Facts matter.

I need to remember that quote. Thank You Doctor.

That was a great quote! Based.

Yeah, that intro!

Spoken like a true scholar

The Lutherans fix that problem by saying one can't use the historical-critical method of interpretation because the Bible isnt an historical account of events. You can only use the words in the Bible. And maybe Martin Luther. Something like that. My theology is pretty rusty.

Independent search for Truth! The more I learn the stronger my faith has become. So many things get changed with each translation that lately I've gone to the Hebrew text to try and understand things. Once it's been translated into Greek so many things get changed and then another translation into Latin or English even more changes to the text and the meaning behind it.

I'm from Germany and I had religious studies at school. One of my teacher was studying for a doctorate in theology and he described his seminary as atheism factory.

@@sophigenitor sounds very cynical, studying this kind of stuff really should never drive anyone to atheism unless there were already some preverbal wolves in the sheep pen.

@@memeboi6017 Why would someone who isn't 100% committed to their faith spend the time and effort to study theology?

Our Akkadian. ancestors, around 2500 to 2000 B.C., worshiped God and called Him (Aya) and Eal) in Arabic is a letter calling out to someone far away. But they made the angels control the universe without referring to God, so they established what is called (the complex of the gods) consisting of multiple statues, each statue symbolizing the king of angels # Therefore, each king had a specific function, so we find the complex of gods among the Akkadians (ancestors of the Babylonians) consisting of small statues It symbolizes some important angels. Prophet Abraham in the time of the Akkadians around the year 2000 BC, and he took advantage of people going out to celebrate one of their holidays, and destroyed the small statues and put the ax in the neck of the large statue without destroying it # which symbolizes him with the angel of death or (Azar) and in Arabic his names are (Azrael) and (Asher) In the Assyrian civilization # and the Egyptians called him. (Osiris) 🤔 Abraham's goal is to teach his people # If he controls life and death as you think without referring to God, why didn't his companions save # other small gnomes from collapsing or dying

​@@alihady-qc6xytu eri testimone del tutto😳😳😳?!!

What if you have faith in TRUTH?

Life is short and we will die and we do not know what will happen to us in the world after death. Just as you believe in accurate scientific research in this life and do not accept random research that is not based on the conditions of science... Likewise, you must be certain that the world after death is also based on wise, non-material laws. Therefore, Our interpretations and analyzes must begin with faith first

@@archangel_one whose truth?

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Yep, this is an evidence based, academic channel.

Millions have done this, engaging in the "evidence: they are now known as Atheists as a result.

@@ScottJB Clearly the Abrahamic god does not exist. All claimed gods fit perfectly within mad-made imagines and the evolution of such thought. Just Archaic nonsense. This does not on its own eliminate any god existing. Just none have been demonstrated, have any evidence or are in anyway involved in human affairs. Some proof or evidence may come to light, but we are looking at such a low chance, beyond 0.1 X10 to the power of 82 conservatively. I would be more concerned about getting run over by Big-Foot on a E-Scooter.

@@ScottJB No gods to calculate chances on so Zero, I said I was being conservative just giving the number of Atoms in the Universe. Pretending there are questionable assumptions is ridiculous. You can believe in the golden horned rainbow Unicorn for all I care. No evidence means I don't have to give a shit. Claim it has wings and can fly into space then it is so absurd and counter to known facts, it is a false claim and does not exist. If you are now forced to remake and redefine, to reinvent and mold a god "who was unchanging forever" to fit modern knowledge and criticisms, that should be your big give away hint it is man-made and FAKE. Pick another one.

@@ScottJB I don't think the "odds of a god existing" are relevant. If there's an unknown deity that actually exist but appear to be undetectable and non-intervening.....then there is no real significance to making any claims about it since there's nothing tangible to give us any information on it. We don't really know what defines a god aside from our own imaginations. No one knows what its attributes would be. There are no observations, no confirmable detectable information. The idea of gods being the product of human imagination is reflected in the human record with many different types of deities, entities, or creatures within stories amongst ancient cultures. If reality produces no definable data on the existence of a god or what composes a god...and then someone goes beyond that to claim: that a specific god does exist, or to know what a god wants, thinks, says, does, or how many there are, or how you should act, or treat certain groups of peoples......well, those are ASSERTIONS. Asserted claims. Someone would claim there are no gods if that's what the evidence suggest. Just like people say there are no magical leprechauns, because there's never been any detectable evidence to affirm those supernatural claims that leprechauns exist and can grant wishes. The atheist argument is basically a REJECTION of unfounded asserted claims, not that a deity has to conform to any type of form. Sure, someone can claim that a god(s) may exist, but they can also say "if one does....we don't have any information to say anything on the matter. So, we won't make any such statements until detectable information becomes available to support our position". That would be the proper route to go.

Implications are that the prehistoric Indo-European migrations across Eurasia are a likely origin. Their chief god was a storm god. It spread all over and seems to have been adapted to cultures in many places. Which wasn't unusual, at all, for polytheistic religions. Also, much later during the Late Bronze Age, one of the tribes of the "Sea Peoples" (raiders), whom the Pharaoh had settled in the Levant after defeating them in a battle, as part of a peace settlement, is believed to have originated in Bronze Age Mycenaean Greece . The "Peleset" tribe, as they were called by the ancient Egyptians. Believed to have then become the Philistines. Along with the mention in the Egyptian history, there have also reportedly been cultural artifacts from that period found in the area also linking that theory of migration/settlement by Mycenaeans. Although a storm god would've likely already been a staple in the area by that point, so I doubt the Mycenaean pantheon would've changed much in regards to that.

@@NefariousKoel I think that George Carlin said it well that we should worship the Sun. Most of our overt energy comes from it. Storms are really the result of the radiance of the Sun as the cause. But then space itself seems to be a void that is jam packed with potential energy. Is this void at a high level of conscious that only non verbal part of the human mind can intuit? Do we misunderstand it and call it the Creator of the Universe? How is possible to be separate from it?

Baal was sometimes identified with YHWH or El and in the Hellenistic time period there was worship of Baal Zeus.

@@stevenv6463 Those were the days when YHWH was having a Baal!

@@edwardvgarrick8748 Isn't Yahweh said to ride cherubs, not clouds?

Agree with you and may I recommend you a book that full of historical evidence called Vain Traditions.

It’s not accurate at all

What is something that would make all believers of Yahweh throw up in the metaphorical sense about everything about him

agree with you on that one

Wow, that’s all I can say. Keeping your religion and history apart testifies of great integrity. I watched this video with great interest and am looking eagerly forward to the second episode.

I don't dictate the history I do my best to be as honest and thorough as I can. I just deeply appreciate everyone coming on the journey with me.

@@TheEsotericaChannel i think we all likewise deeply appreciate your willingness to be a pathfinder 🙏

I'll second that!

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Indeed time tell the world the god is a con man

I swear, that's exactly what I said 😂

I have recently come to this understanding. It’s blown my mind.

You must be a tate fan 😂😂😂

Definitely not better than 8 year olds opening Legos

Not to mention dogs cuddling kittens!@@TheEsotericaChannel

@@nozecone dang you might actually have him with that one. I love deep diving into topics like that. But who doesn't love some cuddling baby animals? Especially across species lines!

You want to know your God "Allah" ( Elohim) Read the Coran "Yahwew" was the god of the people of Sinaï as in egyption papyrus reveal

@@heartsfear9216 thats a troll copypasting for ragebait, I saw the same reply under another comment.

Comments like this makes it so worth it - so many profound and sincere thanks.

I couldn't have put it any better!

Completely agree, this is my favourite corner of this platform and this channel in particular is probably, for my tastes, the single best channel on the entire platform in ANY corner of it.

Best comment ever tops mine, and I comment very well always but very glad you for your comment, we should be putting out other channels more often and viewers and creators for the rest of us. I plan to this on my videos! Shoutout to the channels I follow. Stay tuned…

This has the vibe of a canticle and It made me smile hard. (A very Well earned thanks, of course.)

That got me too! Bravo

Saaaame!

This video completely ignores the Egyptian influence in Judaism.

there is people that were claiming egypt is black because kemet meant dark soil,, i stipulated to them if you going to have that logic than it would also be applied ->to the land of Milk and Honey would be a white Milky-skin with Honey blonde-hair , so the land of milk and honey would have nothing to do with bees and cows or black africans. the land of milk and honey would have everything to do with Milky skin and Honey coloured hair in their own afrocentric logic. the Afrocentric quickly block me and then go on pretending they can have it both ways Black egyptian because of black-land kemet but then ignore the land of white-Milk and yellow-Honey and pretend that means the land of bees an cows?. they cannot handle the truth even when you tell them.

Humans are easily deceived.He is the demon who came out of the burning bush

@@JimObsolete I feel sorry for you, for the world that made you feel this guy is a threat. My wishes you find peace

@@JimObsolete sir, are you a gnostic?

Yes, indeed! And there is a special book that explained paganism, it is called Vain Traditions and back up with historical evidence. You may want to read it!

Agree with you and may I recommend you a book that full of historical evidence called Vain Traditions.

I know!!! El and Yahweh is such a complex, fun, and complicated issue and the fact he sums it up pretty well in 40ish minutes is impressive as hell

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Hebrew version of Joshua 24:14 is another great verse showing that people cannot continue conflating Yahweh with the Elohim. It says to worship Yahweh and put down the Elohim (that are repeatedly mentioned in Genesis).

​@@johnnada9058also the connections between Chemosh/Utu and Elohim further distinguish them from Yahweh.

​@@johnnada9058 these people have ruined and butchered both hebraic meaning of words and Old English sub put down Elohim Elohim means god simply so it says put down weird gods are false gods strange Gods strange Idols that's what it means roughly and EL is male and was adopted to Latin if you look at old Latin classic Latin they don't have that it was adopted from hebraic classic writing but if you cannot find it in the Bible or modern Torah none of these Scholars are actual Hebrews they made up their own religion.

"Bat metal Hands hard Rockin"

Llamas-with-hats vibes.

@@JakeSmith-em5sh That made me think about how progressive religions are becoming. "Showers of blood" "fire" "doom" "Zombie Apocalypse"

@@dannylo5875 progressive? more like regressive.....

@@junglie Wouldn't that imply they were better before?

It can now.🤔

Chat GPT: For example, throughout history, religious beliefs have been used to justify wars, genocide, and other atrocities. In such cases, the use of faith to dictate history can be seen as a betrayal of the values and principles that are supposed to guide religious practice. Furthermore, by allowing faith to dictate history, the accuracy and integrity of historical records may be compromised, leading to a distorted or incomplete understanding of the past. As such, this quote suggests that it is important to separate religious beliefs from the interpretation and recording of historical events to ensure a more accurate and truthful understanding of our collective history.

​@@need2know739 we'll end up making the Borg at some point with this stuff ;)

​@@TheEsotericaChannel you should read the wars of gods and men by zechariah sitchin

It can now

Did ahura Mazda have bearing on the old testament/intertestamental understanding of Satan? For instance...in the way the Greek Pan shaped that entity's physiognomy?

​@@jazmendunham7666 idk but that would certainly be a great subject for a graduate thesis

@@jazmendunham7666 From what I hear actually, yes! The conflict between Ahura Mazda and Ahriman is thought to have influenced the relationship between God and Satan, turning it into more of an adversarial relationship than what it was in Judaism.

Also the notion of dualism (good vs evil), afterlife and linear history toward the final judgement. Zoroastrianism is one of the most influential religion in history.

Nothing sacred about any of these Jewish fairy tales.

@@prestonknodelliii838 how so? These people wrote these things, died for these things such as Jesus Christ whom they claimed they saw and still die to this day and everyday since the death and resurrection of Jesus? Doesn't sound like it to me. Paul changed from a killer and persecutor to the most loving and enriching person all by the hands of Jesus, Moses gave up all the riches and fame he could have had in order to serve the Lord his God in the wilderness for most of his life

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Sun worship and moloch is what the Vatican upon

Wow, you nailed it as a young kid!! Most adults are oblivious or in denial

Yes I always wondered that, first and second testament God have never seem to have anything to do with each other

I've always asked questions too. I grew up Southern Babtist so the switch was waiting on me when I got home. Sometimes the belt, depending on which parent was hitting me.

Thank you for the work you do!

Elaine Pagels is BRILLIANT & William Donahue is right & so is John St. Julien ~ simply amazing 🤗💕

Yahweh is YALDABAOTH -- is a DEMON - a jealous False god - The Demiurge, who created the Archons and the fallen chaotic material multiverse.

Yep anything else is hubris

My favorite section of the Bible is _Samuel_ and _Kings_ (obviously cuz I'm named after it lol). It's an excellent jumping-in point for modern readers that covers the decision to appoint the first king of the Hebrews, how the head of the temple Samuel had a whole bunch of reasons why having a king is a terrible idea but went ahead and appointed one due to pressure from the people, going all the way up to the reign of King David and all the pros and cons that came with that. Samuel / Kings is a straight 4 books of solid narration focused on just a few consistent characters in-depth and why they made the decisions they made. Unlike books like Deuteronomy or even Exodus, the whole David arc holds up really well in terms of readability and narrative focus. Could easily be adapted into some _Game of Thrones_ type drama if you dug into the history around it and fleshed out the enemy factions a little.

It doesn't make any sense. You can't prioritize something over your faith otherwise you don't actually have faith in it.

@@thefool3424 your name is stunningly fitting to your perspective. Do you still believe that we originated from 2 humans?

The bible in general does have this running theme of God being p i s s e d whenever you try to worship anyone except him. There are so many stories that have this hook like of you will be punished if you don't worship god and only god. or bad things will happen to you if you don't worship god. So yeah, to the uninitiated, talking about the polytheistic origins of Judaism is blasphemy. Hopefully you're friend warms up to this. :P

because the bible's God is actually yahweh .An 8th dimentinal being ,A diety .

@@macmoney2043 lol

God says in the Bible that he's a jealous god and that no other shall come before Him.

I don’t think one can market someone as an expert in different religions unless they separate themselves from feelings, instead focusing on facts and the stories that happen around the deities.

And vice versa

​@Mud like what?

I don understand what part of Christianity isn't an attack on science? A half-god redeems us for "Original Sin", which involved Eve accepting a magical fruit from a talking snake. How is this in any way harmonious with science?

@mud6992 dude where have you been for the past decades The fact had been established long back that the sun is not the center of the solar system & the earth does not revolve around it

​@@creativeideas012 not really. Copernicus published his heliocentric theories over a hundred years before Galileo's trial but they were viewed by many as crackpot at best and heretical at worst. To say Galileo was not put on trial by the church for these theories is like saying Galileo never existed, it's a 100% historically false statement to make

I mean it wouldn't really change the fact he is God at least for me it wouldn't

@@jamesblack4411 It should change your perspective on your faith. Given how your god is proven to have once been part of a polytheistic religion and a minor god in that religion. You’re essentially saying “lalalalala, not listening” in a polite way.

It's sad because people can't deal with the _facts don't care about your feelings_ thing when said facts go against their beliefs

@fionn_mac_ribs7113 you can't prioritize something over you faith otherwise you don't actually have faith in it. So the saying doesn't make sense. Faith by definition means to believe in something without proof or evidence.

@@fionn_mac_ribs He was introduced into that pantheon by humans, then has to fight his way out of it. He orders the Asherah poles and images of Baal destroyed, basically destroying the rest of the pantheon as I believe he always intended. None of the actual prophets associate him with these other gods, and in the Bible he clearly makes them his enemies. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me"

It's destroys their narrative as the chosen ones. So you won't hear about it typically.

What do you mean ? Did you not read the Bible ? It starts in Genesis ! There was a whole world before he flooded it … and then the time of Noah until Abraham’s until Israel was many many years… where do you think God went all this time ?

@@andrejones2147 I think he's referring to the more secularly agreed upon history of the word, dealing with "yaweh" in a more anthropological sense, instead of referring to the god of the bible/torah/quran which he may or may not believe in

@andrejones2147 you sound like a goof. Adults are talking about history, hush now.

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Indeed, may I recommend you a book that full of historical evidence called Vain Traditions. Amazing book!

Actually, I study in the historical musicology of Hebrew recitation, and to tell you the truth, a lot of the Hebrew Bible's poetry very well could have sounded like what we call 'Rock' or 'Metal'. We can at best reconstruct tradition-strands of the melodic motion of any given piece, but for Rhythm, we are on much more solid ground. I've successfully decoded the syllable-lengths of most song-poetry corpuses (it's not easy to do completely, because rules for syllable length evolved along with peoples's conception of what constitutes a syllable, and thus the length of vowels and the weight of consonants themselves evolved with the Hebrew language- and so older and newer poetry in the Hebrew Bible are not all as rhythmically even when certain later ways of pronunciation are applied... but most of it does work well when the oldest ways are inferred/reconstructed and applied.) Anyway, yeah. Rhythmically, I mean, there are many songs in the Tanakh that remind me of metal. Psalm 2 reminds me of Power Metal, for example.

That sounds fun! A musical version of Hassid or Hipster. 😊

This is hilarious!

yes

Thanks for watching and the kind words!

Sometimes KZfaq gets it very right💛

Nothing to do with christianism here.....

Agree. Of necessity I accessed my dictionary several times. I'll subscribe. Although I regard religions as silly, the historicity of their origins within unscientific minds, and within the global events of their times, is absolutely riveting. The sub 1% genetic difference between chimpanzees and humankind has wrought some wonderful changes.

@@MrZRecords Christianity literally developed from Judaism this has very thing to do with the development of Christianity 😐

All of it originally stemmed from the allegorical storylines of earliest humans plotting the seasonal changes for the glory of harvest and teaching the celestial maps for community encouragement in the collaborative understanding of farming in pre pagan cultures worldwide- history gives count of dozens of storylines which parallel the structures in the allegorical expression of the night sky. Read the origin of all religious worship. Its solar mythology. Also, humans have developed many times. Pre- OUR historical written records, racism was not in existance, and environmental hysteria was recorded to be catalystic for religious splaying with the warfare of survivalist propagandized power vacuums.

Gross. I ate some of that dessert🙁

Christians still think of Yahweh is kind of a moody and unforgiving badass of a god.

@@ColtraneTaylor That’s Jimi Hendrix. Watching the guy who keeps debunking Jesus makes me want to completely clear my mind of the story of the Israelites. Why do I have any connection to those people. Is it love of God is it fair? God is this guilt. Is there any proof of any of it, maybe there was a guy name, Abraham. Surely they were some characters… And apparently there was a temple or two. But I think that any of it came from “God”… It’s a suspicious is any story about any God at any time any time. I’m a late bloomer.

To further your study, please check this book called Vain Traditions, full of historical evidence.

I agree. Maybe A tad long & yet not long enough for "the heavy" Heavenly- wealth of necessary subject matter #YHWY Arguably 1 of his Best Videos from the few dozen lectures I've absorbed.

Really? Most amazing ever?

@@abaker4692 Well, if we're going to be persnickety about it... Amazement is a subjective experience, and is technically not quantifiable. So, to the me that watched this while high off his ass at 2 am, this WAS the most amazing ever, yes.

As he said himself, there is a lot of content about it. Don't fixate too much on his perspective, although it is a very good one. It is his in the sense that he put it together, but he would not claim credit over it. Learning from his scientific rigor, spread your wings!

@Awoken777 indeed he is

How is that preferable to an academic who does not hold beliefs in he supernatural or pseudoscientific? I find the ability to be irrational in a specific area of life a shortcoming, not a desirable ability.

@@vids595 Please don’t tip your fedora at me. Someone who can put aside their personal beliefs to teach something that conflicts with those beliefs doesn’t have an academic shortcoming, they have academic integrity. If a teacher is a devout Christian but chooses to teach the contradictory theory of evolution without batting an eye or trying to insert their beliefs to the lesson, do those beliefs invalidate their teachings? No. To teach fact, regardless of your feelings or the religion you subscribe to, is real genuine academic integrity. Just because someone has a religion doesn’t mean they can’t also be dedicated to fact. Academic shortcomings would be if that hypothetical teacher, or Esoterica for that matter, were to sit in front of a class and say “oh this is what they say but I know they are wrong because of (insert belief here).” which Esoterica has never done. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

The Darwinian model of evolution does not contradict Christian theology. What it contradicts is creationism - the belief that beings exist now as God created them thousands of years ago. The geologist Charles Lyell, who was a friend of Charles Darwin, presented evidence in his magisterial three-volume work titled Principles of Geology for the understanding that the Earth had to be older than 6,000 years as claimed by the Bible. Thus, scripture was contradicted. The real question here is not “can science be reconciled with theology?” It is really a theological or intellectual conflict between people who adhere to the letter of the law (Christian fundamentalists and creationists in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant Churches) and those who adhere to the spirit or essence of the law, as in the case of German theologians like Thomas Muntzer and Paul Tillich. The reason why Paul Tillich, a 20th century theologian who, like Jacques Ellul, Nikolai Fyodorov, Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdayev, Reinhold Niebuhr, Soren Kierkegaard, Rene Girard, Teilhard de Chardin, Fr. Georges Lemaitre, Sergei Bulgakov, Maria de Naglowska (the 20th century Christian Gnostic, theologian, universalist, humanist, libertarian socialist, and one-time lover of Julius Evola, the right-wing reactionary Italian scholar and self-described “Pagan Traditionalist”), is never brought up in theological debates or intellectual debates between Christian apologists and atheists or humanists is because the tradition of exegesis or biblical hermeneutics is something most people who are anti-religious don’t give a rat’s ass about; thus it becomes impossible for them to see how any theologian could suggest, as Paul Tillich did, that “there is a latent spiritual community” in the Pagan philosophers and the Pagan mystery cults, and in Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism as well. Paul Tillich authored Christian apologetics but he saw other religions and cultures as having some inherent worth and dignity and pushed for religious socialism. Almost all of the Christian theologians I mentioned above were defenders of Christian socialism as a theological or intellectual stance. Yet if you only pay attention to the loudest and most vocal of Christian theologians, you’ll only get the ones on the Christian right. You won’t get to hear what David Bentley Hart, an Eastern Orthodox Christian and philosopher has to say about the nature of the divine or the existence of God. Another Christian socialist (David Bentley Hart is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America). The statement “I don’t have to be a scholar” is going to turn the younger generations into dim witted imbeciles like Richard Dawkins. Dawkins is a biologist and a scientist, not a theologian. Yet he takes every consideration of sacred scriptures as literal renderings of scripture. The Homeric literature did not, in fact, have the Pagan philosophers and the Pagan mystery cults to interpret the Homeric literature - no, only the books in-and-of themselves communicate what it is that Pagans actually believed and practiced. This approach to the study of theology or religion ignores the academic research in theological studies or intellectual studies more generally, which give us new insights into the nature of reality and thus reflect upon our interpretation of sacred scriptures. The statement that all theological or “supernatural” beliefs are irrational is neither offensive nor an argument which has convinced me to give up my own Pagan or occult religious beliefs. That is because I consider the mystical and the sacred as relating to certain universal and objective moral truths which can rightly be considered divinely-inspired, inasmuch as God - from a philosophical or an intellectual standpoint - is the metaphysical groundwork of all being, ontologically speaking. Thus I do not need a dogmatic theology or a formal dogmatic religion to arrive at this Truth - it is metaphysically True inasmuch as it combines reason and faith into a harmonious whole. The rational intellect must be merged with the believing heart that beats for its Gods and for the experience of initiation into their sacred mysteries or sacraments. In our tradition, the Gods are all aspects of one Godhead, and an individual takes one of the deities and devotes his worship to it and its sacred mysteries as his God, or as the supreme personality of God from among the various deities. Given that my philosophical or intellectual positions are based in a metaphysics of objective idealism, or the belief that reality is essentially mental in nature, it is very easy for me to believe in a personal God from a more classical theistic perspective: one who absolutely does interact with us through our intuition and through the practice of prayer, ritual, personal sacrifice, initiation, and contemplation (or meditation). The pursuit of knowledge and culture and the cultivation of the soul or mind as the essential nature of man (his eternal, unchanging, True Self) being the central aim of our religious observance, it is necessary to break free from the chains of eternally unchanging theological dogmas and religious laws that are intent on keeping man from attaining to his Higher Self or individuality by teaching him to believe in “reverence for the ancient law” and “the fear of God.” (which is not only the beginning of wisdom for religious fundamentalists but the end of the cultivation of any kind of wisdom). The attempt by Abrahamic religious fundamentalisms to hobble everything that is beautiful and strong through adherence to an uncritical reading of the Five Books of Moses and the Qur’an is an approach to the study of scripture that is diametrically opposed to the experience of initiation into a set of sacred mysteries that the religions and cultures of the world - through their differences of opinion about Truth - are supposed to teach, enlighten, and liberate. While conservative and modernist interpretations of religious belief both have their merit, there is quite literally no pedagogical or educational value to the theology, legalism, or authoritarian religion that has been pursued so assiduously by the “Christian right.”

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@@duhmitryov you have described compartmentalization. And cognitive dissonance. Hardly anything virtuous about that.

would it not be possible for both religiosity and historicity to coincide? the whole reason i even came to have a faith is because of historicity itself i dont think they are dependent the most definitely can coincide.

If historicity led you to faith,@@REXSPYMC​, then you aren't treating facts as a threat to faith, are you?

When the controllers adopt this BS and parade it around the world using vile acts death, in conjunction with depraved torture methods in order to force belief, it's easy to see how it's influenced the world.

When you use vile acts of torture and murder in order to force belief, it's easy to see how it's influenced the world.

You can do it - everyone can do it with hard work. You deserve the knowledge !

Yes, I would love a whole series on the topic. 😊

Occultism gets rid of fear or your ego.

Same here! I was raised a JW, but broke free and now I'm an omnist pagan with strong Celtic influences. Leaving JW was one of the best things I ever did! Best of wishes to you and your journey outside of the cult!

​@@TobiasR-bw6yyyou should follow the pagan tradition of converting to Christianity

@@canaryinacoalmine1759 No thanks. I prefer to keep the tradition of never converting even in the face of death :) I'm very proud of my beliefs and culture. (I was adopted by JW christians actually, but went back to paganism when I got out of their cult) The way I like to view it, this was a test of my strength of soul. The JWs may have stolen me, but I broke free and found my way back to both my roots and what I have found through my personal spiritual journey. They actually tried with my grandmother as well, and unfortunately with her they succeeded. But she has since passed, and now I know she knows it was bullshit, and sometimes I can feel her giving me courage and strength. The JWs and my family have a lengthy, heated history. Them trying to convert us, us refusing, some being tricked, some being tricked and coming back. Just alot of back and forth shit. But regardless, the bloodline and culture has remained unbroken. And I am proud to be apart of it!

@@TobiasR-bw6yy then you will also keep the tradition of going to hell. Jesus Christ is the ONLY way.

@canaryinacoalmine1759 lol bro still on xbox 360?

I think the Roman Briton analogy is nicely apt.

"For God so loved the world.." "Who is my brother, sister but those who do as I say .." Pretty plain all are Chosen and with our free will we are able to chose our Father of love, mercy and forgiveness.

True... Once the 3rd Dimension connects or the Outer Reaches is breached by the others from beyond the Stars... Mankind will shatter in more ways than one. Both religiously in all ways and physically in all ways. As a world civilization and law of each era.

@@absolstoryoffiction6615 not what i meant but go off

@calarthur96 You will be one with the Q, and you will not resist. All hail the Q. The Progenitor of Life and Xodzrygshir the First Lement.

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If a god requires a supportive culture to sustain his life, then he's not God. A true God is self-sustaining and not reliant on anything else.

When it comes to topics like this, it’s best not to make any assumptions like this. You are naive about the nature of our existence.

@@urbandesitv3529 would you be willing to state what the acedemic consensus on this topic is, or direct people towards that information? I don't know where else to look and top search results seem to largely agree with this video. How else would I know if you're not just echoing from your own chamber?

@@urbandesitv3529 sorry all I can find online is Yaweh being considered an early storm and war god. I found some suggestions that it may have been a desert or even a volcano god. If there are other theories they don't appear very mainstream if search results are any indication.

@@CalebBification So Yahweh is the storm and war god .. look around .. wars and our President saying "the Storm is coming" .. the god of this world, the one most called upon is Yahweh. This all seems to mesh together as the answer to the problems we face in this world. Our True Creator is loving, merciful, and forgiving. We are to call Him Father. If we are loving, merciful, and forgiving we Know His Truth.

Are you US Evangelian? If not, you could be.

​​​​@@lowersaxonlly they sound the furthest thing from a US evangelical. Sounds more like how Jews,🎉 Catholics and mainline Protestants accept stuff like astrophysics and evolution as methods of God and that God chose to speak to ppl in ways they'd grasp at the time. US Evangelicals tend to be literalists who can't accept any sort of diversity in message or method and refuse to accept basic science.

​@@lowersaxonthat's not evangelical at all.