Droopy Eye said:
Back to the bible, you seem to have a lot of arguments that basically say "Everything bad about Christianity is the fault of people. But God and Jesus are a-ok!" But everything we know about God and Jesus has already gone through people with pens, so basically people has always corrupted the religion.
People have corrupted themselves.
The scripture remains the same....
Droopy Eye said:
Noah :
"The story of Noah and his Ark is related to the Sumerian myth of a great flood. In the sumerian myth the man is named Ziusudra. Over time the myth spread westward until it ended up in the Jewish belief system. (A process known as Syncretism). "
Why can't it be that Genesis is the original scripture that everyone else borrowed from?
Go and find what the Turkish government is gaurding by Mount Ararat....
Droopy Eye said:
The story of Exodus from egypt :
"No doubt that the writer of the story, or people who had an influence had been to egypt because many references were to real events in egypt. However, despite the huge calamities supposedly inflicted upon the Egyptians there is only one mention of Jews in all of the extensive writings of the Egyptians, and that is on a stone of Pharoh Sheshonk (the Biblical Shishak), simply mentioning a tribe called Israelites. Moreover, the story of a baby put in the nile and rescued, and then leading "his people" out of egypt was a popular myth around the Levant for over 500 years before the Jews started believing it. "
That's what they love to say, but they can never back it up.
Where is there proof that the baby in the Nile river was a popular myth hundreds of years before Exodus?
This claim is very similar to the one that certain people make up about Jesus. That Jesus is only a myth influenced by other myths before him.
Tell that to early Jewish historians....
Droopy Eye said:
Satan :
"The concept of Satan and hell are Zoroastrian (a Persian religion) in origin. The Jews originally had no concept of hell, or as Satan the adversary. Zoroastrianism preached that all people's had free will. That everyone had a choice between the forces of good (those of Ahura Mazda) and of evil (Ahriman) and Ahriman was a devil character. In the end fable of Zoroastrianism the world faced an apocalypse where good defeated evil in a battle involving angels. The Jews who had been forcibly removed from the last two tribes in the kingdom of Judea by the invading Assyrians, and moved to Babylon (c. 600 B.C.) came into contact with these ideas. Afterwards, when they returned Satan went from being one of god's workers (see the Book of Job) to being an enemy working against god. And the idea of heaven and hell started to take root among some small groups of Jews. The most notable group of Jews who were influenced by this were the early Christian sects. Which then became a religion for everyone, not just Jews, hence the religious world we live in today."
The Jews had no concept of hell? WTF????
That there doesn't even make sense.
The concept of "Jews" came out of the Old Testiment in the first place. Along with hell and Satan....
Come on bro, you gotta read the scripture.
Who ever came up with these ideas does not have a clear picture of the Old Testament.
Everyone knows Satan was an elite angel who became envious of God..... The Jews were well aware that Satan was the same Snake in the garden of Eden.
Satan, Lucifer, AKA The Great Deciever....
Droopy Eye said:
God :
"Yahweh(later Jehovah, or just plain god), originally just called Yah (which is why you say Hallelujah, it means praise be unto yah), evolved out of the Canaanite pantheon. While the bible lists Baal as a false god in some of the later books, originally they were one and the same. Jews started out as a polytheistic cult. Originally, among the Jews, who were but one sect living in Canaan. The Jews, like the other Canaanites worshiped El the supreme god, and even more worshiped Baal(also called Bel). Over time the people came to believe in a number of manifestations of Baal called the Baalim, one of them called Yahweh. As happens in history over time one god takes precedent and Yahweh became a sort of chief deity.
As this evolved other gods were worship alongside Yahweh. Among caves in the dead see we have found pottery with figures of Yahweh (at that time depicted visually) and Ashtarte. Ashtarte was a godess at the time worshipped as Yahweh's consort. Archaeologists have found many shrines dedicated to her worship inside Jewish Shrines. Even the decalogue (ten commandments) does not deny other god's, it simply states the Yahweh is first "Thou shalt hold no god before me". Jews adhered to that believing that Yahweh was the chief god. By about 800 B.C. though, the trend towards monotheism had pushed farther, with the Prophets Hosea and others purging priests who worshiped other gods, thus completing a trend lasting some 1500 years."
Why is it that some people cannot seperate Molech and Yahweh?
Yahweh commanded Joshua and the Isrealites to destroy the Canaanites along with their idols. Yahweh strictly and specifically warned the Isrealites not to worship this decieving Molech idol....
There is archeological evidence supporting this biblical claim....
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