BLASPHEMY & GOD'S WRATH

And Ancient Cataclysms

GOD’S WRATH

BLASPHEMY

This is just some more of my fallible inspiration. We all learn by trial and error. Those who say the Bible is God's Word and that it's infallible commit blasphemy, according to the Bible. As the Bible says, only God is infallible. The first Commandment says not to have other gods besides God, the Creator. Any being that's infallible is God, so calling the Bible infallible is calling it God. God is infinite and the Bible is not infinite and it contains errors (such as leaving out one of Jesus' ancestors), so it cannot be the infallible word of God. It's likely the words of angels of God. Angels are also not infinite or perfect or all-knowing. Jesus is/was likely an angel. He isn't and wasn't God, because he's not infinite. He's the Son of God, which is not God the Father. We're all children of God, so Jesus is like our elder brother. He's our role model, which is what Savior means. The Bible says we're supposed to follow his example of Love for All. It also says he will save all, such as in the parable of the Good Shepherd, who goes after all lost sheep, not just some.

ANCIENT CATACLYSMS & GOD’S WRATH

I have a substack called CATACLYSMIC EARTH HISTORY at https://cataclysmicearthhistory.substack.com/archive and a book by that name at https://zzzzzzz.substack.com/p/cataclysmic-earth-history and a book called ANCIENT MYTHS ARE EARTH HISTORY at https://zzzzzzz.substack.com/p/ancient-myths-are-planetary-history. Velikovsky was the first person to make a good case for the Bible's records of cataclysmic events being scientifically true. He believed that Venus and Mars came close to Earth in ancient times and caused cataclysms described in the Bible, especially the Exodus. A more recent researcher found that there did seem to be a large comet that may have caused problems on Earth during the Exodus event, but it likely wasn't Venus as a comet. Some researchers found that many ancient peoples believed that Saturn, Venus and Mars were originally people who lived on Earth, but who then moved up to the sky during a cataclysmic event and ruled as gods. Even the names of God in the Bible, El, Elohim, Yahweh, Adonai etc were originally named after Saturn, Venus and Mars, when they appeared to be all together in the sky, like 3 gods in one, or 3 persons in one god. There was a dusty plasma column connected from planet Saturn to Earth, which was thought by human observers to be a penis, and when the column fell away it was thought that Saturn was self-castrated, or castrated by another planet/god. In Egypt was the story of Osiris cut up by Seth. Isis found his parts, except for the penis, and helped revive him. Isis was Venus, considered to be the Wife of Osiris/Saturn and Mother and Wife of Horus/Mars. This seems to be the source of the Egyptian and Israelite practice of circumcision of males.

The Book of Revelation appears to predict that the "End Times" will occur in the 7 year period from mid 2024 till mid 2031, based on interpreting the constellation Virgo as the virgin, Jupiter and the Moon as themselves, and the Mars as the child. That means the Bible seems to admit that it uses such objects as symbols that humans can understand. There seems to be good scientific evidence that some or many of the Bible stories are true, such as the Exodus, the Israelites period of living in Egypt as slaves, the crossing of the Reed Sea, the acquisition of the Ten Commandment on Mt. Sinai, the conquest of Canaan, the destruction of the cities by the Dead Sea, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel and so on. But some stories like Samson is surely based on events in the sky instead of actual humans. Saturn was called Samas in Sumeria, so Samson may have meant Son of Sam/Saturn, which would have been Mars. And other cultures had similar stories about amazing feats of superhuman characters based on planet Mars, such as Hercules, Indra etc. Also, the children of Israel kept worshiping Saturn/Moloch by sacrificing their own children to him, despite being rebuked often by the prophets. My suspicion is that the Israelite prophets were inspired by angels of God. The angels knew that the planets were not gods and they knew that mortals were going astray by worshiping them, which is why they inspired Moses to teach the Israelites to worship only God who is spirit and not visible to anyone.

By the way, I’m adding this late. I thought I should mention that I find it disgusting to imagine that God told Moses to order the killing of thousands of the people who had worshipped the Golden Calf. Isn’t it extremely ironic that God had supposedly just given Moses the Ten Commandments, which included the commandment not to kill? Someone who wrote that into the Bible was testing readers’ gullibility. Were they not? The same goes for the conquest of Canaan. Who can believe that God commanded the Israelites to do such a revolting, immoral act? Did Jesus go around saying join the army and go kill all your enemies? Plenty of Christians in recent centuries seem to have gotten their ideas about morality from the Old Testament instead of from the New. Jesus said he came to teach the Law correctly, because the religious leaders had been teaching it all wrong.

Now, getting back to cataclysms, there's good scientific evidence for the Great Flood, too, which is discussed in my book above. I doubt if people's sins were the cause of the Flood. There was a swarm of asteroids and comets that hit the Earth at that time, which caused the Flood. I certainly don't believe God was all emotional and mad at people or jealous of them and sent his wrath as punishment. That's a very childish belief IMO. No one has better composure or more patience or love/caring than God. People's beliefs don't have to be perfect, though, in order to make progress toward understanding and learning God's love for all. So, just as all kids start out naive, and grow and learn, so humanity as a whole matures and learns, starting out with naive notions. Circumcision is a barbaric practice which all cultures need to give up. Even worse is female mutilation practiced in some Muslim countries, especially in Africa. They circumcise girls' genitalia at about age ten, very painfully & totally inhumanely & stupidly, IMO. That's about as deplorable as damn war-mongering and other brutal abuses.

BIBLE VS. SCIENCE

I just watched this video called PhD Christian Scientist Exposes the HUGE Faults in Cosmic Evolution at youtube.com/watch?v=gHKQAOFYd1U. The author shows that modern science doesn't have good answers about the mysteries of the universe. He tries to say that the Bible has the correct answers, I guess that God created the universe just a few thousand years ago. I think he's just as wrong to be overconfident in his understanding of the Bible as atheist scientists are in their beliefs about science. Actually, Christians started the movement for science in the 1400s for the purpose of improving conditions for humanity. They also started the movement then for Republican government of, by and for the people. Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa, Italy was the main promoter, I think. I hate the Catholic Church quite a bit, because of how they greatly warped Christianity after 300 AD, but at least some of their people have partially redeemed it. Anyway, the video says scientists don't know how stars and planets and galaxies etc form and I agree, but I think one guy has figured out a lot of that. I have a book called Electric Astrophysics which is a copy of a lot of his papers. He's a friend of mine, but he had a stroke in 2021, so he can't discuss anything any more. I suspect that it was caused by a covid shot. Getting back on track, I don't think the universe was created just a few thousand years ago, but the continents on Earth appear to have formed then, which would have been some centuries before the Great Flood. Due to the Flood, the continents were covered with a couple miles of sediment, which became sedimentary rock, though in many places the sediment was removed as the Flood waters receded, depositing it on the continental shelves. So it will take a lot of scientific work to determine just how old the Earth is.

ORIGINAL BIBLE

I asked Perplexity.ai about the Judaic Bible. It replied as follows.
The Judaic Bible, also known as the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, was ... written down before the Greek Septuagint was created. Here's a breakdown of the timeline and key points:
Original Hebrew Texts
The Hebrew Bible was originally written in Hebrew, with small portions in Aramaic. The writing of these texts occurred over a long period, with different parts being composed at different times:
Torah (Pentateuch): The first five books, traditionally attributed to Moses, were likely written down in their final form by the 5th century BCE.
Nevi'im (Prophets): This section was largely completed and canonized by the 3rd century BCE.
Ketuvim (Writings): Most of these books were written by the 2nd century BCE, though the final canonization of this section occurred later.
Septuagint Translation
The Septuagint, which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, was created later:
Translation began around 300 BCE, starting with the Torah.
The entire translation was completed by approximately 200 BCE.
Key Points
The Hebrew texts existed in written form before the Septuagint translation began.
The Septuagint was created to make the Hebrew scriptures accessible to Greek-speaking Jews in Alexandria and other Hellenistic areas.
While the Septuagint became widely used, it was a translation of existing Hebrew texts, not the original composition.
It's important to note that the texts available at the time of the Septuagint translation may have differed somewhat from later standardized versions like the Masoretic Text. However, the core Hebrew scriptures were definitely written down before the Greek translation was undertaken.

My point is that the original books of the Bible likely don't exist. If they did, we'd be able to examine them and discover just how perfect they might have been, compared to the copies we have now. Like with the Shroud of Turin. The Shroud seems supernatural. The composition of the Bible also seems to be supernatural, as I've written about here recently. It would be great if the original copies of any of the books of the Bible could be found, but we need to be careful not to be naive like the Mormons who fell for Joseph Smith's claimed golden plates that he supposedly based the Mormon Bible on. We're not supposed to worship these things. We can just be gleeful knowing that God does all these supernatural things for us to enjoy and marvel at and then keep learning to follow Jesus' example of love for all, IMO. Right?