today religions, we should search for those religions that have not
changed much, and for that reason they retain still that religious control of
the people, one of these religions is the Muslim religion, which does not seem
to have changed, here religion and the laws of the land seem identical in the
Muslim world, or at least we from the western world see their laws as being mainly
religious driven.
You see, today no matter what we do or say
about religions we always have some doubts in our minds, in fact we are not even
sure if God really exists; anyhow this is how we see religious things today and
here we are talking about ancient times.
Anyhow, in the ancient times, if Yahweh God
really came down to earth and helped the Israelites that much, how come that every
now and again the Israelite people had doubts about their God; may it be that
God did not do as much as the Bible said he did?
You see today if anything would happen just
the way that have happened in the Bible, or how the Bible claims that they have
happened, I am sure that just about everybody would follow religion and their
God blindly; anyhow let us continue the story of the Israelite and their God.
There are many things and happenings that
don’t add up as they should, one of these strange happenings was this: You see
Yahweh had promised the Israelites the Promised Land, but as we know the
Israelites of those times did not follow God every time blindly, in fact they
did not believe that they could really take over the Promised Land from the
people that were already there, as God had promised them, and for this reason
Yahweh punished them by making them stay in the dessert for forty years, that
is until all those people that had doubts died and a new generation took over.
This single happening makes us ask many
questions here, so: what was the reason why the Israelites did not believe in
their God Yahweh? Was it because God did not do those things that the Bible
claims he has done? Or were the Israelites blind and did not see what was
happening around them? Or is this all an invented religious story written later
on to control the Israelites? I am sure that we will never know the answer and
there will be always doubts in our minds, but we have to live with it, and
every one of us should follow with our own religious beliefs.
As you can see from what we have written
above, while we are trying to explain whether the Bible is a religious book or
the Israelite history, we end up questioning the questionable, above all
whether these things really happened as the Bible claims, but let us sees what
happens in the religious circles, because we believe that religions and
everything else changes with time.
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From old to modern religions
St Peter basilica in Rome, is today the centre of the Roman Catholic religion, you see, this is how religions change, in the past from the old Hebrew religion new religions were born, because things happen and religions become modified. For this reason we believe that today religions will become modified in the future.
We need to move from the old religions to
modern religions it is the sign of the time and get ready for the religions of
the future, since they are coming one way or another.
As we have seen above, there are many more
things that can be said here, about the Israelites and the Old
Testament in the
Bible; but we will have to come back to continue what is written in the Bible
another time, when we edit these writings again and again, you see our main
task today is not that we want to write here what is written in the Bible;
because our main task is to find a way how to explain to you those religious
doubts, that we have found when we were reading the Bible and also what could
be done about it, in other words what we could or should do about them, because
we believe that they need to be addressed so to speak.
What we are saying above is not that we
should change anything that is written in the Bible, to the contrary, we should
keep what is written in the Bible the way it is, because the Bible belongs to
the past and the past cannot be changed; but we should learn from it and
together with other thing we have learned we should plan for the future,
because some minor religious changes may happen in the future. Of course this
is not the first time that humanity has done that, if we look back at history
we will see that many religions have given way to new religions, the way that
we see this is that religions have got to agree with the times they are in, if
they don’t the public will slowly move away from them.
Therefore now let us go back to talk about
the Bible religions and Christianity, today as you know the Old Testament is no
longer the most important part of our religious beliefs, since The New
Testament is what most western
religions are
following today, therefore, it seems to me that religions are just as
everything else, they have their life span so to speak, as we have said above,
so, soon or later they become too old and they have to be somehow modified.
Now we believe that there must be a way to
a modern religious system so to speak and this is what we are chasing in these
religious writings. Here I have to say that in my own ways I am writing all
these religious writings for the benefit of mankind.
Of course we have already a theory that we
are writing and we are going to put forward, in our next group of hubs in part
three, but before we do that we also need to say a few other things, starting
by looking briefly at the New Testament in our next hub, since this is just
another link of the chain that binds every religious thing together.
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Man
needs God
The Bible
is Hebrew history
IS TO
BE CONTINUED;
Next
time with, the new Testament discussions.
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